Kamil Ahmad – The Lives of the Sahabiyyat – 15 – Ruqayyah bint Muhammad RA

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The importance of Islam in helping people achieve their spiritual goals is highlighted, along with its teachings and its conflict of interest between people and religion. The Prophet's teachings are discussed, including his teachings about his wife and children, as well as his teachings about a woman named Umm Jameel and her death. The Prophet's death is also highlighted as a sad loss for her family, as she lost her love for her and was the first of her children to pass away inly�.

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			In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious,
		
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			the Most Merciful.
		
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			All praise is due to Allah, Lord of
		
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			the worlds.
		
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			All praise is due to Allah, the Most
		
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			Gracious, the Most Merciful.
		
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			As our Lord loves and is pleased with.
		
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			And peace and blessings be upon the best
		
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			of Allah's creation.
		
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			And upon his family, his companions and those
		
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			who are guided by his guidance.
		
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			And he waited by his Sunnah until the
		
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			Day of Recompense.
		
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			O Allah, teach us what will benefit us.
		
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			And benefit us with what you have taught
		
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			us.
		
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			And increase us in knowledge.
		
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			And show us the truth as the truth.
		
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			And grant us to follow it.
		
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			And show us falsehood as falsehood.
		
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			And grant us to avoid it.
		
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			And make us of those who listen to
		
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			the word and follow the best of it.
		
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			As-salamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh.
		
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			We continue on with the lives of the
		
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			sahabiyat.
		
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			The female companions of the Prophet ﷺ.
		
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			And we were on the daughters of the
		
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			Prophet ﷺ.
		
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			And so last time we spoke about the
		
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			eldest daughter of Rasulullah ﷺ.
		
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			And that was Zaynab.
		
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			We now move on to the second daughter
		
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			of the Prophet ﷺ after Zaynab.
		
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			And she was Ruqayyah.
		
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			And so Ruqayyah just like her sister Zaynab.
		
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			She was brought up in the household of
		
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			Rasulullah ﷺ before the Prophethood.
		
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			Before the Prophethood.
		
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			And sometime before the Prophethood.
		
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			Rasulullah ﷺ married two of his daughters.
		
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			Ruqayyah and Umm Kalthum.
		
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			He married both of them to two of
		
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			his nephews.
		
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			Who were brothers.
		
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			And they were the sons of his uncle
		
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			Abu Lahab.
		
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			And so Ruqayyah she married Utbah ibn Abi
		
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			Lahab.
		
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			Utbah ibn Abi Lahab.
		
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			When Rasulullah ﷺ first received the revelation from
		
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			Allah at the age of 40.
		
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			His wife as we know Khadija ﷺ was
		
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			among the first to follow him, to believe
		
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			him.
		
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			And his daughters they followed her lead.
		
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			They also embraced Islam right from the very
		
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			beginning.
		
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			Including Ruqayyah.
		
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			Now initially the Prophet ﷺ was not giving
		
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			da'wah publicly.
		
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			He was teaching and inviting people to Islam
		
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			privately.
		
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			But eventually Allah commanded Rasulullah ﷺ to start
		
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			giving da'wah publicly.
		
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			Starting with his close family and relatives.
		
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			So he went and he stood on Mount
		
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			Safa.
		
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			And he called on the leaders of Quraysh.
		
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			Including all of his uncles.
		
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			And so everyone who heard the Prophet ﷺ
		
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			ran towards the source of the voice.
		
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			And even the ones who could not go
		
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			they sent someone, a representative who would report
		
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			back to them.
		
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			Because the way the Prophet ﷺ called out
		
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			it sounded like something very very important.
		
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			So when everyone gathered Rasulullah ﷺ asked them.
		
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			If I tell you that there is an
		
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			army behind this mountain.
		
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			That is about to ambush you.
		
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			That is about to attack you.
		
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			Would you believe me?
		
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			They said, of course.
		
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			We have never heard you ever telling a
		
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			lie.
		
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			Rasulullah ﷺ said, in that case I am
		
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			here to warn you of a severe punishment.
		
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			That will befall you if you don't believe.
		
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			And so this is how the Prophet ﷺ
		
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			started his da'wah publicly to his people.
		
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			Now when the Prophet ﷺ called everyone.
		
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			As I said they came thinking it was
		
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			something urgent and important.
		
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			And it obviously was.
		
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			But for some people when they heard that
		
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			this is why the Prophet ﷺ called them.
		
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			They were upset.
		
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			And the most notable of these people was
		
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			Abu Lahab.
		
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			The uncle of the Prophet ﷺ.
		
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			So when he heard this, when he heard
		
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			what the Prophet ﷺ had to say.
		
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			What was his response?
		
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			He said.
		
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			تَبَّن لَكَ سَائِرَ الْيَوْمِ Abu Lahab said to
		
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			the Prophet ﷺ.
		
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			May evil befall you for the rest of
		
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			your day.
		
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			Is this why you called us?
		
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			And so Abu Lahab, he was a businessman.
		
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			And he had to leave his work and
		
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			his business.
		
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			And the Prophet ﷺ is telling them about
		
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			Allah.
		
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			And about the hellfire and the punishment.
		
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			And so for him this was not important.
		
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			Like many people today.
		
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			Even many Muslims if you tell them.
		
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			Come let's attend a lecture.
		
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			Or do something beneficial for our Deen.
		
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			They say I don't have time for that.
		
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			Anyways, when Abu Lahab said this.
		
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			This is when Allah revealed Surah Al-Masad.
		
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			تَبَّتْ يَدَى أَبِي لَهَبٍ وَتَبَّ May the hands
		
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			of Abu Lahab perish.
		
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			مَا أَغْنَى عَنْهُ مَالُهُ وَمَا كَسَبْ And may
		
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			he himself perish.
		
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			Neither his wealth nor his worldly gains will
		
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			benefit him.
		
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			Notice how Allah is telling him.
		
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			That his wealth that he cares so much
		
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			about.
		
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			His business is not gonna benefit him.
		
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			سَيَصْلَ نَارٌ ذَا تَلَهَبْ He will burn in
		
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			a flaming fire.
		
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			And then Allah speaks about his wife as
		
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			well, Umm Jameel.
		
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			Who's also gonna be in the hellfire.
		
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			Why?
		
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			Because these two, Abu Lahab and his wife.
		
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			From this day onwards, they would become among
		
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			the fiercest enemies of the Prophet ﷺ.
		
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			And so one of the first steps that
		
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			Abu Lahab took, both he and his wife.
		
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			One of the first steps that they took
		
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			to harm Rasool Allah ﷺ was to have
		
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			both of his sons to divorce the daughters
		
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			of Rasool Allah ﷺ.
		
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			We mentioned that before the Prophethood, Muhammad ﷺ
		
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			married his two daughters to the two sons
		
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			of Abu Lahab.
		
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			And now there's a conflict of interest.
		
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			And here you have ayat being revealed about
		
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			Abu Lahab.
		
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			And how he's gonna be in the hellfire.
		
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			And so he goes to his sons, and
		
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			he tells them that if they don't divorce
		
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			their wives, he's never gonna speak to them
		
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			ever again.
		
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			So he went to his son Utbah, and
		
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			he told him to divorce his wife Ruqayyah.
		
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			And in exchange, he would marry him to
		
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			the daughter of one of the notables of
		
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			Quraysh, the daughter of Sa'id ibn al-'As.
		
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			So Utbah, he readily obeyed his father, and
		
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			he divorced Ruqayyah.
		
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			But guess what?
		
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			Although they thought that they would be harming
		
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			Rasool Allah ﷺ and his daughter Ruqayyah, Allah
		
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			had better plans for her.
		
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			And so soon after that, Rasool Allah ﷺ
		
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			married Ruqayyah to one of the first to
		
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			accept Islam, a nobleman from Quraysh, a rich
		
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			businessman, one of the pious, righteous men of
		
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			the Sahaba, Uthman ibn Affan ﷺ, who would
		
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			go on to become one of the four
		
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			Khulafa ar-Rashideen after Rasool Allah ﷺ.
		
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			And so look at how Allah replaces for
		
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			His righteous servants what is far better than
		
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			what they may lose in this dunya.
		
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			And that is a promise of Allah, as
		
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			the Prophet ﷺ says, مَنْ تَرَكَ شَيْءًۭا لِلَّهِ
		
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			عَوَّضَهُ خَيْرًۭا مِّنْ That whoever abandons something for
		
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			the sake of Allah, Allah will replace it
		
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			with something far better.
		
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			And we have in the story of Umm
		
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			Salama, where the Prophet ﷺ told her to
		
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			say this dua, when she lost her husband
		
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			who was very dear to her, he taught
		
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			her a dua to say, and this is
		
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			a dua we should say whenever a calamity
		
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			befalls us, whenever we lose something, to say,
		
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			Oh Allah, replace that with something far better.
		
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			Replace that which I lost with something far
		
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			better.
		
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			And so without a doubt, Uthman ibn Affan
		
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			r.a, this great noble companion, is far
		
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			better than the husband who Ruqayya had initially,
		
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			the Kafir, and the son of the enemy
		
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			of Allah and His Messenger, Utbah ibn Abi
		
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			Lahab.
		
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			And so the two of them got married,
		
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			Ruqayya got married to Uthman r.a, and
		
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			they lived for the next several years in
		
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			Mecca, as the persecution of the Kuffar of
		
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			Quraysh gradually started to increase on the Muslims.
		
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			It increased until it reached intolerable levels.
		
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			And when that happened, Rasulullah ﷺ gave orders
		
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			for some of the companions who were able
		
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			to, that they should make hijrah to the
		
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			land of Al-Habashah, to Abyssinia.
		
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			And so the Prophet ﷺ told them that
		
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			there is a very just, pious king, and
		
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			here he's referring to Al-Najashi.
		
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			The Prophet ﷺ said that there is a
		
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			very pious, just king, and no one is
		
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			ever oppressed or wronged in his land, so
		
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			go to him, go live over there.
		
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			And so among the very first migrants, among
		
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			the very first to make hijrah was Uthman
		
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			and his wife Ruqayya.
		
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			And so it wasn't easy leaving their homeland,
		
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			and in the case of Ruqayya, leaving her
		
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			father who is the messenger of Allah ﷺ,
		
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			but it was a sacrifice that they were
		
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			willing to make for the sake of Allah
		
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			and for the sake of their deen.
		
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			There in Abyssinia, Allah blessed them with a
		
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			baby boy who they named Abdullah.
		
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			So one of the first grandchildren of the
		
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			Prophet ﷺ was this son of Ruqayya, which
		
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			he named Abdullah, and that is why Ruqayya
		
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			became known by her kunya of Umm Abdullah.
		
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			However, this son of theirs, he would pass
		
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			away later on at the age of six
		
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			in Medina, and Ruqayya had no other children
		
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			after him.
		
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			So this was the only child that she
		
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			had.
		
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			Later on, Ruqayya returns to Mecca with her
		
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			husband, and this was after the tenth year
		
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			of the hijrah, or the tenth year of
		
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			the Prophethood.
		
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			She returns with her husband to Mecca to
		
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			receive the shocking news of her mother's death.
		
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			And so Khadijah passed away in the tenth
		
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			year of the Prophethood.
		
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			Then a few years later, Allah gave permission
		
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			for the Muslims to migrate once again.
		
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			In fact, this was an obligation on everyone
		
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			to migrate, to leave Mecca and migrate to
		
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			Medina.
		
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			And Uthman, he migrated, and Ruqayya joined him
		
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			later.
		
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			As such, Ruqayya radiAllahu anha, among the daughters
		
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			of the Prophet ﷺ, she had the honor
		
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			of being among those who made the two
		
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			hijras.
		
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			The first hijra to Abyssinia, and the second
		
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			hijra to Medina.
		
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			Then in Ramadan of the second year of
		
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			the hijra, Ruqayya, she fell extremely ill.
		
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			And it was at this same time that
		
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			the great battle of Badr was about to
		
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			take place, in Ramadan of the second year
		
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			of the hijra.
		
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			And so this was the first time that
		
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			the Muslims would face off against their enemy.
		
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			And it was a very decisive battle, as
		
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			Allah calls it in the Qur'an, the
		
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			day of Al-Furqan, Yawm Al-Furqan, the
		
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			day of the great decision and the great
		
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			criterion.
		
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			Almost all the early Muslims participated in this
		
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			battle, and virtually none of them missed out.
		
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			As soon as the Prophet ﷺ announced that
		
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			we're going out, we're going out to intercept
		
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			the caravan of Abu Sufyan, he told whoever
		
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			was able to get ready quickly and come,
		
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			that he's leaving right now, and whoever is
		
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			not able to, that's it, he's going to
		
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			miss out.
		
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			And Uthman ibn Affan, he started preparing himself
		
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			for the battle.
		
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			And just like everyone else, he was getting
		
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			ready, but when Rasulullah ﷺ saw him, he
		
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			asked him not to join them, and instead
		
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			to stay with Ruqayya to take care of
		
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			her.
		
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			She was extremely ill, and there was no
		
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			one to look after her.
		
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			And that's why Rasulullah ﷺ, after the battle
		
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			of Badr, he set aside a share of
		
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			the ghanima, a share of the spoils of
		
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			the war, for Uthman, even though he did
		
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			not participate.
		
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			As we know in jihad, when the Muslims
		
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			are victorious, and they win all of these
		
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			ghanaim, the spoils of war, the booty of
		
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			war, those who are rewarded with it, they
		
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			are the fighters, not anyone who did not
		
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			participate.
		
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			But the Prophet ﷺ set aside a share
		
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			for Uthman.
		
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			Why?
		
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			Because the only reason Uthman did not have
		
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			the honor of participating in that battle, was
		
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			because of the orders of the Prophet ﷺ.
		
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			And there was not a single battle that
		
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			he missed after that, with the Prophet ﷺ.
		
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			Now, after the Muslims left Medina for Badr,
		
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			with the Prophet ﷺ, back in Medina, Ruqayya,
		
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			her illness, became more severe, and she eventually
		
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			passed away.
		
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			And so this was heartbreaking for Uthman ﷺ.
		
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			Not only did he miss out on the
		
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			battle, this very decisive battle, the most important
		
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			battle in the history of Islam, but he
		
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			also loses his wife.
		
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			And so, although it was a very difficult
		
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			day for him, he prayed her janazah and
		
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			he buried her.
		
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			And then Rasulullah ﷺ, who was victorious in
		
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			the battle of Badr, he sent Zaid ibn
		
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			Harithah to rush to Medina to deliver the
		
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			good news of the victory.
		
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			And so, this brought some joy to Uthman
		
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			ﷺ, but obviously, what overshadowed it was the
		
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			death of his beloved wife, Ruqayya.
		
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			Then when Rasulullah ﷺ arrived with the army,
		
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			he was saddened to receive this news of
		
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			the death of his daughter.
		
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			And this was his very first daughter to
		
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			pass away.
		
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			From among his four daughters, Ruqayya was the
		
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			first to pass away.
		
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			And she was his first child to pass
		
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			away in adulthood.
		
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			As we know, the Prophet ﷺ lost his
		
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			sons while they were young, and it was
		
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			only his daughters who lived until they became
		
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			adults, and Ruqayya was the first of them
		
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			to pass away in adulthood.
		
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			And so, he went to her grave and
		
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			he prayed for her.
		
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			And so, this was the life of Ruqayya
		
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			ﷺ.
		
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			And this is all we know of her
		
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			life, due to the simple fact that, as
		
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			you can see, she didn't live that long.
		
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			But as we can see, even though her
		
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			name is not mentioned as much among the
		
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			sahabiyyat, we don't know much about her, there
		
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			are not that many narrations or ahadith mentioning
		
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			her.
		
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			Whatever little we have learned from the life
		
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			of Ruqayya, we can learn themes of faith
		
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			and sacrifice and perseverance, all for the sake
		
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			of Allah and this deen.
		
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			Even from whatever little we've learned from her
		
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			life, we can see all of these lessons
		
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			from her life.
		
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			And so, every single Muslimah should learn something
		
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			from the life of Ruqayya, and how Allah
		
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			tests us, but we need to persevere patiently
		
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			through these tests, and when we do, Allah
		
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			rewards us, and He rewards us greatly.
		
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			It's all a matter of patience and taqwa.
		
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			As Allah says, وَمَن يَتَّقِ اللَّهَ يَجْعَلْ لَهُ
		
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			مَخْرَجًا Whoever has the taqwa of Allah, Allah
		
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			will make a way out for him, meaning
		
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			out of every difficulty.
		
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			وَيَرُزُقْهُ مِنْ حَيْثُ لَا يَحْتَسِبُ And He will
		
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			provide for him from ways that he never
		
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			imagined.
		
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			وَمَن يَتَوَكَّلْ عَلَى اللَّهِ فَهُوَ حَسْبُهُ And whoever
		
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			puts their trust in Allah, then He is
		
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			sufficient for them.
		
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			And Allah says, وَمَن يَتَّقِ اللَّهَ يَجْعَلْ لَهُ
		
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			مِنْ أَمْرِهِ يُسْرًا And whoever has the taqwa
		
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			of Allah, Allah will make his affairs easy
		
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			for him.
		
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			And so if you're going through a rough
		
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			time in your life, turn to Allah and
		
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			maintain that strong bond with Allah instead of
		
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			doing what a lot of other people do,
		
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			where they resort to other ways of relieving
		
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			them of whatever distress they're going through, instead
		
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			of turning to Allah.
		
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			Instead of turning to Allah subhanahu wa ta
		
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			'ala.
		
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			And so this is all we have about
		
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			Ruqayya radiallahu anha.
		
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			Insha'Allah next week we'll move on to
		
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			the next daughter of Rasool Allah ﷺ, and
		
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			that is Umm Kulthum radiallahu ta'ala, عَنْهَا
		
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			وَأَرْضَهَا سُبْحَانَكَ اللَّهُمَّ وَبِحَمْدِكَ أَشْهَدُ وَلَّا إِلَٰهَ إِلَّا
		
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			أَنتَ أَسْتَغْفِرُكَ وَأَتُوبُ إِلَيْكَ وَصَلِّ اللَّهُمَّ وَسَلِّمْ عَلَى
		
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			نَبِيِّنَا مُحَمَّدٍ وَعَلَى آلِهِ وَصَحْبِهِ أَجْمَعِينَ وَالسَّلَامُ
		
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			عَلَيْكُمْ وَرَحْمَةُ اللَّهِ وَبَرَكَاتُهُ