Mirza Yawar Baig – Sahaba The Gold Standard – Khadija #12
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The speaker discusses the importance of being a woman in the same place as the mother of one of the speaker's children, as well as the marriage of the mother to a man named Atiq Khadija and the birth of a daughter named Connah. They also discuss the history of the Bible and the origins of the Bible's teachings, as well as the struggles of the Qworkah culture and its impact on society. The speaker also mentions Jibreel A.S.'s contribution to Islam and its total obedience to Allah's subhanahu wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa
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Bismillah ar-Rahman ar-Rahim, Alhamdulillahi Rabbil Alameen,
wa salatu wa salamu ala ashrafil anbiya wal
mursaleen, Muhammadur Rasulullahi sallallahu alayhi wa ala alihi
wa sahbihi wa sallam, tasliman kathiran kathira, fama
ba'du.
My brothers and sisters, we are in our
lesson on the Sahaba, the gold standard, and
I thought I'd speak to you a little
bit about some of the greatest of them.
Ridwanullahi alayhi majmain, may Allah be pleased, and
Allah was pleased with all of them, and
may Allah continue to be pleased with them.
And that is the best of the best,
our mother Khadija bint Khuwailid Khadijatul Kubara radiyallahu
anhu.
So let me introduce my mother and your
mother to you, because Allah subhanahu wa ta
'ala called the Azwajatul Mutaharat, the wives of
Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, he said these
are Ummahatul Mu'mineen, these are the mothers of
the believers.
And the first of them is his wife,
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, his wife radiyallahu anhu,
Khadija bint Khuwailid.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala mentioned, as I
told you, an-nabiyu awlaa bil mu'mineena min
anfusihim wa azwajuhu ummahatuhum.
Allah said the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam
is closer to the believers than their own
selves.
Now see the way in which Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala describes the love that the
Sahaba had for Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam,
he said they love him more than they
love themselves.
He said he's closer to them than their
own selves and this is a criterion, it's
a meter, it's a framework for us to
see where we are with regard to that.
If they loved him sallallahu alayhi wa sallam
more than they loved themselves and Allah is
the witness for that.
Allah is saying an-nabiyu awlaa bil mu'mineena
min anfusihim.
Allah said the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam
is closer to the believers than their own
selves.
Now Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is mentioning
this very clearly and therefore it is something
for us to reflect and say am I
in the same place because we are supposed
to be mu'mineen, we are supposed to be
believers and if the criterion of being a
believer is that for you, the Nabi is
dearer to you than yourself, then am I
there?
I want to ask myself this question and
I ask you to ask yourself this question
and then Allah continues and says and his
wives are their mothers.
So it is not just a matter of
saying being respectful, Allah is saying with respect
also to marriage which is why even though
in Islam widows are permitted to remarry and
it's encouraged that they do that but with
the wives of the Rasul sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam, they were prohibited from marrying after he
passed away and Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
said because they are the mothers of the
believers and obviously therefore marrying a wife of
the Rasul sallallahu alayhi wa sallam would have
been haram.
I remind myself and you that the relationships
of this world including our blood relationships end
with this life and those we were related
to and lived for and worked for and
would have died for at least we tell
ourselves that will put us into a hole
in the ground and walk away.
But the relationships that Allah subhanahu wa ta
'ala created for us, our relationship with him
as Rabbul Alameen, as Rabbana, as Rabbi, as
our Rabb and my Rabb, our relationship with
Rasul sallallahu alayhi wa sallam as our Nabi,
as our Rasul, as our Imam, as the
one we follow, as the one we try
to emulate, we make his Ittiba and we
make his Itaat, this will remain with us
after we die and will be with us
when we are raised again on the Day
of Judgment.
When we are raised again on the Day
of Judgment, we will be raised as the
Ummat of Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam.
We will not be raised as in any
worldly sense that we may have belonged to.
We are speaking about the first wife of
Rasul sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, her name was
as I mentioned before Khadija bin Khuwailid, she
was the wife of Rasul sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam and the first mother of the believers,
Ummul Mu'mineen, the title given by Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala to all the wives of
Rasul sallallahu alayhi wa sallam.
Khadija married three times and had children from
all her marriages.
While the order of her marriages is debated
as to who was first, it is generally
believed that she first married a man called
Abu Hala, Malak Ibn Nabash, Ibn Zarara, Ibn
Al-Tamimi and the second was Atiq Ibn
A'id Ibn Abdullah Al-Maghzumi.
Both the Tamimi and the Maghzumi were very
big and powerful clans.
To her first husband she bore two sons
who were both given what were usually feminine
names Hala and Hind.
Abu Hala Malak died before his business became
a success.
To her husband Atiq Khadija bore a daughter
named Hind.
This marriage also left Khadija a widow because
her husband Atiq died and left her as
a widow.
Khadija became a very successful businesswoman, successful merchant.
It is said that when the Quraish's trade
caravans gathered to embark upon their summer journey
to Syria, to Sham and the winter journey
to Yemen, which Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
mentioned in the Quran, Khadija's caravan
equaled the caravans of all the other traders
of Quraish put together.
Now that gives you an idea about the
level of her wealth.
She was known by many honorifics, many names
of honor.
One was Ameerat Quraish, the princess of Quraish,
At-Tahira, the pure one and Khadija Al
-Kubra, Khadija the Great.
It is said that she fed and clothed
the poor, assisted her relatives financially and provided
marriage portions for poor relatives.
She was therefore not just wealthy, which today
we find there are lots of people in
the world who are wealthy, but who are
not generous.
Their money is sitting in their hearts.
Whereas in her case, she was generous to
a fault.
She was very, very generous and no one
who came to her door ever left empty
-handed.
Khadija neither believed in nor worshipped idols.
So she was pure also in a spiritual
sense that even though the Quraish were idolaters
and idol worshippers and Khadija was from the
Quraish, but she was one of the few
like Abu Bakr as-Siddiq, for example, who
did not worship idols and did not believe
in idols.
Khadija did not travel with her trade caravans.
Obviously in those days for a woman, a
single woman to travel with a trade caravan
was dangerous, was hazardous because these trade caravans
were very often preyed upon.
They were very often attacked by bandits and
so therefore she did not travel with her
trade caravans.
She employed agents to trade on her behalf
for a commission and the agent would take
the caravan and would trade and bring it
back and then he would earn a commission
on that basis.
In 595 CE, Khadija was in need of
an agent for a caravan that was going
to Sham.
Now Abu Talib ibn Abdul Muttalib recommended her
distant cousin Muhammad bin Abdullah.
So therefore it shows us also that Khadija
was also related through the Quraish clan system
with the Banu Abdul Muttalib, the children of
Abdul Muttalib and the Banu Hashim to which
part or sub-part of the clan Rasulullah
sallallahu alaihi wasallam belonged to.
The experience that Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wasallam held
working with caravans in his uncle Abu Talib's
family business had earned him the honorific titles
of As-Sadiq and Al-Amin.
He used to take the caravans of his
uncle and do some trading on his uncle's
behalf and the way he did that, he
got these titles As-Sadiq, the truthful and
Al-Amin, the trustworthy or honest.
So this was a very good recommendation and
Khadija hired Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wasallam who was
25 years old.
She hired him to be her agent to
take this caravan to Sham.
Now think about that in today's world where
we have you know so-called children still
living with their parents and extending their ever
present empty hands in front of their fathers
for every little thing they want.
This is the result of our current modern
day education system which only delays childhood and
postpones maturity in the time of Rasulullah sallallahu
alaihi wasallam.
And even in today's time if you look
at places, countries where people are not wealthy,
where people are, the economy is more agrarian,
people work on farms and so on, children
grow up very fast.
Children you know they learn to work and
they learn to earn and so on very
quickly in their lives and even with parents
who have the wisdom to do proper parenting,
not trying to outsource the parenting to the
masjid or the imam or the day care
center or whoever, parents who take parenting seriously,
you will find that they will have children
who are who learn fast and who are
mature at an early age unlike others.
So Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wasallam at the age
of 25 and he didn't start there.
He started much earlier than 25 because by
the time he was recommended to Khadija Abdel
Anha by his uncle, Abu Talib, he was
already experienced in trading, taking these caravans, literally
thousands of kilometers north and south, being responsible
for that, being responsible for the goods, you
know the whole gamut of all that it
takes to take this responsibility and be responsible
for literally millions of dollars in today's terms
of goods and trading them and doing that
with wisdom, with smartness and with integrity.
Khadija Abdel Anha at that time when she
hired Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wasallam to be her
agent, she was 40 years old and Rasulullah
sallallahu alaihi wasallam was 25.
She sent one of her servants, a man
by the name of Mysara to assist him,
to be with him and she gave Mysara
the responsibility and said, watch him carefully and
take notes and report back.
So when Mysara came back and gave accounts
of the honorable way that Muhammad sallallahu alaihi
wasallam had conducted his business with the result
that he brought back twice as much profit
as Khadija Abdel Anha had expected, Khadija Abdel
Anha was obviously very impressed.
Mysara also narrated that on the return journey
Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wasallam stopped to rest under
a tree.
A monk, a Nestorian monk who, you know,
the Christians had this set called Nestorians.
So this Nestorian monk was there.
He said to Mysara, none but a prophet
ever sat beneath that tree.
Now Mysara also claimed that while he stood
near Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wasallam as he slept
he had seen two angels standing above Muhammad
sallallahu alaihi wasallam creating a cloud to protect
him from the heat and glare of the
sun.
Khadija Abdel Anha then consulted her cousin, a
man called Waraqa bin Nawfal bin Asad Ibn
Abdul Uzza Abdel Anha who later became Muslim
and Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wasallam made dua for
his forgiveness.
He comes, when you read the Seerah, Waraqa
bin Nawfal is the man that Khadija Abdel
Anha took Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wasallam to when
he first received Wahi and when he first
saw Jibreel A.S. and he was very
afraid of that particular experience.
He was very afraid in that experience.
Waraqa bin Nawfal, he was a Christian monk,
probably also a historian, and he spent time
alone.
He lived by himself, lived alone and he
used to study the scriptures and he would
write the scriptures and so on and so
forth.
He was a very holy, pious man who
spent all his time in the Zikr of
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
So she went to Waraqa bin Nawfal and
told him this story.
She said this is what my servant Maisarah
is reporting about Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wasallam who
was my agent.
Now Waraqa said that if what Maisarah had
seen was true, that is, that means if
Maisarah was not, was speaking the truth, then
Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wasallam was in fact the
prophet of the people who was already expected.
So he said that in the scriptures he
has been mentioned, he is expected and this
is the man.
Khadijah reported that she had a dream in
which the sun descended from the sky into
her courtyard brilliantly illuminating her home.
Her cousin again, she went to Waraqa bin
Nawfal for to have the dream interpreted and
he told her not to be alarmed for
the sun was an indication that the prophet
sallallahu alaihi wasallam would grace her home.
At this Khadijah r.a considered proposing marriage
to Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wasallam.
Now many wealthy Qurayshi men had already asked
for her hand in marriage but she had
refused all of them.
Obviously she was a, she is supposed to
have been a very beautiful woman.
She was very wealthy and she came from
a very honored lineage.
So obviously people were interested in marrying her.
Now she married Nabi sallallahu alaihi wasallam.
They had six children.
At-Tawari names eight but most sources identify
only six.
Their first son was Qasim and that is
why Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wasallam's Kunia is Abu
Qasim who died before his second birthday.
So that was a tragedy that but this
was the will of Allah sallallahu alaihi wasallam
and Allah sallallahu alaihi wasallam did not leave
any of the male offspring of Rasulullah sallallahu
alaihi wasallam behind.
However he gave him male offspring.
Now think about this there's so many you
know meanings in these things because in the
tribal culture and some of this still remains
with us.
In the tribal culture there is a special
superiority given to male children because these are
going to be heirs, these will be warriors,
these will be tribal leaders, elders and so
on.
So if somebody did not have boys, did
not have male children, they were somehow considered
to be less worthy and less honorable than
someone and then someone who had male children.
So Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala gave his
Nabi sallallahu alaihi wasallam male children so that
nobody could say that you know oh but
you see he never had any sons.
He had sons but at the same time
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala's mansha, his will
that Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wasallam was to be
the last of the prophets.
And usually if there is a son alive
then somewhere there is a chance of you
know the lineage getting mixed up and people
ascribing prophethood to that son because they loved
the father so much that they don't want
to you know that connection to be parted.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala stopped that in
the right in the beginning and Allah revealed
the ayat in suratul ahzab where he said
Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wasallam is not the father
of any of the men among you, meaning
he has no sons.
But he is the Rasul of Allah and
Khataman Nabiyeen.
He is the messenger of Allah and he
is the last of the prophets and messengers.
Now so his first son was Qasim and
that's why the quniyah of Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi
wasallam, Abu Qasim.
Qadiyah then gave birth to their daughters Zainab,
Ruqayya, Umm Kulthum and Fatima and lastly to
their son Abdullah.
Abdullah was known as At-Tayyib, the good
and At-Tahir, the pure, because he was
born after Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wasallam received the
first revelation and the prophethood had begun.
Abdullah also died in childhood.
The daughters of Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wasallam, Zainab,
Ruqayya, Umm Kulthum and Fatima remained
in their lives.
Khadijah spent her entire fortune in the work
of her husband and in charity.
When the Quraish banished and forced them, the
Banu Hashim to live in one of the
gorges that led to Mecca called the Valley
of Abu Talib, Shaykh Abi Talib, where they
confined the members of the Banu Hashim and
Banu Al-Muttalib, both Muslims and non-Muslims,
and they were forced to withdraw from Mecca
and live there in a painful boycott for
three years.
The boycott was so severe that they ran
out of food and they used to eat
the leaves of trees.
Khadijah spent her money to buy food for
the people until her money lasted and saved
the people from starvation.
Otherwise, they would probably have all perished.
The Quraish, but in the process, Khadijah's fortune
was completely exhausted.
She finished everything.
The story of this is a very brief
version of that.
The Quraish held a meeting and decided to
banish the Banu Hashim and the Banu Abdul
Muttalib, Banu Al-Muttalib, by placing them under
a total social and economic boycott.
The other clans from the Quraish would not
marry their daughters, would not transact any business
with them, would not be seen with them,
wouldn't keep company with them, nor would they
accept any peace overtures from these two clans
until they handed over the Prophet Muhammad sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam to be executed.
Now, once all the people present had agreed
with these points, Baghid bin Amr bin Hashim
put this pact in writing.
The Quraish chief signed this document and the
parchment was hung inside the Kaaba in order
to give it authority.
And this was done on the first of
Muharram in the seventh year of Risalah.
The boycott was devastating and for many months
they lived in misery.
It was so rigorously applied and food was
so scarce that women and children and nursing
babies would cry with hunger which could be
heard all over the valley.
The Quraish told merchants not to sell any
goods to these people.
Prices were increased to prevent them from buying
even essentials.
They remained in the state for three years.
Apart from some kind Quraishi people who secretly
sent food to them, they were totally abandoned.
Despite such grim circumstances, Rasul sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam never ceased inviting non-Muslims to Islam.
He was particularly active during the time of
Hajj.
It was at this time that he would
speak to tribes that had travelled to from
all over the Arab world.
While this was going on, in time passed,
a group of fair-minded people among the
Quraish led by Hisham ibn Amr, they hated
this unfair and illegal and cruel boycott.
Hisham was highly respected among his people.
He contacted some people of the Quraish whom
he knew to be kind-hearted and considerate.
He told them it was shameful to allow
such tyranny to continue and he persuaded them
to abandon the unjust contract.
When he had persuaded five men to agree,
they met together to work towards this end.
When the Quraish were assembled, the next day,
Zuhair ibn Abi Umayyah, whose mother was the
aunt of Rasul sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, faced
the people and demanded, people of Mecca, do
we eat and clothe ourselves while the Banu
Hashim are perishing, unable to buy or sell?
By Allah, I will not sit down until
this unjust document is torn up.
Abu Zuhair became suspicious of this sudden rebellion.
But Abu Talib saw his opportunity to step
in.
He had come into the precinct of the
Kaaba to tell the Quraish that Rasul sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam has received a revelation about
the fate of the parchment.
He stood up and facing the Quraish told
them that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala had
revealed to Rasul sallallahu alaihi wa sallam that
the termites had eaten up the parchment
which was inside the Kaaba.
The only thing that remained of this document,
Abu Talib said, were the words, in your
name, O Allah.
Abu Talib then challenged the Quraish saying that
if Rasul sallallahu alaihi wa sallam's claim turned
out to be false, he would no longer
stand between them and Rasul sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam.
However, if the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
had spoken the truth, the Quraish should end
the boycott.
The Quraish accepted the challenge.
When Mu'tim bin Adi rose to retrieve the
parchment, the assembly saw that it had indeed
been destroyed.
Its only remaining words were, Bismikallahumma, in your
name, O Allah, and Allah's name.
Despite this sign, the Quraish did not accept
the Prophet's word from Rasul sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam and Islam.
They only lifted the boycott and the Banu
Hashim and the Banu Abdul Muttalib could once
again live in Makkah.
It shows us how people become so, how
hatred completely blinds you to the truth and
the only reason you don't accept the truth
is not because you don't see it as
the truth, but because you don't like the
person saying it.
Qadi Adil Ana died soon thereafter in the
tenth year of Risalah and three years before
Hijrah.
Rasul sallallahu alaihi wa sallam had been married
to her for 25 years and never married
anyone else during that time.
I remember that this practice of marrying more
than one wife was very very common in
those times and in that culture and almost
every one of the Sahaba had more than
one wife.
So, Rasul sallallahu alaihi wa sallam not marrying
for 25 years while he had been married
to Qadi Adil Ana was indeed something which
was quite remarkable.
Narrated Ayesha, she said, I did not feel
jealous of any of the wives of Rasul
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam except Qadi Adil Ana,
though I did not see her.
Rasul sallallahu alaihi wa sallam used to mention
her very often and whenever he slaughtered a
sheep, he would cut its parts and send
them to the women friends of Qadi Adil
Ana.
When I sometimes said to him, she said
that when I once said to him, you
treat Qadi Adil Ana in such a way
as if there is no woman on earth
except Qadi Adil Ana.
He would say Qadi Adil Ana and he
would describe her qualities that she was such
and such and so on and from her
Allah gave me children and this is in
Bukhari.
Abu Huraira radiallahu anhu narrated that Jibreel Aslam
one day came to Rasul sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam and he said, Ya Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam Khadija radiallahu anhu is coming to
you with a dish of food.
He's bringing some food for you.
When she arrives, give her Salaam from her
Rab Jalla Jalaluhu and on my behalf and
give her the glad tidings of having a
palace in Jannah wherein there will be neither
any noise nor any toil, no work and
no trouble and this is in Bukhari.
On another occasion, Aisha Siddiqa radiallahu anhu asked
Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam if she had
been the only woman worthy of his love
and he replied, Khadija believed in me when
nobody else did.
She embraced Islam when people disbelieved me and
she helped and comforted me when there was
none to lend me a helping hand and
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala gave me children
from her.
My brothers and sisters, there is always a
position and we have seen this in the
seerah, we have seen this elsewhere that there
is always a special position for those who
truly believed in Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
before there were so-called evidences and proofs
and that is the benefit of these people.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, for example, mentioned
the people who came to Islam before Fatah
Makkah and he said that they are not
the same as those who came to Islam
after Fatah Makkah because when Makkah was conquered,
people saw the victory and then to be
a Muslim and to accept Islam was not
so difficult, that was almost a given but
people who came to Islam before Fatah Makkah,
these were the people who were truly blessed
and who Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala gave
them precedence over those who came to Islam
after Makkah had been conquered.
So this is a brief account of the
life of one of the greatest of our
Salafi Salahin, one of the greatest of the
Sahabiyat of Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, Ummana
Khadija radiyallahu anha, our mother Khadija al-Kubra
radiyallahu anha.
Now the question is, my focus always is,
so what is or should be or can
be our takeaways from this story?
So we are not here in the business
of storytelling, we are in the business of
reading about and listening to and reflecting on
the biographies and the lives of those who
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala forgave and said,
radiyallahu anhum wa radu'an, that Allah is
pleased with them and they are pleased with
Allah and Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala called
them as-sabiqun al-awwalun min al-muhajirin
wal-ansar.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala said these are
the best of the best, these are the
first of the first, these are those who
won the race from the muhajirun and the
ansar, the people who migrated to Madinah and
those who were in Madinah who helped those
who migrated.
Now having said that, people like Sayyidah Khadija
al-Kubra radiyallahu anha, the parents of Ammar
ibn Yasir radiyallahu anhu and others don't fall
in this category of muhajir al-ansar because
they lived in Mecca and they were with
Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wasallam, they helped him, they
did all you know what they could to
aid the message of Islam and then they
died before Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wasallam made hijrah.
So even though they don't come strictly in
the category of either muhajir or ansari, they
would be included among the sabiqun al-awwalun,
the best of the best, the first of
the first.
Now Khadija al-Kubra radiyallahu anha, even among
the sabiqun, even among the best of the
best, is absolutely in the, I mean I'm
not in the business of now categorizing or
grading the sahaba, but she would be you
know among the top one or two because
not only did she believe in Rasulullah sallallahu
alaihi wasallam but she believed in him and
nobody else believed in him, number one.
And that's what he said also in when
Syeda Ayesha radiyallahu anha asked her in the
hadith which I just narrated to you, she
said this that she embraced Islam and people
disbelieved and she helped me and comforted me
when there was none to lend me a
helping hand.
So this is her big contribution.
Second thing is that she also contributed materially
and quite literally as we, as I said
in the beginning of this episode, she was
one of the wealthiest of the business people
in Mecca.
Her caravans what she used to trade were
bigger than the caravans of all the others
put together.
So that's the level of her wealth.
In today's you know parlance she would be
easily a billionaire but she literally completely wiped
out her wealth in the service of Islam.
She spent every single thing in the service
of Islam.
She did not need to do that but
she did that because of her love for
Allah and her love for Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam.
So now the question is and the result
of that of course is there is nothing
bigger than this that Jibreel A.S. himself
came in the hadith in Bukhari which I
mentioned to you also, narrated by Abu Huraira
radiyallahu anhu.
Jibreel A.S. came to Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam and said Ya Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam Khadijah radiyallahu alaihi wa sallam is
coming to you with a dish of food.
She is bringing some food for you.
When she arrives give her salam from her
Rab, her salam from Allah and my salam,
his own salam from Jibreel A.S. and
give her the glad tidings of having a
palace in Jannah wherein there will be neither
any noise nor any toil, no fatigue, no
trouble, nothing.
Subhanallah.
Imagine this this kind of honour.
Now the question is what are our lessons?
Now very clearly the first and foremost lesson
is complete and total obedience to Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala and to his Rasul sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam and irrespective of what the
world may say or think or do about
that.
Because Khadijah radiyallahu anhu was one of those
who believed in Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
as the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam himself
was a witness when nobody else believed.
So she was one of the first who
came to Islam if not the first who
came to Islam and she did that despite
the fact that she was seeing how the
world was around Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
Second thing is that not for a minute
did she ever say to Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam, you know you're doing this work
which is good but why don't you scale
it down a little bit, why don't you
go easy a little bit, there is so
much of opposition to you, why don't you,
you know, let it, let it calm down,
let it, no.
She just supported him knowing that he is
guided by Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, knowing
that whatever he is doing is by the
will of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and
she did not interfere in that.
She came and supported him completely and totally.
So these are two big lessons for us.
One is that we believe and we have
complete faith and iman and yaqeen on Allah
and on his Nabi alaihi sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam irrespective of whether anybody else has this
or not, irrespective of how popular this may
be or not be in Islam, we don't
have faith because of you know what people
say or do, we have faith because of
what we know to be true from Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala.
So this is the first big lesson that
we have.
Second big lesson we have is that just
having the faith by and saying that with
your tongue is not sufficient, this has to
be supported also by our actions.
In the case of Khadija Radhanana, she literally
completely and totally spent everything she had.
Now in Islam we don't, we don't recommend
that you spend everything you have, but definitely
we need to spend as much from what
Allah has given us as we want Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala to get close to
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
Spend as much as it takes to get
close to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
Also do remember when we are spending, when
we say Khadija tul Kubra Radhanana spent all
her wealth, sure in a worldly sense she
spent her wealth, but actually what was she
doing?
She was transferring her wealth from this dunya,
which was this wealth in this dunya, which
was fani, which was something which would have
been lost, which would have destroyed, fallen to
the vagaries of time, which when she died
she would have had to leave it behind
anyway.
She took this wealth and she transferred it
into a place where this wealth would be
waiting for her with the enhancement that Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala would give it and
it would be given to her at a
time when she needed that the most and
that is to the akhira.
So please remember I remind myself and you,
giving in charity is not giving at all.
Giving in charity is investing with Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala.
Investing with Allah means that the return will
be in keeping with the majesty and grace
of Allah and it is guaranteed by Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala who is the only
one who can guarantee anything anyway.
We ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to
help us to learn these beautiful lessons and
to help us to live our lives in
a way that pleases his majesty and grace.