Muhammad West – The Women Around the Messenger SAW – Episode 31

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			Thank you so much for joining us this episode that you one of our CDs, the Blissett women around the
messenger sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. And we were talking last week about our mother jewelry yet
being that Hadith. And during the course of discussion, we mentioned how her tribe, the bedroom
historic, were invaded by the prophet sallallahu sallam, and this was done as they themselves were
preparing to invade Medina. And the people were taking captives and during our discussion last week,
was speaking about the regulations with regards to jihad, and the concept of the prisoners of war
within Islam. And just quickly to summarize, we said that from an Islamic perspective, jihad is the
		

			last resort, we always try as an AMA, to resolve our conflict peacefully without violence. But there
is a room in a place where physical jihad is permitted, was very strict regulations in terms of not
harming animals not harming trees, non combatants, old people, children, women may not be harmed. So
very, very strict rules. And we say that Alhamdulillah from any system on Earth, Islamic
regulations, in terms of the rules of engagement are so forward thinking and so merciful in the way
in which it is legislated by the Sharia, one hamdulillah then we said that it might happen, that a
defeated enemy is taken prisoner or captive of war. And the treatment of the prisoners of war was
		

			something which Alhamdulillah the Sharia and mentioned in the Quran, that treating the prisoners of
war well, is a requirement in terms of the believers that we provide them with not just adequate
clothing, food, drink, shelter, medical treatment, we actually provide them with we provide them
with preferential treatment, that if there's enough food just for us and the prisoners of war, for
one of us, then we prefer the prisoners of war about ourselves. Now, again, there is no single army
on Earth, no single nation on Earth, that would first feed its prisoners of war before they feed
themselves. And this behind Allah is what Allah mentioned in the Quran matamata beings in a way,
		

			that the believers that they feed the poor, the orphan, or the prisoner of war first, even though
they themselves are in desperate need of that. There are many examples from the Sharia, for example,
the brother of Mousavi, Mousavi, who made the great Sahabi who was the first ambassador of Islam,
the first person that the resource alum sent from Mecca to Medina to spread Islam when his brother
was taken captive at the Battle of butter so Musab is a Muslim was brother was a non Muslim. During
the Battle of butter. The Musab is on the one side, his brothers on the other side and soprano side
note. Once again, it shows you the position of the Mahajan, those who made each other when they
		

			fought that battle. They weren't just fighting against anyone. They were fighting the brothers, the
fathers, the sons, they own the relatives they own blood. They chose the dean above the own family
relations, so Musab his brother was with the kuffaar. And when Muslims brother was defeated, he was
taken as a prisoner of war. And he was taken by an unsavoury a family as they captive. And Musab
Musab goes to the family of the answer. And he says this guy that you think and he's my brother,
keep him tied up firmly secure him firmly because his mom is a very rich woman, meaning My mother is
a rich lady. She loves him very much and she will pay top dollar basically taking three and Muslims
		

			brother says to him Yeah, you treat me like this. I'm you know, I'm your brother and you are
speaking about me like this. So Musab says, You are not my brother, this Ansari family this is my
brother. So without his brother is not a prisoner of war, the president of the Ansari family, and he
says that he became so shy because there was just enough food for one person by this family, they
would have prayed and dates, but the the babies the lucky obviously, and there wasn't enough bread
for everyone. So they would give him the breed first, and they would let him eat first. whatever was
left over, they would eat an altar a few days and weeks like this. He became really shy, he became
		

			embarrassed at the way this family was treating him. They honored him as if he was a guest. To the
point we actually embrace Islam. So he embraces Islam, but he's still a prisoner and he keeps his
Islam quiet. He waits for his family to pay the ransom. And once they paid the ransom and unsightly
family, you know, got the money, and they set him free. He said the shadow law, law, every witness
that that has the right to worship except Allah and Muhammad Sallallahu Sallam is the Rasul Allah,
and he has embraced Islam. Another example Subhanallah there was a tribal chief to Mama was a very
severe enemy to the Muslims, severe severe enemy, and he so happened to you know, he sent armies
		

			against the Muslims he tried his best to assassinate the prophets of Salaam and once he
		

			was on a trip. And he passed through the Muslim lands. And he was taken us by surprise, captured and
taken prisoner. And he was a well known enemy to Islam. So he was taken prisoner, and he was brought
to the masjid. And he was brought for the Prophet sallallahu sallam, and the President said to him,
you know, what do you have to say for yourself or the mama, and the mama said, You know what, I'm
not scared. I'm a man of great power, that if you shed my blood, then basically my blood will be
arranged, my tribe will fight you and take vengeance upon you. But if you are a person that you'd
like to be rewarded, that I'm a generous man, set me free, and I'll pay you handsomely. So the
		

			prophet SAW Selim said, okay, just stay, keep him and we will keep in, they kept him prisoner. They
kept him prisoner for three days. And he was tied up in the masjid. And the professors on citadis
Harbor, feed him very, very well. And so they would bring the food to him and give him the beast of
treatment. And basically, after To cut a long story short of the three days, he would be set free
and he embraces Islam, the Muslim system, you make no, what do you say for yourself? He doesn't. He
says, I don't want to be Muslim. So the prophecies for him just go be free, there's no issue, we're
not going to harm you. We're not going to keep your prisoner we'll just go. And after the sitting
		

			free, he comes back. And he says he has embraced Islam or hamdulillah. So just by our treatment of
our enemies, the way we treat them, will be a sign will be a way in which it brings people closer to
the deen, the prisoners of war, and almost all of them were taken captive. And within a few days or
weeks, they were released as Muslims and they all embrace Islam, and they became an ally to the to
the deen, we go further, even and we say that in terms of the modern laws that you find today, that
Islam actually goes over and above what any system on earth today has in terms of treatment of the
enemy. So if we take someone's prisoner of all, if they are wealthy, we even before that, when we
		

			take them as prisoners of war, we treat them fairly kindly, honorably. We do not torture them harm
them, we do not execute the prisoners of war, except in very extreme situations, very, very bad
prisoners, those who have committed many crimes. For such we execute, but the very, it's maybe the
leadership of an army, the leadership or basically inspired others to commit genocide or atrocities
for these ones we punish, but everyone else, the soldiers, those who are simply following command,
then those we take prisoner, then we ask the family to pay a ransom to sit them free. If they are
wealthy family, then we sit a ransom that they can afford. If they are poor family, you see the
		

			ransom which poor family can afford. It so happened in a bottle of butter. They were those who could
not afford the ransom. So the family couldn't pay. So what do we do with a prisoner of war? So the
ransom was you teach 10 children to read and write. And once they fought the kids to read and write,
we set them free. Then you found those whose follow they were poor, and they couldn't read and
write. So what do they do? So the prophets will sometimes say to them, just sweet, just take a
pledge with Allah, that you will never fight us again, promise that you will never fight us. And
then he sit in for this panel. So this is of the, of the mercies within the Sharia, which even the
		

			modern 21st century many countries will fall very much short of the treatment of prisoners of war in
this regard. So I'm actually yeah, getting back to her. We mentioned how, you know, initially she
was the prisoner of war, the professor of I'm 63 and proposed to and she accepted this proposal, and
she became his wife 100 and up and she remained his wife until his death is about five years Amanda
Julia was the wife of the prophet SAW them and to show you her devotion to the deen we have a few
generations of altar once the prophets of Salaam you know he went to the masjid for fudger and Julia
was sitting at her masala he returned back just before the hour and he found a small city and he
		

			asked her were you sitting like this the whole morning in Nevada in Africa and she said yes, I was
sitting like this from fudger and over in Nevada in Vicar so I said, I have said four words or four
statements. If you were had said these four statements, it would have been more rewarding basically
all these hours in bigger the problem teaches us a very powerful sooner one of those things I call
the shortcuts agenda, something which will take you 30 seconds to recite, but it's the reward is
more than hours and hours and hours. So instead of sitting fudger until do it on your masala the
prophecies recite this two or three times in the morning, when you get the reward of spending the
		

			entire morning in Nevada, what is the store so the professor said he recited Subhana Allah ma either
the whole key was in Itachi ami data Kalamata he already don't have see. So number one, he says so
behind Allah, they ease and Glory be to Allah, ma t equal to the number of his creation so Allah I
praise you, I glorify You equal to the number of all your creations when we delicately mighty he was
in a trashy and yeah, Allah, I praise you and I glorify You equal to the weight of your throne, the
throne of Allah, the weight of it, I praise you equal to that
		

			Mommy daddy Kalamata he, and I praise you to the amount of ink it requires to write your words. Well
read on FCT and I praise Allah equal to the extent that you are pleased with yourself which pleases
you will hamdulillah beside this two or three times in the more thrice in the morning, and equals 30
award of sitting the entire morning in Sala, when a better so it's one of those easy kinda we should
all decide every single day. We also find Heidi's showing you the piety and the devotion of our
mother Julia, the prophets of Salaam came to find and she was a woman that fostered illegally, so
much so that even on Fridays, he found out that she was fasting. So you asked her Oh, God, are you
		

			fasting today? So she said yes. So he said, It's Friday. Are you have you forced yesterday before?
Thursday? So she said no, I didn't force on Thursday. And then he said, Are you intending of
enforcing tomorrow on Saturday? So she said, No, I don't intend to force on Saturday. So then he
said, then break your fast because you should not just force on Friday. So we learned a very
valuable scenario, that if you wish to fast just Friday, then you need to force Thursday with it was
Saturday with it. Of course, if you have it is too fast. For example, the six days of chawan and one
of those six days is a Friday, no problem. Or if your habit is to force the day of Ashura, or the
		

			day of alpha and that day falls on a Friday then it's okay to only force the Friday or more
commonly, perhaps one of the odd days of the month. And you force that day and it comes to be a
Friday when that's permissible. But if you just want to fast at Friday, then you need to foster
Thursday and Saturday with it. And this is the sort of profit sort of loss of profits someone passes
away to Ada still in her mid 20s, about 2528. And she continues loving for another another 40 years
or so. And in the age of 60 odd she passes away and she is buried in a cemetery along with all the
wives of the Prophet Solomon is a special area where she is buried while hamdulillah and we say a
		

			Sadam to our mother, Julia, there was a question that came up in hamdulillah. I just recently
returned from a trip to Australia. We this course women are on the messenger subtle asylum was being
taught, we taught this entire course in one day. And part of this course as you would have noticed
that you followed, we are not only giving the biographies of the wives of the Prophet sallallahu
sallam, we also tried to address some of the misconceptions around Islam, and in particular
misconceptions with regards to feminism or gender related issues. This is one of the crucial
questions we have in the 21st century. Does Islam oppress women? So it was a talk, which I presented
		

			Alhamdulillah and the question was, does Islam oppress women? And I hope during this series, we've
seen the role that women have played within Islam, and the rules and regulations that the Sharia
gives our mothers, our sisters, and there should be no confusion as to this. So one question that
came up. This is the asked, Can I identify myself as a feminist? is Islam feministic or Islam? You
know, can I say I'm a Muslim, feminist? Now, we just take a step back, it's important for us to
understand the context, you know, of the word or the context of the question. So the word feminism,
as many definitions for many people it has meaning it has a lot of meaning. The word feminism is a
		

			loaded term. For some it's a positive meaning. For some it's a negative meaning. On the one level,
if we say feminism is the a movement which looks to restore the rights of women, that Alhamdulillah
the Sharia, in its totality is not feminine, it's not a feminist, but the Sharia promotes the rights
of women. In fact, the last advice of the Prophet was before he passed away to the woman was hasta
la sala Malika a man who can look after your Salah, and look after those who are in your custody or
those in your control those who are under your watch, meaning your wives, your daughters, your
children and your slaves in particular women look after the women. So the prophesy look after your
		

			Salah, and look after the women and children. So I will share here from the get go has realized that
our sisters are a vulnerable segment of our community, that it's easy for her rights, her honor her
dignity, to be harmed to be taken. And therefore the Sharia really promoted the rights of women when
you go through the series maybe on a granular level you're looking at but if you take a step back,
and you think Swan Allah before Islam, women were being buried alive by the fathers, we will never
be inherited by the brothers. We will being bought and sold without any consent. Women will given
over a slave so Subhanallah the man has, you know, a million Rand of debt. He says you know what,
		

			take my daughter's I paid you with my daughter's, whether she's happy or sad that so don't don't
concern to me. Basically women who are like your cattle, even Subhana Allah like cattle, you no
longer had need for them and you want to do slow to them. You did the same to you women who simply
killed them. This was the context of where women were before Islam. In other cultures. If we look at
not just the Arab society, the Judeo Christian society, they
		

			Blame half for the fall of mankind they blame Eve for causing sin and corrupting mankind for being
dirty. You'd find even three 400 years ago the church was debating whether a woman even has a soul
is even human, of course Alhamdulillah the Sharia is far above these kind of discussions and far
above this kind of oppression. The Sharia has been put up to defend the honor the dignity of our
women, and therefore Subhan Allah by the end of islam 23 years later, at the end of when the person
passed away, when the women before Islam, the women had no position at all in society, you find that
of the greatest people in the oma are mothers, I shall be being a teacher, even running and leading
		

			an army being the most powerful one of the most powerful people in the room, you find that the only
the very first manuscript of the Quran, the very first must have is in the hands of our sister
hafsa. So during my talk, we listed a few milestones in terms of what the feminist movement has
achieved. For example, in the UK, the very prestigious Cambridge University for example, the first
time a woman could attend a class in Cambridge was in 1869, and 50 years ago, 1869 you compare that
the first university on Earth was established in 850 9000 years before that, by a sister Fatima
theory, she established the very first university in the world. We know for example, that I had
		

			taught so many other Sahaba I'd learned Hadith from her, something surprisingly, that I found really
interesting 1920 this is not even 100 years ago, 98 years ago, women were not allowed to practice
law or accounting, law and accounting was forbidden for women, only men were competent enough to
practice those in inverted commas, sacred sciences only for me. From the beginning of Islam, we find
the very first manuscript of the Quran is in the hands of mother half so nothing is off limits to
our sisters Subhana Allah, so there should be no confusion as to the the the position of Islam in
defending and honoring the rights of women. Back to our question, can a Muslim say I'm a feminist.
		

			So feminism, we said is a movement to restore the rights of women. And without a doubt within the
Muslim lands, we find that unfortunately, we live in a time when Muslim communities in Muslim
societies Muslim countries, husbands fathers, even Allah we mela, perfect as we have fallen short,
we might not fulfill our duties in terms of giving the women the full rights. In fact, we might be
the reason for the opposition. And because we are not fulfilling the Sharia, we find our sisters
moving out and trying to fight for the the freedom fight for the the rights and the finding within
Western philosophies and Western movements within the western feminist movement, they finding a
		

			voice that they don't find within Islam, and before they take into these movements, as a way of
liberation. So I give an example that, you know, about 50 years ago, not even so long ago, the
Muslim lands were coming out of the colonial power, there was still a lot of oppression, there was a
lot of injustice happening in those countries. And communism looked like a very good idea communism
looked like a means we those at the bottom of society can can liberate themselves from the
oppression of those on top. So communism was a liberation movement to many countries, and many
Muslim countries and many Muslim parties became communist. Of course, with communism, we know that
		

			there are certain very problematic beliefs that goes against Islam. So what happened was people
actually became communists, and they left the Islamic roots and took on philosophies that were an
Islamic, so they the intention or something good, we want to fight oppression, wanna fight the
strong ruling that the weak we want to fight the rich exploiting the poor, Alhamdulillah beautiful,
but at the expense of other areas. So they took on inherited some problematic beliefs with that. So
from an Islamic perspective, whenever we look at these movements, we can take the positives from
them and ally II. When you look at the positives in communism, we look at the positives in the
		

			feminist movement, we find those positives in the Sharia. But as for the negative thoughts, we say
that is not compatible with the Sharia, and therefore we reject it. Therefore, we should have an
Islamic movement that fights for the rights of women, we should find Islamic movement that looks to
liberate the poor, and the downtrodden. Another example, Islam allows profit profit within if it
allows you to make income it allows you to buy and sell, yet we will not call ourselves capitalists
because with capitalism, there's a negative connotation. So without getting detailed and discussing
and debating words, what we can say is that we as a Muslim Ummah, we all should be and we have
		

			always been and for 1500 years, we have been the most progressive in defending and promoting the
rights of women, whatever term you want to use, that is part of the Sharia, that is the the justice
of the Sharia, and that that is what it means to be a Muslim to defend the rights of others. And
wherever we find these modern movements, we it conforms with Islam
		

			hamdulillah we work with him with that. But the are definitely certain elements within these modern
movements that are against Islam and we reject those things. For example, you know identifying with
a different gender, that if you're a boy and you feel you know what I identify as a female, then
that is your I put my Sharia perspective we do not allow something like that, that what Allah has
created you and Allah has given you, that is the way it should be. We find certain laws and the
rules within the Sharia, which may not be compatible with Western ideologies, we do not change the
Sharia. For the modern times that we live in. We believe the Sharia is for all times. And it is
		

			defined by the one who created men and women, that these laws are in place by the Holic the Creator,
and he knows ultimately what's best inshallah next week, we will continue in our next episode, we'll
continue the discussion of feminism and Islam circle of fate. salaam aleikum wa