Muhammad West – The Women Around the Messenger SAW – Episode 37

			Mr. Heyman company layerable alameen wa Salatu was Salam ala Sayyidina Muhammad Ali, he was so happy
he married, my beloved brothers and sisters in Islam is that ironic. ly but I care to
psychologically thank you so much for joining us this episode 37 of our CDs have lifted women around
the messenger sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. And before we begin, just a reminder to myself, and to
all of us that are listening, as we enter this December period, or this Christmas holiday period, if
you're in the southern hemisphere, it is summertime, it's holiday time the schools are on holiday.
And if you're in the Northern Hemisphere, you probably will take some holiday as well. The Prophet
		

			sallallahu Sallam reminds us that they are two blessings that people in general missed out that most
people, we neglect these two blessings, and that is good health and free time, we don't really take
up our good health and only use it productively, and they only reflect on our health. In the days
when we are ill, when we're sick and that health is gone. And we're not we don't have the strength
to do the things that we could have done. Only then do we really appreciate that blessing. And for
those who are ill, or those whose health is not perfect at the moment, we ask Allah to grant in full
Shiva, we ask Allah to heal all the sick people of the earth. For every disease, there's a cure,
		

			anyone who is ill should not give up hope they should search for that cure. And ultimately, Allah
Subhana Allah is the one that will cure. The second blessing as the Hadith mentions his free time.
And now if you're on holiday, if you will, taking a break from work, taking a break from school, you
can take this holiday is okay it is permissible to enjoy yourself in a halaal manner, it is good to
give your body time to recover and to relax, to you know, lighten your mind to de stress this is all
possible. These are all good things. But we also should try and make some use of this free time to
do some kind of extra evader that we don't usually get to do. So maybe we don't have the opportunity
		

			to spend, you know, extra amount of time with liquor or extra amount of time in the masjid or to the
site extra Quran. Maybe we never even opened liquid answers and I'll move on now is an opportunity
now is an opportunity to show to Allah that yes, I have free time. And I will use even if it's
510 20 minutes extra of my free time for the sake of Allah so that this blessing of free time does
not go to waste. And of the best things we can do in this free time is to educate ourselves to learn
something new, whether it is to read a book, whether it is to listen to some lectures, if you're
going on some road trip, or all the put on some of the lectures. There are so many wonderful lecture
		

			series on Islam, that you can find Muslim central.com Muslim central.com a fantastic website. It's
called have the best speakers on earth some of the best lecture series on earth in the English
language, download some of those episodes, listen to them, as you're driving on your holiday. rather
listen to that then something which is not permissible. You would benefit and and hamdulillah I
guarantee you will enjoy yourself. So try to make some benefit in this free time I speak to myself
first. I'm also Alhamdulillah on holiday. Some people even asked me when we continue with our CDs,
you know the women that are on the messenger because people are not listening to it. We don't want
		

			to stop for the sake of holidays. Because even though we take holiday from work, we take holiday
from school. We never take holiday from Islam. We never take holiday from our Deen. And in fact, we
should exert ourselves a little bit more in holiday and free time for the sake of evader because
when we are busy our excuses, we can't listen to lectures. We can't read books. We can't do that
extra Ibarra because we busy at work. Now when it's holiday, we should not prioritize our fun over
ubeda every single blessing will be asked about every single blessing we have, we will have to
answer for this. And if we say yeah Allah, even though I had the entire day off, I didn't have work
		

			or school. And in that I spent five minutes extra in the masjid. I never used to go, you know, I
never expected much going on during the week. Now that it's holiday. I've been excited one extra
page and hamdulillah you can say Allah, let's make a photo. That is my excuse. I've had my holiday.
That's the extra bit I've done and inshallah we hope Allah subhanaw taala except from us. So we will
continue the series if Allah permits through the holiday period, and we hope that you will continue
listening to it as well while hamdulillah in our last episode, Episode 36 we completed the
discussion around our mother, Sophia rhodiola. And her mother Sophia, who we said was from a Jewish
		

			background, the only wife of the Prophet sallallahu sallam, or came from the bunnies that are in
background. And of course her father, being one of the most vile opponents to Islam and ultimately,
our mother embraced Islam and she got the double reward as Allah mentions, the Adam Kitab the People
of the Book, if they embrace Islam, and they get the reward of being a Jew or a Christian and they
get the reward of being a Muslim mega who would so she's of this category will hamdulillah and with
the completion of our mother Sophia
		

			And her story we now have discussed over these 36 episodes, teen personalities, teen mothers, and I
hope by now that you we as we always do, we go through the list of personalities. And if you follow
the series I hope by now you would know these names and you also know who these women were, and I
hope that you've built a relationship with with them. Of course as Allah says, These are mothers,
our dear beloved mothers so we should know who they are. So let's go through the list. We started
number one, Khadija number two soda number three Ayesha, number four hafsa. Number five z never been
to hoceima number six on selama number seven, Xena vintage ash. Number eight jewelry. Yeah. Number
		

			nine, Habiba and number 10, Sophia, and that therefore leaves us to more personalities, the total
personalities we'll discuss would be 12. So we have two more left. And we will start with Maria and
kipia. Mother, Maria, the Coptic lady. And number 12 will be maimunah insha. Allah. I'm Anna Maria.
Tia as you can hear as the name is Maria, the Coptic lady, she was from the Coptic origin, very,
very controversial personality and a number of issues surrounding this discussion in this discussion
with her will speak about slavery, because she began as a slave initially, she was a slave and mean,
beyond just slavery, the issue of concubines the issue of actually cohabiting having sexual
		

			relationship with a slave. What does Islam say about slavery? What does Islam say about sleeping
with your slave? And then, of course, also, these are debates whether our mother Maria was, in fact,
a wife of the Prophet salam to begin with, or was she always a concubine? Was she just a slave woman
the Prophet Solomon had * with. And this is a very, very sensitive topic, even though even
though it is no longer relevant, because Alhamdulillah by the decree of Allah, slavery has come to
an end, and no one looks to bring it back. No alum on Earth has says we should bring slavery back
into something which Allah had never legislated. And it's something which has gone on hamdulillah.
		

			But we need to discuss these matters because we find in the Quran, Allah mentions that one may
cohabit with your wives and with those who your right hand possesses, and these are the slave women,
so we'll talk about this very controversial issues. But before we get there, let's begin the story
around a mother Maria. So mother, Maria electricty, yeah, she's Maria, the Coptic lady. She's the
only wife of the Prophet sallahu wa sallam who was not born in Arabia, all his other wives were born
in Arabia. In fact, most of them, all of them were born in Makkah, with the exception of God and
Sophia, you'd find all of them were actually from Makkah and from the Quran. Amanda Maria was
		

			actually born in Egypt, and the Coptic people of Egypt. They have been there for many, many 1000s of
years or many centuries. And, in fact, they predate Islam. So this community that it's a branch of
Christianity, the Coptic church, they've been the from the earliest days of Christianity, they've
been in Egypt. And until today, you have more than 10 million Coptic Christians in Egypt. It's
another evidence to say, in the Muslims, the Sahaba came to Egypt. They did not impose Islam on this
community, this community was invited to Islam. They never accepted Islam. And until today, many of
them have not accepted Islam Al Hamdulillah. You know, we leave them the Sharia has left them in
		

			peace, they are allowed to practice their religion, we invite them to Islam if they accept and that
is for their own benefit, if they reject it, and that's between them and Allah. But we do not impose
Islam upon anyone that could have been so this is one of the clearest examples that Islam does not
spread by the sword, the fact that there's a Coptic people still today in Egypt. This is something
to take note of. So Amanda, Maria came from these people. Her father was a Coptic man, her mother
was actually a Greek woman. She was born in Egypt. The family was a well, from high society, high
class people, very, very deeply religious, and very connected with the Coptic church. And at that
		

			time, in fact, Egypt was ruled by the Coptic church so that what we call them call costs, or the
patriarch the patriarch is like maybe in our terms, the Grand Mufti or the Pope, the Pope of the
Coptic church. He was the guy that ruled Egypt. So they didn't have a president waking that although
the Pope of the church was in charge of Egypt, and many of the high society the aristocrats of
Egypt, they were aligned with the church. So there was power, we know the church had a lot of power
as well. So her family, they will be connected to the church and what they did. So behind all these
people, they actually donated the children to the church. So Maria's parents gave her and her sister
		

			so my sister called CD and Maria and CD and they were two sisters. The parents donated them to the
church and they said, You're a priest or macoco cos you can take our daughters as slaves and they
will serve they belong to the church. So also understand the issue of slavery at that time was
universal that you
		

			Christians, even the Muslims, yes. And we'll talk about this slavery existed at that time. And yeah,
these parents actually gave the kids as donations to the church and the church owned them. You could
do whatever you want with them. You can use them, you can sell them you can, and we'll see in fact
that they were given away as a gift. And that's how she becomes into the church. So she was given as
a young girl she and his sister Maria and Syrian, they were donated to the church. And so how can we
find something similar? In the story of our of Nabhi? He says mother, Maria manisa salaam. So if we
remember the story of Nabhi Isa, he's grandmother Miriam's mother Louise's grandmother. And in this
		

			time that Nativity discussion when people talk about the birth of babies at this time, of course,
there's no evidence that nobody's was born on the 25th of December. But I mean, if we look at our
from the Quranic perspective, what a wonderful story about something we should share with our
Christian friends and neighbors that you know, the person that he says mentioned in so much detail,
the buffering the basal cell numbers I've mentioned in the Quran, but the birth of si so mentioned
not only him but his mother, Miriam, and his grandmother is mentioned in the Quran. So now he says
grandmother, she, you know, may do all that, yeah, Allah give me a child, and she hoped it was going
		

			to be a boy, she believed it was going to be a boy. And she says, Yeah, Allah will give me this boy.
And when her belly became big, she said, This boy that's in my tummy. I will donate him to the
synagogue or to the temple, I will give him to you he will be in your service. And of course, when
she gave birth, you found it to go, and she named her mighty M. But still mighty M was the property
in inverted commas of the of the Temple of the masjid in Ibiza Korea. He looked after and she was
there. And of course Allah was selected to be the mother of an abbey he said the Messiah, may Allah
be pleased with him, my peace and Salaam be upon them as mine. So something similar. Maria and her
		

			sister were donated to the the Church of the Coptic Church of Egypt. Now she received in a very good
education, the church was obviously also the most powerful and most advanced facility at that time
or organization at that time. So she was very cultured, she was well trained, and she was must have
been, from what we will come to know extremely, extremely beautiful woman with exotic features from
from an edit perspective. She was something that looked quite spectacular when people saw her. You
know, they were mesmerized by the way she looked and her sister seen to that matter. So how does she
become How does she go from Egypt to Medina and become the wife of the prophet SAW Selim? Well, six,
		

			seven years into the message and the preaching of the last six years after the era, the prophets are
seldom into the treaty with the Quran, the Quran and the Prophet we know that there was war between
Mecca and Medina, eventually after the Battle of the trench. Now we spoke about the Battle of the
trench a few few episodes ago, when liquidation realized off of the back of the trench, the profits
is from this point on, we will no longer be on the defensive but we are now on the offensive now,
the power has shifted to Medina. Now the Muslims have the momentum the kurush they tried everything
and they lost so the momentum is what the Muslims so when this when the power began to shift to
		

			Medina, the Qureshi had no option but to enter into a peace agreement with the Prophet sallahu wa
Salaam. So Habiba Amata Rama Haddad Abu sufian, he was still the arch enemy of Islam. He enters into
an agreement of peace with the prophet SAW Selim school, the Treaty of who they be a wonderful,
wonderful chapter in Islam. And when this happens now, with a Qureshi recognizing the prophets of
Salaam as a leader, he now has, you know, a reputation in Arabia. He's seen now as a major political
figure. He's seen now as a key person in Arabia. In fact, at this point, he's probably the most
powerful man in Arabia. Of course, from a non Muslim perspective, he's a king, or he's a ruler, and
		

			he's a political heavyweight in Arabia. So his fame becomes well known even outside of Arabia, and
the Prophet sallahu wa sallam, once he has sort of come to terms and is at peace with the internal
enemies of Arabia. He now looks outside of Arabia, and he sends letters to the kings and the rulers
of the world. He sends a letter to the emperor of Persia, inviting him to Islam, the letter to the
emperor of Rome with a Byzantine kingdom. heraclius. He sends a letter to him and the prophets and
sends a letter to Morocco, cos, the hate of Egypt, so the ruler of Egypt, the Coptic Pope, his name
was Cyrus voudrais story. His Arabic name in English is called Cyrus, the macoco. So the patriarch
		

			of Alexandria, the prophets of Salaam writes him a letter, inviting him to Islam, and these letters
and hamdulillah. Until today, these letters have been preserved, and we know exactly what the
prophet SAW Selim said to them. So when the Prophet invited the emperor of Persia, invited him to
Islam, he was extremely arrogant, he tore up the letter, and I will show the Arab What does he
think, calling me to his religion. And when the Prophet seldom heard that promises, because of his
elegance, Allah will tee up His kingdom as he took my letter. And voila, he at that time, the
Persian Empire was perhaps the most powerful empire on Earth.
		

			For over almost 2000 years, but within 10 years from that moment his entire Empire crumbled, never
to come back. The Persian Empire never recovered from that within 10 years behind Allah as a
prophet, he will be the last of his people. And as a curse on him because of the way he treated that
later. As for the emperor of the Byzantines, the Roman Emperor heraclius, very interesting story.
When he receives the letter, Abu sufian happened to be in Syria, he brought him and he said, I got
this letter from Mohammed, what do you say about him? And Abu sufian tells us a story. He says, at
that point, he realized how prominent The problem was. At that point, he realized that even the
		

			Romans know about this man. And he had to tell the truth. Abu sufian asked him questions like, who
embraces the religion, the rich of the poor and the poor? He asked Abu sufian those who enter his
religion do they leave, they become more attached. Abu sufian says No, none of them when they go,
they never come back then the emperor of Rome actually says to Abu sufian, at this man, we are also
looking and waiting, we Christians are also waiting for final prophet. And if I was you, if I were
in Arabia, now I would actually wash his feet, because this is the Prophet that was also predicted,
but the king of Rome, he would not leave his kingdom. So he remained on his religion. That was his
		

			fate, as for the emperor of Egypt, and Morocco costs, so he receives this later and the prophets of
Salaam says to him, I greet you in the name of Allah, the Most Merciful, the most magnificent, that
peace be upon the one who accepts the religion of Allah. And then if you accept Oh, joy, oh, Cyrus,
if you accept this religion, then you will have a double reward not just that you've been a
Christian, and you believe in Allah and now you accept Islam, you will also be the means that all
your people embrace Islam. But if you reject, if you reject this thing, then the sun is upon you and
the sin of your people. And then the proper number of the verses from the Quran. Allah says kuliah
		

			Africa Tabitha, Allah, Allah collimate, in Salah in vain and Elena come and land in La la la, you
should be sure that Allah tells us when we speak to the Jews and the Christians. Allah says, when we
speak to them, we should say, let us come to a common word between us. Let's not talk about the job.
And we talk about NACA, and let's go into the side issues. Let's talk about the most important
issue. And what is the number one issue that we worship? None besides a lot of Oh, Christians or
Jews, you and as we all agree, we are all from NaVi Ibrahim alayhis salam, our religions or
Abrahamic religions. What was the the teachings of Ibrahim, that he is only one creator, one
		

			controller and Sustainer of the universities, none besides Him that has power, so let's worship Him
alone. And let's not commit initially with him, let's not go to Jesus, or to saints or comets, or
only out anything besides Allah. Let's worship a lot alone. Let's first agree to that. If we agree
to that, well, hamdulillah then we can start talking about the rest of it. The prophets for number
ISIS in the later July was Cyrus, he gets the letter, and he being a man of religion, being an
educated Christian, he also knows Look, this is the teachings of the Gambia. This is the teachings
of Jesus and the Holy Prophet coming and the signs as illumination in the Quran. Look it up. They
		

			recognize the prophets of Salaam snuba, the Jews recognized him, the Christians recognize them. In
fact, we mentioned this before the Chief Rabbi of Medina, of the Lebanon center, he was the number
one that I buy when he met the Prophet for lamb. He said, This man is a prophet, and we sit Sophia
is dead. And Sophia is dead, who I also recognize as a prophet. So God understands that this man is
a prophet, and that Islam, this is the correct way. But of course, if you embrace Islam, he's gonna
lose his position. He can no longer be the head of the church, and he possibly you might even die.
So what does he do? He writes back to the prophets of Salaam and he says, you know, Mohammed, we
		

			received your letter, and we have taken great care. I've honored your letter, I mean, I'm showing
great amount of respect. I've taken your letter and I've put it in a in a very special box, that we
are also waiting for a profit. And we also are looking forward to the coming of a profit. We thought
perhaps he will not be we didn't think you come from Arabia, but we taking this under consideration,
and we respect you and we admire you. And here as a token of our admiration, I have seen a lot of
gifts so he sent clothing. He sent money, gold and silver. He sent perfumes he said medicines and
herbs. He sent even a donkey and this donkey is very famous as the prophets donkeys names don't do
		

			as his name. The prophets camels name was crosswalk crosswalk, and his donkey don't do actually came
as a gift from the king of Egypt or the patriarch of Egypt. And in addition to that, he says, oh,
Mohammed, I've seen you two amazing slave girls, two sisters, Mariya and seen so these Remember we
said these two sisters were donated to the church. They were at the service the church owned them
and had a lot of churches yet What do you take them as gifts, so they will be extremely well looking
women and well educated
		

			Very talented women, and they were given as a gift to the Prophet sallallahu sallam, the prophets of
Allah received the letter. And he's not really impressed with the gifts. This wasn't the issue a
prophet, some didn't write a letter so you can get gifts or recognition. So prophecy Salaam says to
the Sahaba, this man because he rejected Islam, the serious, he will be the last of his kingdom,
meaning that he's the last man who Egypt after that Islam, little Egypt. And in fact, as we sit
within five years, five or seven years after the Satan or the alarm when he becomes the halifa, the
Muslims will enter into Egypt and Egypt until today we know is a Muslim country. And that man
		

			serious wrote that letter, as the Prophet of the city. He'll be the last of his people to note
Egypt. He was in fact, the last. And then Professor Walters is because he acted with respect because
he acted with a degree of decency, Allah will not he will not be humiliated sort of in the dunya, as
the emperor of Persia is going to be humiliated. In fact, the emperor of Persia, his own son killed
him spinal, his own son locked him up. And he started with Oh, as Sam mentioned, his son basically
use them photography practice with an arrow spinal, what a horrible ending for that man, because of
his disrespect to the letter of a lot of the prophets are silent. So these gifts come to the Prophet
		

			Allah, He distributes all the gold and silver to the Sahaba. He keeps the donkey, the donkey of the
porcelain. And of course he has now these two women, they're not sisters, he can't keep as is the
rule and we'll come to know the rules pertaining to slaves. You can't have two sisters as your
slaves as your concubines. So the professor lamp keeps Maria for himself. And he gives her in, you
know, who would you like to be with? And so she Mary started to be the case, or the Hassani beneath
Abu Hassan even if having the power to the person and he was a poet. He was the number one poet and
he married the city, you know, city in befell to him. And the professor Lam sends back the Masons
		

			and he says my sooner is a better medicine than your mittens. The remedies that I give is even
better in your medicines. And this was returned to the Lima caucus. So this opens a number of
questions. The enemy accepts a slave woman, and there will be a relationship between them. What does
Islam say about slavery? And more controversially, and more sensitive? What does Islam say about
concubines slave women? Who we cohabitate as I said, is not an issue that is prevalent today. And
you shall it should be in that there should be no such thing as slaves on Earth. But how does Islam
respond to this question? And that will be our discussion in our next episode in sha Allah, please
		

			join us. Thank you so much for any questions and concerns. anything you'd like to add? Please email
me with [email protected] sokola Haider, thank you so much. If you're on holiday, please drive
safely and have a wonderful period in sha Allah Salallahu Salam Alaikum