Omar Suleiman – Umm Waraqa bint Abdullah (ra) – The Martyred Hafidha

			And all of this will of course be a build up in sha Allah Tada to once we get back to our full
episodes Bismillahi Tada and we will go to the life of Asia while the alongside her and her mother
Aisha, in detail Bismillah he to Allah. Now the biographies that have been chosen for the next five
episodes in sha Allah to Allah, there is a connection between them, they often feed into the next
story. But there's one particular question that as we covered the Quran, the reciters around the
Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam that came up a few times, particularly from the sisters. Were
there any female, half the locks? Were there any women that memorize the Quran? alongside those
		

			luminaries that we mentioned, that preserved the Quran? And to preface that answer, you have to
start off with the fact that literacy as a whole literacy as a whole is not common to the errors,
right? So if literacy rates were poor as a whole, then naturally you're going to find that the
literacy rates for women would be less than men in that society. So there weren't many people that
could read or write at the time. They were few. And those that could read and write ended up
becoming scribes of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, and from the women that number would
even be much less of people that could read and write at the time. But there's one particular woman
		

			who was known to have gathered the Quran to memorize the Quran and to have had been proficient and
it's memorization and it's recitation. And her name is Anwar aka bint Abdullah ibn Al Hadith on
Waratah binte Abdullah, if not Hadith, but all the Allahu Taala Anna. Now her story is that she was
a very wealthy woman, a very noble woman from a huzzah Raj in Medina. And she basically was the
sought after woman at the time when Islam came to Medina
		

			and Subhanallah when she embraced the Dawa of Muslim women are made or the Allah Tada and hold
before the coming of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa salam, she had unique circumstances that
allowed her to excel in immediately memorizing the Quran. For one she was one of the few literate
women that existed in Medina, one of the few literate people period, but she also was someone who is
literate. The second thing is that she inherited a huge amounts of wealth. So she wasn't someone
that had to worry about her wealth or her day to date. And she wasn't someone that was involved in
the politics of Medina prior to the coming of Islam. So she wasn't involved in blasts. She wasn't
		

			involved in any of the wars that took place. So she really had the opportunity to immediately
dedicate herself exclusively to the Quran exclusively to the Dawa of Mozambique in Romania, which of
course was the data of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam. Now, when the prophets like some came
to Medina, she was one of those who dedicated herself amongst a Mahajan what we mean amongst the
Mothers of the Believers and among some of the female scholars, at the time, with particular
proficiency in the recitation of the Quran, and there is something that surrounds her of a
controversy of source, which is that the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam told her to lead the
		

			people of her household insula, in prayer. So when you have the controversy, and when I say
controversy, it's not a controversy within the tradition. It's a controversy, obviously, a modern
controversy that those that tried to suggest that the people that tried to suggest that the prophets
lie some had allowed for a woman to lead a mixed congregation of men and woman, men and women use
the narration of America or the Allah hotel and had that when she came to the Prophet sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam and She memorized the Quran and she was literate, and she clearly became scholarly
and distinguished pretty early on. The Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam commanded her to lead her
		

			home in Salah. Okay. The problem is, is that there is no indication it's such an ambiguous narration
to use for something so extreme in terms of overturning the amount of the consensus in that regard.
To say that on watercolor the lawn has narration justifies that the only thing we have is that the
prophets lie some commanded her to leave the folk in her home that could have been children that
could have been servants because again, she was a very wealthy woman at the time. It could have
meant many things. It could have met unique circumstances but what we do know is that she was
someone who was a distinguished reciter of the Quran and she used to teach the women of Medina the
		

			Quran, and she used to recite the Quran amongst the most proficient of the reciters. Now Subhanallah
the next several biographies we're going to cover, all of them have significant twists and turns.
Okay, these stories are not all rosy in the sense that there is a lot of difficulty
		

			These people encountered on Wanaka came to the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, and asked the
prophets lie Selim, something very specific. And this is the spirit of the unsought of the Prophet
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, she came to the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, at the time of
Bangladesh, when the battle of better is taking place, and she says to Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi
wa sallam ya rasool Allah, then li Phyllis we Marijke O Messenger of Allah, let me go out and battle
with you. Let me be a part of the battle with you. And she said, Omar little model bar calm and even
if it's just there to treat the sick amongst you, but I want to be there in the battlefield with
		

			you. Now when she says I want to be there in the battlefield with you. She says something very
specific. She says Landal Allah and Yasukuni Shahada. I want Allah to grant me shahada martyrdom,
the unsolved the spirit of the unsolved was wanting to be there with the Prophets lie some in his
most difficult moments. Remember the story of the man that came to the Prophet slice Allah, and said
to the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam as he was going out in the battle, and the prophets lie
some asked him What are you here for? He said, The old role will be Solomon ha ha. Now to be struck
with an arrow right here. I'm gonna be with you. And I'm gonna be struck with an arrow right here.
		

			And the Prophet sallallahu alayhi salam said it was tequila, you're stuck the truthful with Allah
and Allah will be truthful with you. Right? So Monica says to the prophets lie, so I'm pretty
explicitly I want to be a martyr. I want to be out there and I want to be a martyr with you. The
Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam responds to her and says, Korea he baited for in Allah Allah
Yasuki shahada
		

			stay in your home and trust me that Allah subhanaw taala is going to bestow upon you shahada for
Cana to Santa Shahida the prophets like some told her that you are actually going to be a murderer,
but not in the battlefield but you will be a Shahida
		

			so she actually had the nickname in the time of the prophets lie some amongst the prophets lie some
of his companions as a Shahida as the martyr so imagine walking amongst the companions and everyone
knows you're gonna be martyred, how Allah who I know, but your nickname is a Shahida. So she goes on
and she kind of occupies this position as being the female teacher of the Quran, the greatest
authority from the women of the Quran in Medina, teaching the Quran reciting the Quran, she's a half
the level the Quran, there are students of the Quran going to her and reciting to her to be
corrected. She also becomes famous for her psyllium and for her TM for her fasting en for her prayer
		

			at night. So she used to pray at night. And people would go by her home, and they could hear her
recitation at night. And all of this is very significant for
		

			the reason of how she eventually will pass the label the Allahu Taala and so on what are called the
Allahu taala. And he goes on and she maintains the status in the time Abubaker study called the law,
and she maintains the status and the time of our model, the Allahu taala. And, and her home is a
wealthy home. And her home is a home of Elena, where people go and study with her. And she aids
significantly so she became a very old woman and the time of unlimited capacity. The law I know
would suggest that she was elderly one Islam came so she's in her 60s or 70s and the time of almond
milk on top of the Allahu Taala on him and a role model the Allahu Taala and who would do his night
		

			patrols. Right? And our model the Allahu Taala and who
		

			he says in the morning one day, he says Wallah he masa Mara to Kira Taha Lottie on maraka albaraka
		

			He said, I didn't hear her Kurata last night
		

			Subhanallah like that's how much you could depend upon walking by this woman's home and hearing her
recitation of the Quran that I didn't hear the Quran of my aunt, and this was obviously an honorific
title that he was giving to her last night. And the profit slice I'm used to visit her a Shahida and
people used to say, let's go visit a Shahida or Monica let's go visit the martyr and Wanaka so
Amaro, the Allahu Taala and who went to check on her home? And essentially what had happened to
America Radi Allahu Taala and have this scholar of the Quran, this teacher of the Quran is that
because she was so wealthy,
		

			she had a male and female servant that plotted against her and basically murdered her and took all
of her wealth. So almost all the Allahu Taala and who went to her home and found that she had been
killed by a cert by two servants who basically stole all of the wealth and Subhanallah obvious
		

			The as I said there are twists and turns in this this is the half of the of the the female
companions of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, and she was murdered in her home. Subhanallah
and the prophets lie some told her she would be Shahida and Amato, the Allahu taala. And who, when
he saw her in the state, he said, sadaqa rasool Allah, He sallallahu alayhi wa sallam Mahina Kenny a
ghoul in Pali Kobina and Azuro Shahida Subhan Allah, He said, That was ALLAH Seisen was truthful
when he used to say let's go visit the martyr. Let's go visit a Shahida about the Allahu Taala and
her so Subhan Allah she's known as the half the love the half either of the female companions of the
		

			Prophet slice, and I mentioned also, you know, the circumstances under which her martyrdom took
place or shahada took place was very unique, or modeled the Allahu Taala and who himself personally
found the two that murdered her and they were executed for murdering hurdled the Allahu Tada Anton
so she had this reputation of being the murdered Halophila basically the the Shahida and Halophila
amongst the companions on the Allahu Taala