In the Name of Allâh, the Most
Beneficent, the Most Merciful
By Muhammad Alshareef
When news of the Christian army
that had prepared on the horizons to wipe out Islam reached him, Abu Qudaamah
Ash-Shaamee moved quickly to the Mimbar of the Masjid. In a powerful and
emotional speech, Abu Qudaamah ignited the desire of the community to defend
their land, Jihad for the sake of Allah. As he left the Masjid, walking
down a dark and secluded alley, a women stopped him and said, "As salamu
alaykum wa Rahmatullaah!" Abu Qudaamah stopped and did not answer.
She repeated her salam again, adding "this is not how pious people should
act." She stepped forward from the shadows. "I heard you in the
Masjid encouraging the believers to go for Jihad and all I have is this…"
She handed him two long braids. "It can be used for a horse rein.
Perhaps Allah may write me as one of those who went for Jihaad."
The next day as that Muslim
village set out to confront the crusader army, a young boy ran through the
gathering and stood at the hooves of Abu Qudaamah's horse. "I ask
you by Allah to allow me to join the army." Some of the elder fighters
laughed at the boy. "The horses will trample you," they
said. But Abu Qudaamah looked down into his eyes as he asked again,
"I ask you by Allah, let me join." Abu Qudaamah then said,
"On one condition, if you are killed you will take me with you to Jannah
amongst those you will be allowed to intercede for." That young boy
smiled. "It's a promise."
When the two armies met and the
fighting intensified, the young boy on the back of Abu Qudaamah's horse asked,
"I ask you by Allah to give me 3 arrows." "You'll lose
them!" The boy repeated, "I ask you by Allah to give me
them." Abu Qudaamah gave him the arrows and the boy took aim.
"Bismillaah!" The arrow flew and killed a Roman.
"Bismillaah!" The second arrow flew, killing a second Roman.
"Bismillaah!" The third arrow flew, killing a third Roman. An arrow
then struck the boy in the chest - knocking him off the horse. Abu
Qudaamah jumped down to his side, reminding the boy in his final breaths,
"Don't forget the promise!" The boy reached into his pocket,
extracted a pouch and said, "Please return this to my mother."
"Who's your mother?" asked Abu Qudaamah. "The women that gave
you the braids yesterday."
Think about this Muslimah.
How did she reach this level of Taqwa where she would sacrifice her hair when
today other women do the same to imitate Kafir icons, and her son when other
women would die so long as their son stayed home. Indeed, she spent her
life in the obedience of Allah, and when exam time came, she passed. Not only
did she pass herself, but her children shone with that same beauty of Iman,
children that she herself raised.
Very often - and perhaps in our
times when we have forgotten much of the Sunnah - the lectures, khutbahs, and
talks are all directed to the Muslim men. We forget that from the Hady –
guidance and way – of Rasul Allah - sal Allahu alayhi wa sallam - was that he
would allocate a specific day of the week to teach the women. Women would come
up to him in Hajj, in the street, even in his home and ask him questions about
the Deen. At the Eid Salah, after addressing the men, he would take Bilal
and go to the women section and address the women. Allah revealed an
entire Surah by the name of Surah An-Nisa – the Women. And another by the
name of – Maryam. And a third by the name of al Mujaadalah – the women
who pleads. It is in enlivening this Sunnah that today this speech shall
be addressed to the believing women, al-Mu'minaat.
Dear Sister, Dear Mother, Dear
Daughter. Everyone is looking for happiness and fun, and I am sure you
are not excluded. Where is that happiness and fun though? And where
and when do you want that happiness? Do you want happiness, do you want
to have `fun' in this life at the expense of the hereafter? Or is it in
the hereafter, when you meet Allah that you want to be happy?
Every where you go you shall
find a swarm of people and media and culture swearing to you that happiness is
the happiness of the Dunya. Is it really happiness though? On the day of
Repayment, Allah shall take the most `happiest' kafir of the Dunya and dip him
in Jahannam – Hellfire. Then he shall ask him, "Have you ever seen
any happiness?" The Kafir will say, "Never!"
Nay, the happiness is only the
happiness of the hereafter no matter what happens in this Dunya. Allah
shall bring on the Day of Repayment the most tested human and dip him in Jannah
– Paradise. He shall then ask him, "Have you ever seen
sadness?" And that person shall say, "Never!"
And don't think that this
happiness and fun is exclusive to the hereafter. It is very much tied to
this life as well. Listen and understand the words of Allah:
Whoever works righteousness,
whether male or female, while he (or she) is a true believer verily to him We
will give a good life (in this world with respect, contentment and lawful
provision), and We shall pay them certainly a reward in proportion to the best
of what they used to do (i.e. Paradise in the Hereafter). – Surah AnNahl (16/97)
Dear Sister, you have to
understand that you or anyone may enter Hellfire! By Allah, we are not
better than Fatimah, the daughter of Rasul Allah - sal Allahu alayhi wa
sallam. And he said to her, "O Fatimah the daughter of Muhammad, Ask
me whatever you wish from my wealth, for I shall avail you nothing to Allah."
Meaning that it doesn't matter if you're my daughter, if you don't work for
Jannah, saying to Allah that my father is so and so will not help you in
anyway.
Islam is filled with many
Mu'minahs that completed their Taqwa of Allah. When the other girls put
up posters of kafir singers and kafir athletes and kafir actresses, you should
put up posters in your heart of Fatimah and many other Mu'minahs.
Aasiyah, the wife of Fir'own.
Her Eeman in Allah thrived under the shadow of someone that said, "I am
your Lord, Most High!" When news reached Fir'own of his wife's Eeman he
beat her and commanded his guards to beat her. They took her out in the
scalding noon heat, tied her hands and feet and beat her perpetually. Who did
she turn to? She turned to Allah! She prayed, "My lord, build for me a
home with you in Paradise and save me from Fir'own and his deeds and save me
from the transgressive people."
It was narrated that when she
said this, the sky opened for her and she saw her home in Paradise. She smiled.
The guards watched astonished - she's being tortured and she smiles?
Frustrated, Fir'own commanded a boulder to be brought and dropped on Aasiyah,
to crush her to death. But Allah took her soul before the boulder was brought
and she became an example for all the believing men and women till the end of
time:
[And Allah has set forth an
example for those who believe: the wife of Fir'own (Pharaoh) – when she said,
"My Lord, Build for me a home with You in Paradise, and save me from
Fir'own and his deeds, and save me from the transgressive-disbelieving people.] -Tahreem 66/11
When we talk about Jihad and
Shuhadaa' - martyrs, do you know who the first Muslim in Islam to be killed in
the path of Allah was? It was Summayah, the mother of Ammar. When
Abu Jahl heard of her Islam and her husband Yaasir and her son Ammar, he
whipped them all and beat them. So much so, that Rasul Allah would pass by them
as they went through this test of their Iman and would say to them, "Be
patient O family of Yaasir, for you have a date set (when you shall enter)
Jannah!"
As Abu Jahl beat Sumayyah one
day, she refused to recant her Deen, something that enraged Abu Jahl. He took a
spear as she lay on the burning sand, looking up to the sky, and he speared her
through her midsection. She was the first of her family and the entire
Ummah to meet Allah as a Martyr.
Dear Sister, our role models
come from the Quran. You may have heard the story of the boy and
the king. When the entire village became Muslim by the death of that
young boy, the king ordered that an enormous fire be kindled and that all those
who would not recant their religion be burnt alive. A Mu'minah, stood
with her baby over the fire. She looked at her baby, and seeking her child's
weakness and innocence, she considered turning her back. The baby said to
her, "What are you waiting for mother. Go forward for you are on the
truth!" She nodded. Then with her baby in hand she was pushed
to her death.
[And they ill-treated them for
no other reason than that they believed in Allah, Exalted in Power, Worthy of
all Praise!- * Him to Whom belongs the dominion of the heavens and the earth!
And Allah is Witness to all things.]. -
Surah AlBuruj, 8,9
And dear sister, your role
models come to you from today. As her son tells us, a senior women in a
Muslim land decided that all the vanity that normally happens in the gatherings
of women was not for her. She turned to Salah and praying at night, and
in her old age, she found herself calling to her so one night from her
prayer room. He son says, "I came in and she was in Sajda saying
that she was paralysed!" Her son took her to the doctors and she began a
cycle of rehabilitation, but there was little hope. She then commanded her son
to take her back home, take her back to her prayer room, take her back to that
Sajdah. As she prayed to Allah in her sajdah, the night came when she
called to her son. "Astawdi'ukallaah alladhee laa yadee'u wa
daa'i'uh – I leave you in the trust of Allah, and whenever something is left in
Allah's trust it is never lost." She passed away in her
sajdah. Her muscles froze in that position and so they had to wash her
body as she was in Sajdah. The prayed Janazah for her as her body was in
sajdah. The carried her to the grave yard as her body was in Sajdah.
The buried her as she was in
Sajdah. And the Prophet said that we shall all be resurrected on what we
died on, she shall be resurrected on the day of judgement in Sajdah to Allah –
Jalla Jalaaluhu wa taqaddasat asmaa'uhu - because that it how she lived and
died.
Part II
There are many other stories
that we know about of powerful believing mothers, wives and sisters and many,
many that Allah only knows about. Whenever a halaqah is going on, the Muslim
women outnumber the men. At the American Open University, (www.open-university.edu)
the overwhelming majority of students are Muslim women. Go to an Islamic
teachers/schools conference, attend a lecture and you shall see the mismatch of
sisters to brothers. Sometimes it is sad to see all these brothers
lacking the motivation that many Muslimahs have. But if there is a
beautiful sign in all this, it is that – in sha' Allah ta'ala – those sisters
are going to raise an army of believing men and women in the coming generation.
WAllahu akbar!
When Imam Ahmad was still young,
his father died. He would tell his students of the work his mother went
through in raising him, and he would pray for her. In the cold Baghdad
nights, she would wake long before him to warm the water so that her son Ahmad
could make wudu for Fajr. Then she would wrap him in blankets, herself
cloaked in her Jilbaab, and guide him through the dark, cold alleys to reach
the main Masjid, long before Fajr so that her son could get a good seat in
class. Her son Ahmad - at that age in grade 2 or 3 - would sit all day
long studying Quran and Sunnah, and she would wait for him to finish so that
she could drop him home safely. At the age of 16, she prepared money and
food for him and told him, "Travel for your search of
knowledge." He left for Makkah and Madinah and many other places and
et many great scholars. She raised Ahmad to become one of the four
greatest Imams in Islam.
Dear sister, after all this, ask
a non-Muslim what it is that he wants from you? Does he want you to be
liberated? Liberated from what? From Allah and his Messenger? From
the Quran and the Sunnah? From Jannah? From this deen that Allah
chose for you?
And what is he going to give you
in return? Happinness? By Allah, he does not own any happiness to
give. Is he going to give you love and protection from punishment in the
grave and from the gateke pers of hellfire and from death? Why is it that
they want to liberate young beautiful women? Why don't they liberate the
seniors? Why don't they liberate the indigenous? Why don't they
liberate the inmates? Why is their target audience a young and skinny and
tall women (their definition of beauty) between the age of 13 – 28? And
why is their first call for you to take off your Hijab?
Remember that friend – if you
consider him so – carefully, for – without any doubt, by Allah - he shall be
your bitterest enemy on the day of Repayment:
[Friends on that day will be
foes, one to another - except the Righteous] -
Surah Zukhruf (43/67)
One Kafirah summed up exactly
what they think of women, "It's not who you are, it's what you wear and
what you look like!" And listen to Fabian, a french `model' (of
what?), as she spit on the fashion industry. "Fashion houses made me into
a mannequin, a wooden idol. The mission: to manipulate hearts and alter
minds. I learnt how to be worthless, nothing on the inside, cold.
We lived in a world of filth in all that filth means."
When the Prophet - sal Allahu
alayhi wa sallam - stood on the plain of Arafah and gave his farewell speech he
said to the Ummah, "Treat the women kindly!" History records
that in Europe in the same year, at the same time that Islam was saying this,
the Christian clergy were arguing hether a women was a human or an animal!
Those clergymen are the ancestors of the Kuffar that now want to `liberate'
you.
There is much more than can be
said. I shall conclude with the advice of Rasul Allah - sal Allahu alayhi
wa sallam - to every Muslim mother, daughter, and wife: "If the women
prays her five (Salah), fasts her month (of Ramadan), protects herself (from
committing Zina), and listens to her husband, it will be said to her, `from any
door you wish, enter Paradise!" Sister, that is where you want to
be.
[O ye who believe! give your
response to Allah and His Messenger, when He calls you to that which shall give
you life; and know that Allah cometh between a man and his heart, and that it
is He to Whom ye shall (all) be gathered.] -
Surah Anfal 8/24
Allah and His Messenger are
calling you to life. Dear sister, reply!
Courtesy of:
kalamullah.com
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