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jannah

01/16/01 at 02:13:19

A message from a noble brother I received in email:

Please allow me 5 minutes & forgive me

Assalaamu Alaikum Wa Rahmatullahi Wa Barakatu,

Verily all Praise and thanks are due to Allah alone and may the Peace
and Blessings of Allah be upon His messenger. With what proceeds.

Dear Brothers/Sisters, I never actually wrote to you before, I usually try
to forward e-mails I feel might help you achieve good in this life as well
as the next, but I have had stuff hanging on my chest and I want to
share it with you. First let me start by mentioning a quick story about
Hafsa Bint Umar (Radhiullah 3n Huma). She was the daughter of
Umar ibn al-Khattab. Allah (azawajal) supported Islam by means of
her Father. She was beautiful and a pious women. She got married to
Khunis ibn Hudhafa Ibn Qays as-Sahami who was from Quraish. He
was a part of the two emigrations (Abyssinia and Madina). He fought
in Badr and Uhud. In the latter battle he was fatally wounded and died
shortly thereafter (Radhiullah 3nhu). Hafsa was 18 by that time.

Umar was depressed for his daughter's affliction who became a widow
at such a young age. Whenever he went home and saw his sad
daughter, he grieved. After a long period of thinking he decided to
choose a husband for her to provide her with what she had lost of
repose along 6 months or more.

He first choose Abu Bakr (Radhiullah 3nhu) the dearest person to the
Prophet (Sallahu 3laihi Wasallam). Umar at once went to Abu Bakr to
offer him his daughter for marriage. Umar thought that Abu Bakr would
not refuse to marry a young pious woman who was the daughter of the
man by whom Allah supported Islam. Having sympathetically listened
to him, Abu Bakr did not respond.

Umar went back with a broken heart and almost did not believe what
had happened. He then went to Uthman Ibn Affan whose wife,
Ruqayya (Radhiullah 3nha), the daughter of the Prophet (Sallahu 3laihi
Wasallam) had recently died. Having offered him his daughter to
marry, he apologized by saying, "I think I would not like to marry at the
present time."

Umar's gloom Increased by Uthman's refusal, which followed by Abu
Bakr's. He became angry with his to companions. He then went to
the Prophet of Allah (Sallahu 3laihi Wasallam) complaining about Abu
Bakr and Uthman. Therupon the Prophet (Sallahu 3laihi Wasallam)
smiled and said "Hafsa will get married to someone who is better than
Uthman and Uthman will get Married to someone who is better than
Hafsa." (Bukhari)

Accordingly Umar was elated to receive such a great honor which he
never thought about. He went off to tell whomever he met. When Abu
Bakr met him, he realized the source of his joy. Therefore, he
congratulated him and apologized by saying, " Do not be angry with me
ya Umar. The Prophet has mentioned Hafsa before and I could not
disclose the Prophet's (Sallahu 3laihi Wasallam) secret. Had he left
her, I would have married her. "

All people in Madina was pleased with the Prophet's marriage to Hafsa
bint Umar. It was contracted in the month of Sha'ban in the 3rd year of
Hijrah. They blessed the marriage of Uthman to Umm Kulthum bint
Muhammad (Sallahu 3laihi Wasallam) in the month of Jumada
al-Akhirah in the same ear as well. Thus, Hafsa joined the rank of the
Prophet's pure wives, mothers of the faithful who were by then, Sawdah
and Aisha (Radhiullah 3n Huma).

Among the other wives of the Prophet (Sallahu 3laihi Wasallam), Aisha
was the most intimate and closest one to Hafsa. His father, once said
to her, "How would you be like Aisha and how would your father be like
hers?

It is Hafsa and Aisha who backed up each other against the Prophet
(Sallahu 3laihi Wasallam). Consequently Allah the almighty said: "If
you two turn in repentance to Allah, your hearts are indeed so
inclined; but of you back up each other against him, truly Allah
is his protector and Gabriel." {Tagrim:4}

It is narrated that the Prophet (Sallahu 3laihi Wasallam) divorced
Hafsa once when she backed up against him. then he (Sallahu 3laihi
Wasallam) took her back according to Jabreel's command: "Take
Hafsa back; she fasts and prays in the night all the time." Hafsa
realized the gravity of what she had done to her noble husband when
she disclosed his secret. But after the Prophet forgave her, she lived
in tranquility and repose again.

When the Prophet (Sallahu 3laihi Wasallam) died and Abu Bakr
(Radhiullah 3nhu) succeeded him, it was Hafsa who was chosen to
keep the first copy of the Noble Qur'an. She kept on worshipping Allah
devoutly, fasting, praying,and keeping the copy of the Muslims
constitution, the immortal miracle and the source of legislation and
belief.

When her father the caliph of the Muslims felt he was about to die after
he was stabbed by Abu Lu'Lu'a the Zoroastrian in the month of
Dhul-Hijjah 23 AH, Hafsa was the guard of what he left of inheritance.

She (Radhiullah 3nha) died in Mu'awiyah ibn Sufyan's (Radhiullah
3nhu) era after she commanded her brother Abdullah with what she
had been commanded by her father. May Allah be pleased with the
guard of the Qur'an, Ameen.

I know it may be a little late but, I wanted to share this story with you
because I was reflecting on the dream Sheikh Fowzan, one of the
students of sheikh Uthaimeen from the Mahad in Fairfax VA., had for
the last couple of days since he death of the Mujhaid and Zahid,
Sheikh Uthaimenn (Raheemahullah). A couple of hours before he died
Sheikh Fowzan dreamt he went to go visit him at his house. He said
the house was very big like a castle. There he saw the sheikh taller
than usual and very bright and healthy. He looked with amazement
and asked the sheikh (Raheemahullah) to explain all of what he is
seeing. Sheikh Uthaimeen said "Hadha min fadhlirubbi" (This is from
the Bounty of My Lord.) He took sheikh Fowazan's hand and showed
him gardens that went beyond what the eye can see. To shorten the
story, Sheikh Fowzan woke up and called other scholars of Ilm, and he
concluded either the sheikh's condition would be better or he would die
soon. About four hours later one of the guardians of the Sunnah in our
times, Sheikh Uthaimeen died.

My conclusion is this. I notice that every pious person deticated to
Allah has died in a noble position in life. As the Prophet (Sallahu 3laihi
Wasallam) said to humanity "You are Allah's witnesses on earth." I
have been reflecting on how Blessed the sheikh is now and those who
died before him who preserved this deen (insha'Allah). I thought to
myself how I envied to be in his position so bad rather than the state I
was in now in meeting my Lord. I got depressed for a moment and
realized that I most likely will not reach his level specially at the rate I
am moving. So I felt, "then how will I go to Jennah????"

I came to the conclusion that either I have to go in path of Allah and/or
try my best to help spread the dawah by rolling up my selves higher
and getting more involved in helping institutes like Dar al-Arqam that
are pushing the religion of Allah and the Sunnah of His messenger
(Sallahu 3laihi Wasallam). I am no sheikh and don't know how far I will
go in this life with my obedience to Allah (Azawajal) so why wait and
see? I will continue trying to enjoin the good and forbid the evil till then
isnah'Allah. In saying this brothers/sisters there is a lot of Islam and
there are a lot of people and Allah does not need our help. Wallahi we
need Allah. So you can be one of the two types of people, either the
type who talk about things that are happening, or the type who make
things happen while others talk.

Let us stop looking for each other's short comings, stop comparing our
selves to the people of this world and time, and compare our selves to
the Salaf us Sauliheen (Pious Predecessors) and realize where we
stand with Allah. I think if more of us (Myself so included) would just
look at our sins serriously and who we are sinnig against, this should
silence us and wake us up. I ask Allah to guide me and the all the
Muslims to the straight path, the path of Allah and His Messenger and
those who followed it with caution, Ameen.

Please pass this to others if you fell there is benefit in it, and my Lord
surely knows Best.

Your brother,

Nabil Gharbieh
nabil@gharbieh.com

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That which you have been given is but a fleeting comfort of this life.
Better and more enduring is that which Allah has for those who believe and put their trust in Him; who avoid gross sins and indecencies and, when angered, are willing to forgive; who obey their Lord, attend to their prayers, and conduct their affairs by mutual consent; who give in wealth a part of that which We have given them and, when oppressed, seek to redress their wrongs. [Al-Qur'an, Sura: 42 (Ash-Shura), Ayat: 36-39]

Re: I found this quite moving & beautiful
bhaloo

01/16/01 at 10:33:05

slm

That was really beautiful, I'm passing it on.

Re: I found this quite moving & beautiful
haaris

01/17/01 at 07:30:39

Salaam,

Alhamdulillah, very inspiring. Just as an aside, to whom was Uthman married that was better than Hafsa?

Re: I found this quite moving & beautiful
jannah

01/17/01 at 09:54:54

Uthman ra was lucky enough to marry two of the daughters of the prophet saw. (not at the same time) I think Ruqayya and Umm Kulthum but don't quote me...

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