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| More lovin' :) Where is our Khadija, Radia Allahu |
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| 03/14/04 at 20:06:52 |
| Where is our Khadija, Radia Allahu Anha? by Rami Mahmoud Elsawah Our Prophet Muhammed(SAW) and our Sayidda Khadija(RAA) were the greatest example of how two people’s love for Allah, and love for each other, can make people truly great. I challenge any one of us to be the way they were, to live together the way they lived together, to love each other as they loved each other. If we but only clean out our hearts and open are eyes, maybe, just maybe, we will have a chance. Insha Allah…may we find our peace. Sisters, do you want to rise to greatness? If you do then there are some outstanding characteristics about our Sayidda Khadija that you should really take a look at. They are her distaste for the Dunya and her desire for Akhira, the hereafter…and her love for Allah and for the messenger of Allah, peace and blessing be upon him, and her Ridda. I spoke about Ridda to you last week, and I hope it benefited you. Abu Huraira reported that Gabriel came to Allah's Apostle (may peace be upon him) and said: Allah's Messenger, lo. Khadija is coming to you with a vessel of seasoned food or drink. When she comes to you, offer her greetings from her Lord, the Exalted and Glorious, and on my behalf and give her glad tidings of a palace of jewels in Paradise wherein there is no noise and no toil. Usually when we think of those who suffered in the days of the rising of Islam we think of Abu Bakr, we think of Omar, Ali, Abu Huraira, and Bilal; Radia Allahu Anhum, May Allah be pleased with them all. All of them loved Allah and his Messenger…and subsequently, all were subjected to poverty. I mean severe poverty. Yet so did the women; their wives, their daughters, their sisters, and their mothers. Look back at Sayidda Khadija (R.A.A) and look at what she went through. This is a woman whom in her late fifties and early sixties (the equivalent of maybe seventy-five or eighty years old today) going from a pretty comfortable life to literally nothing, and I mean absolutely nothing; Even her daughters were forcibly divorced from their husbands. Sayidda Khadija never complained….never said so much a peep of dissatisfaction. That is because she was excellent in her faith, she was of the strongest of Iman, and she cared for nothing else than to please Allah and to please his Messenger, peace and blessing be upon him. Many of us men, as you will see Sisters…can either be thrown off or set straight in our Iman solely from the character of our wives. That is why I am being so hard on you. Ladies, you were given the mastery of language and the beauty of emotion…what would you use it for? To complain…or to praise. To support…or to put down. To make your family better Muslims or to lead them astray. That is all in complete dependence on your Iman. Your actions are will be your representatives. You know what is asked of you…the question is do you follow it. A good wife is the one who will see her entire family in Jannah and be able to say…”I pushed them there…I used the tools Allah gave me to make them better…I am the reason my family is here…truly all glory is to Allah…who has guided us to be believers.” “Marry those among you who are single, and the virtuous ones among your slaves, male or female: If they are in poverty, Allah will give them means out of His grace; for Allah is Ample-giving, and He knoweth all things.” (Surat An-Nur, 24:32). continued at [a href=http://www.hidayaonline.com/archives/000044.html]Hidaya[/url] http://www.hidayaonline.com/archives/000044.html |
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