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Princesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02008181033202521006noreply@blogger.comBlogger770125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7822459990247959403.post-87429406718538709092021-04-21T14:19:00.002+02:002021-04-21T14:19:25.441+02:00The Mindset of the One Engaging in Du‘aa - Dua'a Series Part Two<p> <span style="text-align: justify;">Allah Ta‘ala has created this world as a place of systems. </span><span style="color: firebrick; text-align: justify;">If any person wishes to acquire or achieve something, he adopts the means, follows the system, trusts in Allah Ta‘ala, and then if the outcome was destined for him by Allah Ta‘ala, he will be successful in attaining it.</span><span style="text-align: justify;"> Thus, we find that when a person wants a child, there is a system of nikaah that is followed, after which a child may be born, nine months later. Likewise, if a person wants money, there is a system of working and earning that is in place.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"> In the very same way, it is the system of Allah Ta‘ala that the more one follows the sunnah in his life, and <span style="color: firebrick;">the more adab (respect and etiquette) one adopts, the more blessings and acceptance one will enjoy.</span> This applies to all departments of life such as nikaah, acquiring the knowledge of Deen, engaging in ‘ibaadah, etc. Hence, this important principle applies when making du‘aa as well.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"> Thus, when we wish to place our needs before Allah Ta‘ala in du‘aa, we should adhere to the sunnahs and etiquettes of du‘aa. By doing so, it is more likely that our du‘aa will be answered.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: firebrick;">Among the first etiquettes of du‘aa is that at the time of making du‘aa, we must express our helplessness, desperation and weakness before Allah Ta‘ala.</span> Allah Ta‘ala instructs in the Quraan Majeed, “Make du‘aa to your Rabb with humility…” <em>(Surah Aa’raaf v55) </em></p><p style="text-align: justify;"> When we view the wording of the du‘aa that Nabi Zakariyya (‘alaihis salaam) made to Allah Ta‘ala, despite him being a great Nabi of Allah Ta‘ala, yet we find it filled with expressions of weakness. Nabi Zakariyya (‘alaihis salaam) addressed Allah Ta‘ala saying, “O my Rabb! Indeed, my bones have become weak and my head has filled with white hair…” <em>(Surah Maryam v4)</em></p><p style="text-align: justify;"> Likewise, when Rasulullah (sallallahu ‘alaihi wasallam) made du‘aa to Allah Ta‘ala after being persecuted in Taa-if, though he was the closest to Allah Ta‘ala and the greatest of all His creation, he also expressed his weakness before Allah Ta‘ala. Rasulullah (sallallahu ‘alaihi wasallam) addressed Allah Ta‘ala saying, “O Allah! To You alone do I complain of the feebleness of my strength, and the scarcity of my resources, and my insignificance in the eyes of people!” <em>(Ad Du‘aa lit Tabraani #1036)</em></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: firebrick;">Nevertheless, together with expressing our weakness and absolute dependence on Allah Ta‘ala, we must also remain hopeful in the mercy of Allah Ta‘ala and should have conviction that Allah Ta‘ala will accept our du‘aa.</span> Hence, after expressing his weakness, Nabi Zakariyya (‘alaihis salaam) addressed Allah Ta‘ala with hope saying, “And O my Rabb, I never remained unanswered in my du‘aa to You.” <em>(Surah Maryam v4)</em></p><p style="text-align: justify;"> In one hadeeth, Rasulullah (sallallahu ‘alaihi wasallam) said, “Make du‘aa to Allah Ta‘ala with the conviction that your du‘aa will be accepted.” <em>(Sunan Tirmizi #3479)</em> Similarly, Rasulullah (sallallahu ‘alaihi wasallam) mentioned in another hadeeth that a person will continue to have his du‘aa accepted, so long as he is not hasty. Being hasty is where the one making du‘aa says “I made du‘aa but my du‘aa was not answered.” <em>(Saheeh Bukhaari #6340)</em></p><p style="text-align: justify;"> Thus, we should continue to make du‘aa to Allah Ta‘ala and should never lose hope. <span style="color: firebrick;">Furthermore, we should not only turn to Him in times of difficulty and hardship, but should make du‘aa to Him in times of prosperity, ease and comfort as well.</span> Rasulullah (sallallahu ‘alaihi wasallam) said, “The one who desires that his du‘aas be answered at the time of difficulties and hardships should make abundant du‘aa at the time of ease.” <em>(Sunan Tirmizi #3382)</em></p><p style="text-align: justify;"> Finally, when making du‘aa to Allah Ta‘ala, we must bear in mind that we are conversing with Him. We are speaking to Him and appealing to Him for help and assistance, and He is listening to our every word. Allah Ta‘ala mentions in the Quraan Majeed, “When My servants ask you about Me, then (tell them that) I am near. I respond to the call of one when he prays to Me.” <em>(Surah Baqarah v186)</em></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: firebrick;">Thus, when making du‘aa, we must remain attentive and focused. We must not lose concentration and allow our minds to drift, or begin to fidget and look around, etc.</span> Rasulullah (sallallahu ‘alaihi wasallam) mentioned, “Know that Allah Ta‘ala does not accept the du‘aa which is made with an inattentive, unfocused heart.” <em>(Sunan Tirmizi #3479)</em></p><p style="text-align: justify;"> Insha-Allah, in the next part, the sunnah method of making du‘aa will be discussed.</p>Princesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02008181033202521006noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7822459990247959403.post-33772795889436756012021-04-21T14:17:00.002+02:002021-04-21T14:17:10.409+02:00Guaranteed Results - Dua'a Series Part One<p> </p><p style="line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Allah Ta‘ala has created this world as a place of systems. </span><span style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: firebrick; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">If any person wishes to acquire or achieve something, he adopts
the means, follows the system, trusts in Allah Ta‘ala, and then if the outcome
was destined for him by Allah Ta‘ala, he will be successful in attaining it.</span></span><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> Thus,
we find that when a person wants a child, there is a system of nikaah that is
followed, after which a child may be born, nine months later. Likewise, if a
person wants money, there is a system of working and earning that is in place.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; outline: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">In the very same way, it is the system of Allah
Ta‘ala that the more one follows the sunnah in his life, and </span><span style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: firebrick; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">the more adab (respect and etiquette) one adopts, the more
blessings and acceptance one will enjoy.</span></span><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> This applies to all
departments of life such as nikaah, acquiring the knowledge of Deen, engaging
in ‘ibaadah, etc. Hence, this important principle applies when making du‘aa as
well.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 12.0pt; outline: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Thus, when
we wish to place our needs before Allah Ta‘ala in du‘aa, we should adhere to
the sunnahs and etiquettes of du‘aa. By doing so, it is more likely that our
du‘aa will be answered.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; outline: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: firebrick; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">Among the
first etiquettes of du‘aa is that at the time of making du‘aa, we must express
our helplessness, desperation and weakness before Allah Ta‘ala.</span></span><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> Allah
Ta‘ala instructs in the Quraan Majeed, “Make du‘aa to your Rabb with humility…” <em style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">(Surah Aa’raaf v55)</span></em><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; outline: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">When we view the wording of the du‘aa that Nabi
Zakariyya (‘alaihis salaam) made to Allah Ta‘ala, despite him being a great
Nabi of Allah Ta‘ala, yet we find it filled with expressions of weakness. Nabi
Zakariyya (‘alaihis salaam) addressed Allah Ta‘ala saying, “O my Rabb! Indeed,
my bones have become weak and my head has filled with white hair…” <em style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">(Surah Maryam v4)</span></em><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; outline: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p style="line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; outline: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Likewise, when Rasulullah (sallallahu ‘alaihi
wasallam) made du‘aa to Allah Ta‘ala after being persecuted in Taa-if, though
he was the closest to Allah Ta‘ala and the greatest of all His creation, he
also expressed his weakness before Allah Ta‘ala. Rasulullah (sallallahu ‘alaihi
wasallam) addressed Allah Ta‘ala saying, “O Allah! To You alone do I complain
of the feebleness of my strength, and the scarcity of my resources, and my
insignificance in the eyes of people!” <em style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">(Ad Du‘aa lit Tabraani #1036)</span></em><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; outline: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: firebrick; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; outline: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: firebrick; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">Nevertheless,
together with expressing our weakness and absolute dependence on Allah Ta‘ala,
we must also remain hopeful in the mercy of Allah Ta‘ala and should have
conviction that Allah Ta‘ala will accept our du‘aa.</span></span><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> Hence,
after expressing his weakness, Nabi Zakariyya (‘alaihis salaam) addressed Allah
Ta‘ala with hope saying, “And O my Rabb, I never remained unanswered in my
du‘aa to You.” <em style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">(Surah Maryam v4)</span></em><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; outline: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">In one hadeeth, Rasulullah (sallallahu ‘alaihi
wasallam) said, “Make du‘aa to Allah Ta‘ala with the conviction that your du‘aa
will be accepted.” <em style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">(Sunan Tirmizi #3479)</span></em> Similarly, Rasulullah
(sallallahu ‘alaihi wasallam) mentioned in another hadeeth that a person will
continue to have his du‘aa accepted, so long as he is not hasty. Being hasty is
where the one making du‘aa says “I made du‘aa but my du‘aa was not answered.” <em style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">(Saheeh Bukhaari #6340)</span></em><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; outline: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p style="line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; outline: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Thus, we should continue to make du‘aa to Allah
Ta‘ala and should never lose hope. </span><span style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: firebrick; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">Furthermore,
we should not only turn to Him in times of difficulty and hardship, but should
make du‘aa to Him in times of prosperity, ease and comfort as well.</span></span><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> Rasulullah
(sallallahu ‘alaihi wasallam) said, “The one who desires that his du‘aas be
answered at the time of difficulties and hardships should make abundant du‘aa
at the time of ease.” <em style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">(Sunan Tirmizi #3382)</span></em><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; outline: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p style="line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; outline: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Finally, when making du‘aa to Allah Ta‘ala, we
must bear in mind that we are conversing with Him. We are speaking to Him and
appealing to Him for help and assistance, and He is listening to our every
word. Allah Ta‘ala mentions in the Quraan Majeed, “When My servants ask you
about Me, then (tell them that) I am near. I respond to the call of one when he
prays to Me.” <em style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">(Surah Baqarah v186)</span></em><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; outline: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: firebrick; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">Thus,
when making du‘aa, we must remain attentive and focused. We must not lose
concentration and allow our minds to drift, or begin to fidget and look around,
etc.</span></span><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> Rasulullah (sallallahu ‘alaihi wasallam) mentioned, “Know
that Allah Ta‘ala does not accept the du‘aa which is made with an inattentive,
unfocused heart.” <em style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">(Sunan Tirmizi #3479)</span></em><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 12.0pt; outline: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p style="line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 12.0pt; outline: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Insha-Allah,
in the next part, the sunnah method of making du‘aa will be discussed.<o:p></o:p></span></p>Princesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02008181033202521006noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7822459990247959403.post-77909095356225442302021-04-19T14:30:00.009+02:002021-04-19T14:31:22.308+02:00Ramadaan Series 1442<p> </p><h2 style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #94c05a; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: 15.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #94c05a; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;"><a href="http://uswatulmuslimah.co.za/general/pious-women/3088-a-compassionate-mother-to-all.html">A Compassionate Mother to All</a></span><o:p></o:p></span></h2><h2 style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #94c05a; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: 15.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></h2>
<p align="right" class="buttonheading" style="float: right; line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; outline: 0px; text-align: right; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #a24c6b; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 7.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;"><br />
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<p style="line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; outline: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: dimgrey; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;"><span style="outline: 0px;">(Mother of Mufti Ebrahim Salejee [daamat
barakaatuhum] – Part One)</span></span></em><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; outline: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: dimgrey; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;"><span style="outline: 0px;"><br /></span></span></em></p>
<p style="line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; outline: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Makkiyyah Aapa (rahimahallah) would show great
affection to young children and was always concerned about their wellbeing and
progress. </span><span style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: firebrick; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">Hence, she would show deep
consideration for children and would continuously monitor them, guiding and
correcting them with love. She would even share valuable parenting tips with
the parents.</span></span><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> Furthermore, she was blessed with a sense of humour due to
which children would feel comfortable in her company.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; outline: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; outline: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">The extent of consideration which she showed to
young children can perhaps be gauged by the fact that during the annual jalsah
of Madrasah Ta’leemuddeen (for which the ladies are hosted at her home), she
would ensure that fruit would be cut and served during the programme. </span><span style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: firebrick; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">She knew that the jalsah program is lengthy and realized that
children become hungry very quickly. Hence, she did this to ensure that the
children would be comfortable and would not be inconvenienced.</span></span><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; outline: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p style="line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; outline: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Allah Ta‘ala had blessed her with a good
understanding of ‘child psychology’ (i.e. the temperament of a child and the
manner in which a child thinks, etc.). </span><span style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: firebrick; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">It was in
light of this that she would caution mothers against continuously reproaching
and scolding their children. She would explain to them that doing so causes the
children to become more obstinate, stubborn and rebellious.</span></span><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> Likewise,
she would advise that when conducting ta’leem at home with the children, then
more focus should be on Jannah and reward than on Jahannum and punishment, as
children become easily scared and despondent.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; outline: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: firebrick; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; outline: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: firebrick; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">She also
stressed upon the importance of instilling hayaa and the qualities of imaan
into children right from their childhood.</span></span><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> Hence, in regard to
clothing, she disliked children wearing branded clothing, especially when it
had writing, logos, etc. on it. Likewise, she disliked boys wearing red or
shiny clothing. She would advise the mothers to get kurtas sewn for the boys
using cool, dark-coloured, cotton fabric, and loose-fitting, modest dresses for
girls. </span><span style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: firebrick; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">She abhorred tight-fitting,
body-hugging clothing, and insisted that all women dress modestly with long
flowing garments.</span></span><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; outline: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p style="line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; outline: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">In fact, if she saw anyone in the family wearing
incorrect clothing such as short sleeves or short dresses, </span><span style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: firebrick; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">she would immediately reprimand them and ask them to go and change
their clothing. She would also instruct the females to wear a long and broad
scarf so that their chests would not become exposed.</span></span><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> Furthermore,
she did not like young girls to ride bicycles, and would emphasize upon young
children covering their heads while eating.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 12.0pt; outline: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">It was due
to this very same concern of hers (i.e. that the upbringing of the children
should not be spoiled and they should not be exposed to unsuitable influences)
that she would discourage that children be sent on holidays without their
parents – even to family homes. Rather, she would explain that the parents must
remain with their children.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; outline: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Through her experience and foresight, she
understood the future needs of a young girl in making a home and marriage. </span><span style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: firebrick; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">With this in mind, she would encourage those mothers who had
daughters of marriageable age to entrust all the domestic duties to them</span></span><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> (the
cooking, cleaning of the house, etc.). This was to train them to run their own
home. It was in light of this that she would say, </span><span style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: firebrick; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">“If a woman is proficient in two things, cooking and sewing, then
she will be a queen in her home.”</span></span><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; outline: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p style="line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; outline: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">There were two further aspects that she would
encourage regarding children. The first was that mothers awaken their young
children (seven years and older) for Fajr Salaah. </span><span style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: firebrick; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">She would explain that when this is the best part of the day and
it contains abundant blessings, then children should not be deprived of these
blessings.</span></span><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> The second was the importance of children becoming fluent
in speaking their mother-tongue. She would explain that there is no need to
teach them to speak English as they will automatically learn English through
interacting with others.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; outline: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;"><br /></span></strong></p><p style="line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; outline: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">Lessons:</span></strong><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; outline: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: firebrick; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">1. A
person’s childhood is the period in which one is moulded for life.</span></span><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> Understanding
this, Makkiyyah Aapa (rahimahallah) was very particular regarding the
upbringing of children. </span><span style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: firebrick; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">She
remained vigilant at all times and constantly corrected the children when they
erred.</span></span><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> However, she did not continuously scold the children, but
rather corrected them with compassion.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; outline: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">2. Parents are cautioned to always keep their
children under their watchful gaze, as a kidnapping can occur in mere seconds. </span><span style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: firebrick; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">Similarly, the kidnapping of the imaan can also take place in mere
seconds, through exposure to unsuitable influences,</span></span><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> and
this is why she was concerned about the children being under the constant
supervision of their parents.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; outline: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">3. Every person is born with the quality of
hayaa i.e. it is intrinsic and instinctive in each person. </span><span style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: firebrick; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">However, due to upbringing, many people are sadly stripped of
their hayaa and are taught to behave in an immodest manner. </span></span><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Hence,
Makkiyyah Aapa (rahimahallah) ensured that the hayaa of the children was
safeguarded from their infancy, </span><span style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: firebrick; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">as it is
very difficult to instil hayaa into the child when he/she is older.</span></span><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> For
example, if the girl grew up wearing short-sleeve t-shirts, she may find it
difficult to leave this type of clothing later on.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; outline: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: firebrick; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">4. The
wise parent is that parent who equips their child for all that he/she will
require in life.</span></span><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> Hence, Makkiyyah Aapa (rahimahallah) placed emphasis on
young girls gaining proficiency in running a home, as this will be her primary
responsibility after marriage.<o:p></o:p></span></p>Princesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02008181033202521006noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7822459990247959403.post-57397879438232681422021-04-16T10:23:00.005+02:002021-04-16T10:26:58.448+02:00Ramdaan Series 1442<p> <em style="text-align: justify;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: dimgrey; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">Sayyiduna Hakeem bin Hizaam
[radhiyallahu ‘anhu] </span></em></p>
<p style="line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; outline: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Abu Haazim (rahimahullah) mentions, “We did not
hear of any person in the blessed city of Madeenah Munawwarah </span><span style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: firebrick; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">who would sponsor more animals to serve as conveyances in the path
of Allah Ta‘ala than Sayyiduna Hakeem bin Hizaam (radhiyallahu ‘anhu).”</span></span><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 12.0pt; outline: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Abu Haazim
(rahimahullah) then narrated the following incident:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 12.0pt; outline: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">On one
occasion, two Bedouins came to Madeenah Munawwarah, seeking a person who would
provide them with conveyances to go out in the path of Allah Ta‘ala. On
enquiry, they were directed to Sayyiduna Hakeem bin Hizaam (radhiyallahu
‘anhu).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 12.0pt; outline: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">When they
came to his home and presented their need to him, he said to them, “Do not
hurry, I will come out shortly.” He then picked up his stick and came out with
two of his slaves.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; outline: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">He then proceeded to walk with them, and
whenever he passed by a pile of dirt or a heap of rubbish, and saw a strip of
cloth that could be used in preparing the saddle and other equipment of the
camels that were used as conveyances in the path of Allah Ta‘ala, </span><span style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: firebrick; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">he would use the tip of his staff to pick it up. He would then
shake the strip of cloth (in order to remove the dust and dirt from it), after
which he would give it to his two slaves, instructing them to keep it with the
other possessions in their equipment.</span></span><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 12.0pt; outline: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Observing
this, one Bedouin said to the other, “By Allah, (how can this man help us when
it seems that he is so poor that) he only possesses the strips of old material
that he finds and picks up!” However, his companion said to him, “Do not be
hasty (in jumping to conclusions)! Let us see what transpires.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; outline: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: firebrick; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">They
continued to the market where Sayyiduna Hakeem (radhiyallahu ‘anhu) saw two
large, fat, pregnant she-camels that were for sale. He purchased the two camels
together with their saddles and equipment.</span></span><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> He then said to his two
slaves, “Use those strips of cloth to repair any portion of the equipment that
requires mending.” Thereafter, he loaded the two animals with food, wheat and
fat, after which he handed the two camels to the two Bedouins, together with
money for their expenses.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; outline: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; outline: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">On seeing the generosity of Sayyiduna Hakeem
(radhiyallahu ‘anhu), the two Bedouins were amazed. One said to the other, </span><span style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: firebrick; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">“By Allah! Never have I seen a man who picks up discarded strips
of cloth who is better than the one I saw today</span></span><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> (i.e.
despite him picking up discarded strips of cloth, which is normally the quality
of one who is very poor and unable to help others, he is wealthy and spends
abundantly upon others)!”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; outline: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">(Tabraani - Majma‘uz Zawaaid #16017)</span></em><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; outline: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;"><br /></span></strong></p><p style="line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; outline: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">Lessons:</span></strong><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; outline: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">1. When a person acquires abundant wealth, then
generally, one of the first concerns he has is to invest it, thus ensuring that
it remains secure and also increases. </span><span style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: firebrick; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">In this
regard, the best ‘investment’ is the investment of the Hereafter through
spending in the path of Allah Ta‘ala to support works of righteousness.</span></span><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> This
investment will never depreciate and lose value, and will always remain safe
and secure. </span><span style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: firebrick; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">Furthermore, this investment
will assist us on the Day of Qiyaamah when our wealth of the world will have no
value whatsoever.</span></span><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; outline: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: firebrick; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;"><br /></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; outline: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">2. Sayyiduna Hakeem (radhiyallahu ‘anhu) was
extremely wealthy, and he was very generous as well. </span><span style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: firebrick; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">Perhaps the reason for him being blessed with so much of wealth by
Allah Ta‘ala was that he valued every bounty of Allah Ta‘ala – to the extent
that he even valued the strips of material that others had discarded and tried
to find use for them.</span></span><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> If we value and appreciate the ‘small’
bounties of Allah Ta‘ala, then He will bless us with more bounties and greater
bounties. Thus, we should ensure that we clean our plates and utensils after
eating, eat the crumbs that fall on the dastarkhaan, etc. Likewise, instead of
discarding the 10c coin we receive as change, we should keep it or at least
give it to someone else who will benefit from it.<o:p></o:p></span></p>Princesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02008181033202521006noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7822459990247959403.post-39452809097560113602021-04-14T14:36:00.005+02:002021-04-14T14:36:50.514+02:00Ramadaan Series 1442<p><br /></p><p style="line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: dimgrey; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;"><span style="outline: 0px;">Du‘aa Series – Part One</span></span></em></p>
<p style="line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; outline: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p style="line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; outline: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">As we traverse the journey of life, we find that
the entire road is not scenic and picturesque. Rather, the road is
intermittently dotted with various hurdles and challenges. </span><span style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: firebrick; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">In these moments of difficulty, each person looks around him,
imploring assistance and seeking a helping hand.</span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; outline: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p style="line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; outline: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">When we ask any person for help, then it always
has disadvantages. He may assist us, but it may be done grudgingly. If he
assists us happily and wholeheartedly, then he may be prepared to render
assistance once, twice or maybe thrice. </span><span style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: firebrick; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">If we
thereafter implore him for further assistance, he may become irritated, or may
even lack the means and resources to help us further. At times, we wish to ask
a person for help, but the person is inaccessible and cannot be contacted.</span></span><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> Often,
a person renders assistance, but thereafter reminds you of his favour and
regards you to be indebted to him. Sometimes, we mention our problems to a
person, hoping to garner sympathy, but instead receive harsh criticism and a
stern rebuke.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; outline: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: firebrick; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; outline: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: firebrick; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">There is
only One whom we can continue to ask, and the more we ask Him, the happier He
becomes. He rewards us for asking Him, and also fulfils our requests. He can be
‘contacted’ 24/7, from any portion of the earth, sky or even from space.</span></span><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> Even a
person who is totally helpless can reach out to Him for assistance. His
treasures are never depleted and He is always prepared to shower His blessings
on us. Never does He give grudgingly and never does He become irritated by us
begging Him for help. When we ‘offload’ our problems and burdens by speaking to
Him, He fills our hearts with solace and peace that cannot be described. </span><span style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: firebrick; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">That Most-Generous and Most-Kind Being is Allah Ta‘ala, and it is
through du‘aa that we turn to Him and beg Him for help.</span></span><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; outline: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p style="line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; outline: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Du‘aa has been described in the hadeeth as being
the weapon of a believer, as through turning to Allah Ta‘ala in du‘aa and
securing His divine assistance, one is able to overcome any obstacle, hurdle or
difficulty. Rasulullah (sallallahu ‘alaihi wasallam) once said to the Sahaabah
(radhiyallahu ‘anhum), </span><span style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: firebrick; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">“Shall I
not show you something that will save you from your enemies and increase your
sustenance? Make du‘aa to Allah Ta‘ala day and night, for indeed du‘aa is the
weapon of a believer.”</span></span><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> <em style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0cm;">(Majma‘uz Zawaaid #17153)</span></em><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 12.0pt; outline: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">As an Ummah,
many of us have lost the habit of engaging in du‘aa. If we understood the
powerful effect of du‘aa, the dynamic results it produces and the immense
rewards we receive for it, we would strive to engage in du‘aa at every
available opportunity.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; outline: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: firebrick; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Such is
the blessing of du‘aa that it costs us nothing and our ‘connection’ to Allah
Ta‘ala is instant. Furthermore, the results of the du‘aa are GUARANTEED to
never disappoint.</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; outline: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">In one hadeeth, Rasulullah (sallallahu ‘alaihi
wasallam) explained that when a person makes du‘aa to Allah Ta‘ala, then it is
not necessary that Allah Ta‘ala will grant him exactly what he asked for.
However, this does not mean that his du‘aa went unanswered. Rasulullah
(sallallahu ‘alaihi wasallam) mentioned that on making du‘aa, Allah Ta‘ala will
grant a person one of three things. The first is that Allah Ta‘ala will grant
him what he had asked for quickly. The second is that Allah Ta‘ala will (not
grant him what he requested, but will) instead keep the reward of the du‘aa for
him in the Aakhirah. The third is that Allah Ta‘ala (will not grant him what he
wished for, but) will avert from him a calamity (that was otherwise meant to
afflict him) equal to what he had asked for. <em style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0cm;">(Musnad Ahmad #11133)</span></em><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 12.0pt; outline: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Hence,
though it may outwardly appear that the du‘aa has not been answered, the
reality is that Allah Ta‘ala knows what is best for us and thus deals with us
with more love and compassion than even parents shows their beloved child.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; outline: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: firebrick; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">The month
of Ramadaan is the ideal time for us to reconnect with Allah Ta‘ala through the
blessing of du‘aa.</span></span><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> The du‘aa of a fasting person is accepted, the du‘aa at
the time of sehri is accepted and the du‘aa at the time of iftaar is accepted.
Likewise, the du‘aa made after the fardh salaah is accepted. </span><span style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: firebrick; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">We should thus avail of these golden moments and stretch our hands
forth, begging Allah Ta‘ala and placing all our needs before Him – needs of
this world and the next.</span></span><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> We should call our young children, make
them sit beside us and teach them to make du‘aa as well. In this way, the habit
of turning to Allah Ta‘ala in du‘aa will insha-Allah become firmly entrenched
in their hearts.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 12.0pt; outline: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Insha-Allah,
in the weeks to come, we will discuss various aspects relating to du‘aa, so
that we can inculcate within ourselves the noble habit of constantly turning to
Allah Ta‘ala in the correct manner.<o:p></o:p></span></p>Princesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02008181033202521006noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7822459990247959403.post-20817343869551679842021-04-06T08:51:00.004+02:002021-04-14T14:33:15.256+02:00A Recent-Day Role Model (Pious Women) ~ Part One<p> </p><p style="line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shapetype id="_x0000_t75"
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Saani 1441, 29<span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;"><span style="outline: 0px;">th</span></span> December 2019,
during the early hours of the morning, the respected mother of Mufti Ebrahim
Salejee (daamat barakaatuhum) (principal of Madrasah Ta’leemuddeen, Isipingo
Beach) passed away in her sleep at the age of 86.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; outline: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: firebrick; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; outline: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: firebrick; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">She was
born in Makkah Mukarramah while her parents were on the journey of hajj. Due to
being born in the holy city of Makkah Mukarramah, her parents gave her the name
Makkiyyah (which means ‘woman of Makkah’).</span></span><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> As an infant, when her
parents wished to perform tawaaf of the Ka‘bah, they would take her and place
her in the Hateem. In this manner, Allah Ta‘ala blessed her, in her infancy, to
acquire the blessings of the Haramain and the Ka’bah Shareef.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; outline: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: firebrick; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; outline: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: firebrick; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">Makkiyyah
Aapa (rahimahallah) (as she was commonly known) was indeed a woman of taqwa and
piety and was an inspiration to one and all. She left many children and
grandchildren who are Huffaaz and ‘Ulama.</span></span><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> Two of her sons, Mufti
Ebrahim and Moulana Husain (daamat barakaatuhuma), are senior ustaazs in
Madrasah Ta’leemuddeen. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 12.0pt; outline: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">May Allah
Ta‘ala fill her grave with noor and grant her the highest stages in Jannatul
Firdaus, aameen.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 12.0pt; outline: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Insha-Allah,
in the parts to come, we will discuss various aspects from the life of this
saintly personality so that we may all benefit from the example she set, Aameen<o:p></o:p></span></p>Princesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02008181033202521006noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7822459990247959403.post-34017059584755035762020-06-29T16:11:00.000+02:002020-06-29T16:11:38.173+02:00Sayyidah ‘Aaishah [radhiyallahu ‘anha] – Part Seven<h2 style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #94c05a; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: 15.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #94c05a; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">Humble to the Last</span><o:p></o:p></span></h2><div><span style="color: #94c05a; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: 15.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #94c05a; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;"><br /></span></span></div><div><p style="line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shapetype id="_x0000_t75"
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Sayyidah ‘Aaishah (radhiyallahu ‘anha) was lying on her deathbed, Sayyiduna
‘Abdullah bin ‘Abbaas (radhiyallahu ‘anhuma) requested permission to enter to
which Sayyidah ‘Aaishah (radhiyallahu ‘anha) said, “I fear that he will praise
me.”</span></span><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> Hearing this, her nephew, ‘Abdullah bin ‘Abdir Rahmaan
(rahimahullah) felt that she did not wish to grant Sayyiduna ‘Abdullah bin
‘Abbaas (radhiyallahu ‘anhuma) permission to enter, and thus he interceded
saying, “He is the cousin of Rasulullah (sallallahu ‘alaihi wasallam) and from
the seniors of the Muslims!” Sayyidah ‘Aaishah (radhiyallahu ‘anha) said,
“Allow him to enter.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; outline: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: firebrick; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; outline: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: firebrick; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">On
entering, Sayyiduna ‘Abdullah bin ‘Abbaas (radhiyallahu ‘anhuma) enquired as to
how she was feeling, to which she replied, “I am well, provided I have taqwa.”</span></span><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> To
this, Sayyiduna ‘Abdullah bin ‘Abbaas (radhiyallahu ‘anhuma) responded, “In
that case, you are well Insha Allah. The only thing that remains between you
and meeting Rasulullah (sallallahu ‘alaihi wasallam) and those whom you love
(that have </span></p><p style="line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; outline: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">passed away) is for your soul to leave your body.” <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; outline: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p style="line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; outline: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">He then began to mention some of the virtues of
Sayyidah ‘Aaishah (radhiyallahu ‘anha) saying, “You were the most beloved to
Rasulullah (sallallahu ‘alaihi wasallam) from all his wives, and Rasulullah
(sallallahu ‘alaihi wasallam) only loved that which was pure. He did not marry
any virgin besides you. </span><span style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: firebrick; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">(When you
were falsely accused of fornication,) your exoneration was revealed from the
sky, through the medium of Jibreel (‘alaihis salaam) and will be recited in
every masjid on earth.</span></span><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> When your necklace fell on the night of
Abwaa, (and Rasulullah [sallallahu ‘alaihi wasallam] halted the army to
retrieve your necklace,) then the following morning, when Rasulullah
(sallallahu ‘alaihi wasallam) and the army of the Sahaabah (radhiyallahu
‘anhum) had no water, Allah Ta‘ala revealed the verse of tayammum. </span><span style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: firebrick; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">Thus, the concession of tayammum that Allah Ta‘ala granted to this
Ummah was on account of you. Therefore, by Allah, you are indeed blessed!”</span></span><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; outline: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p style="line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; outline: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">When Sayyidah ‘Aaishah (radhiyallahu ‘anha)
heard Sayyiduna ‘Abdullah bin ‘Abbaas (radhiyallahu ‘anhuma) praising her in
this manner, she said, </span><span style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: firebrick; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">“Please
cease this, O Ibnu ‘Abbaas! By the Being Who controls my life, I wish that I
was something totally forgotten!”</span></span><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; outline: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: firebrick; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; outline: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">(Saheeh Bukhaari #4753, Musnad Ahmad #2496 and Fat-hul Baari)</span></em><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; outline: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;"><br /></span></strong></p><p style="line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; outline: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">Lessons:</span></strong><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; outline: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: firebrick; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; outline: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: firebrick; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">1.
Despite Sayyidah ‘Aaishah (radhiyallahu ‘anha) being blessed with all these
outstanding virtues, she still thought nothing of herself.</span></span><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> Such
was her level of humility that she did not wish to be praised, and even
exclaimed, “I wish that I was something totally forgotten!” </span><span style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: firebrick; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">In total contrast to this, we post every small detail of our lives
on social media, merely to obtain the ‘likes’ and praises of others. </span></span><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-ZA; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br /></span></p><p style="line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-ZA; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">2. Sayyidah ‘Aaishah (radhiyallahu ‘anha) did not feel that she was
deserving of Jannah due to her unique position. On the contrary, when Sayyidah
‘Aaishah (radhiyallahu ‘anha) was asked as to how she was, she replied that she
was well – provided that she possessed taqwa. </span><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: firebrick; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-ZA; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; padding: 0cm;">In other words, more than the family that one
comes from, or who a person marries, it is the quality of taqwa that will pave
the path to success.</span></p><p style="line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: firebrick; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-ZA; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; padding: 0cm;"><br /></span></p><p style="line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: firebrick; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-ZA; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; padding: 0cm;">May Allah (swt) grant us such humbleness and humility, Aameen</span></p></div>
<span style="outline: 0px;"></span>Princesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02008181033202521006noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7822459990247959403.post-5222671565283084482020-06-15T16:12:00.001+02:002020-06-15T16:12:49.413+02:00Sayyidah ‘Aaishah (adhiyallahu ‘anha) – Part Six<h2 style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #94c05a; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: 15.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #94c05a; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">Passion for Spending on the Poor</span><o:p></o:p></span></h2>
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<p style="line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; outline: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">As previously discussed, Sayyidah ‘Aaishah
(radhiyallahu ‘anha) was extremely generous and loved spending on the poor. </span><span style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: firebrick; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">Hence, whenever she received any wealth, she would begin to spend
it on the poor.</span></span><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; outline: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">On one occasion, the dear and beloved nephew of
Sayyidah ‘Aaishah (radhiyallahu ‘anha), Sayyiduna ‘Abdullah bin Zubair
(radhiyallahu ‘anhuma), </span><span style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: firebrick; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">became
concerned over the large amounts of wealth that she was spending in charity,
and thus mentioned, “Her spending must be curtailed.”</span></span><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; outline: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p style="line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; outline: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">When Sayyidah ‘Aaishah (radhiyallahu ‘anha)
heard about this, she was greatly disappointed that her nephew wished to
restrict her in spending on the poor. </span><span style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: firebrick; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">In fact,
her disappointment was so much that she took a vow to cease speaking to
Sayyiduna ‘Abdullah bin Zubair (radhiyallahu ‘anhuma).</span></span><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; outline: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: firebrick; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;"><br /></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; outline: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">When Sayyiduna ‘Abdullah bin Zubair
(radhiyallahu ‘anhuma) could not bear being separated and cut off from his
beloved aunt for such a long time, he requested many people to intercede on his
behalf. </span><span style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: firebrick; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">However, Sayyidah ‘Aaishah
(radhiyallahu ‘anha) was not prepared to break her vow.</span></span><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; outline: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p style="line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; outline: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Eventually, when the separation became too much
to bear, Sayyiduna ‘Abdullah bin Zubair (radhiyallahu ‘anhuma) approached
Sayyiduna Miswar bin Makhramah (radhiyallahu ‘anhu) and Sayyiduna ‘Abdur
Rahmaan bin Aswad (radhiyallahu ‘anhu) and </span><span style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: firebrick; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">asked
them to intercede on his behalf and assist him to gain an audience with
Sayyidah ‘Aaishah (radhiyallahu ‘anha).</span></span><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> Sayyidah ‘Aaishah
(radhiyallahu ‘anha) would show a lot of consideration to these Sahaabah
(radhiyallahu ‘anhum) on account of them being relatives of Rasulullah
(sallallahu ‘alaihi wasallam).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 12.0pt; outline: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Accordingly,
they went to the home of Sayyidah ‘Aaishah (radhiyallahu ‘anha) where Sayyiduna
Miswar bin Makhramah (radhiyallahu ‘anhu) and Sayyiduna ‘Abdur Rahmaan bin
Aswad (radhiyallahu ‘anhu) asked permission to enter. Not knowing that
Sayyiduna ‘Abdullah bin Zubair (radhiyallahu ‘anhuma) was with them, Sayyidah
‘Aaishah (radhiyallahu ‘anha) gave them all permission to enter.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; outline: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: firebrick; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">They
entered the home and remained behind the screen which separated them from her,
while Sayyiduna ‘Abdullah bin Zubair (radhiyallahu ‘anhuma) seized the
opportunity and went to the other side of the screen, hugging his aunt, weeping
and begging her to forgive him.</span></span><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> At the same time, Sayyiduna
Miswar bin Makhramah (radhiyallahu ‘anhu) and Sayyiduna ‘Abdur Rahmaan bin
Aswad (radhiyallahu ‘anhu) interceded for Sayyiduna ‘Abdullah (radhiyallahu
‘anhu), urging Sayyidah ‘Aaishah (radhiyallahu ‘anha) to speak to him once
again. Finally, Sayyidah ‘Aaishah (radhiyallah ‘anha) agreed and recommenced
speaking to her nephew.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; outline: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: firebrick; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; outline: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: firebrick; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">However,
as compensation for breaking her vow, she thereafter freed forty slaves.
Furthermore, whenever she would think of the vow that she broke, she would weep
profusely, to the extent that her clothing would become wet with her tears, as
she had taken a vow in the name of Allah Ta‘ala and thereafter broke the vow.</span></span><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; outline: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">(Saheeh Bukhaari #3503, #3505 & #6073 and Fat-hul Baari vol.
10, pg. 605)</span></em><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; outline: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;"><br /></span></strong></p><p style="line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; outline: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">Lessons:</span></strong><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; outline: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">1. Generally, when one person becomes upset with
another person and ceases speaking to him, it is because he was insulted,
offended, hurt or his ego was dented. In other words, it is generally due to a
personal grievance and a trivial matter. </span><span style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: firebrick; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">However,
in the case of Sayyidah ‘Aaishah (radhiyallahu ‘anha), her displeasure was for
the sake of Deen,</span></span><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> as she could not tolerate that her nephew wished to
restrict the amount that she spent in charity.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; outline: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p style="line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; outline: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">2. Whereas it would have sufficed Sayyidah
‘Aaishah (radhiyallahu ‘anha) to free one slave as compensation, she freed
forty slaves. </span><span style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: firebrick; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">The reason is that the vow was
made in the name of Allah Ta‘ala, and she thus viewed breaking the vow as an
extremely serious offence.</span></span><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> Hence, instead of freeing one
slave, which was the requirement, she ‘went the extra mile’ and freed forty
slaves. </span><span style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: firebrick; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">Furthermore, due to her fear of
accountability in the court of Allah Ta‘ala, she continued expressing her
regret and remorse by weeping profusely when recalling the incident. </span></span><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; outline: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p style="line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; outline: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">3. When Sayyiduna ‘Abdullah bin Zubair
(radhiyallahu ‘anhuma) realised that he had made a mistake, </span><span style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: firebrick; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">he immediately tried his best to rectify it and repair the
relationship with his aunt,</span></span><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> even going to the extent of
asking others to intercede for him and gain him an audience with her. </span><span style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: firebrick; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">In the same way, if we make a mistake or damage our relationship
with some person, then we should try our best to make amends and repair the
damage.</span></span><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; outline: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p style="line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; outline: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">4. Sayyidah ‘Aaishah (radhiyallahu ‘anha) was
blessed by Allah Ta‘ala to be one of the blessed wives of Rasulullah
(sallallahu 'alaihi wasallam). Hence, she was privileged to witness, first
hand, the manner in which Rasulullah (sallallahu ‘alaihi wasallam) conducted
himself in the home, as well as other dimensions of the life of Rasulullah
(sallallahu ‘alaihi wasallam) which were not before the public. </span><span style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: firebrick; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">She thus possessed important knowledge of Deen which others
required, due to which many people would come and learn Deen from her. However,
when imparting this knowledge of Deen, she ensured that she remained behind a
curtain where non-mahrams could not see her.</span></span><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> Accordingly,
in the incident above, it was only her nephew who went behind the curtain.<o:p></o:p></span></p>Princesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02008181033202521006noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7822459990247959403.post-62935310962576509912020-06-11T17:22:00.001+02:002020-06-11T17:22:41.847+02:00The Power of Repetition<h2 style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></h2>
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</v:shape><![endif]--><!--[if !vml]--><img align="right" height="158" hspace="10" src="http://uswatulmuslimah.co.za/images/stories/the-power-of-repitition.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; float: right; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 0px; outline: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" v:shapes="_x0000_s1026" width="200" /><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">There was once a class of students who were
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scheming and plotting, and eventually came up with a plan.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; outline: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: firebrick; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">When the
teacher entered the class and called the first student to read his lesson, the
student remarked, “Sir! You look quite sick!”</span></span><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> The
teacher brushed him aside and replied that he felt perfectly healthy. Then,
when the second student was called to the desk, he also made a similar remark,
even going as far as to suggest that Sir looked flushed and may even have a
fever.</span><span style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: firebrick; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;"> Thereafter, every student
who came to the desk ‘sincerely’ sympathized with the teacher, insisting that
he looked dreadfully unwell,</span></span><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> until the teacher was finally
convinced that he really was sick, thus sending the students home so that he
could rest.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; outline: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">In the story above, the teacher was perfectly
healthy and fine. </span><span style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: firebrick; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">However,
when the same information was repeatedly drummed into his head, it completely
changed his perception and reshaped his reality, until he actually began to
feel sick and miserable.</span></span><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; outline: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">In the same way, through the different forms of
media, be it the news or even WhatsApp messages, the same message is currently
repeated, day and night – the message of death and disaster unleashed by the
coronavirus. </span><span style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: firebrick; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">The result of the corona
“overload” is that many people now suffer from stress and anxiety and live with
the perpetual fear that corona could strike them at any moment.</span></span><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; outline: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">While the coronavirus is certainly a serious
disease, and contracting the illness is not a trivial matter, it is vital for
us to view the issue in the correct perspective and not lose sight of the
broader picture. </span><span style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: firebrick; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">If we fail to do so, the
overwhelming fear and anxiety may have such an impact on us that that we may
perhaps suffer even more health complications than those caused by the virus.</span></span><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 12.0pt; outline: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">In order to
gain some perspective, consider the following 2017-2018 statistics for SA:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 12.0pt; outline: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">1. There are
approximately 56 murders a day.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 12.0pt; outline: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">2. Over 40
people are fatally injured in car accidents daily.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 12.0pt; outline: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">3. There are
110 cases of rape reported daily (and only 1 in 13 rapes are reported).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 12.0pt; outline: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">4. 45 cars
are hijacked daily.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 12.0pt; outline: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">5. 380
people are mugged daily.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; outline: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Despite the disturbing statistics above, and the
fact that almost every person personally knows multiple people who have
suffered hijackings, robberies, murders and car accidents, </span><span style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: firebrick; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">life goes on and the majority of people continue in their
day-to-day lives without succumbing to anxiety, stress and worry.</span></span><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; outline: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">The reason is simple – these topics seldom make
it onto the front page of the news anymore, and there is seldom a hype created
around these topics (unless a prominent personality is affected). Hence, people
had the correct perspective, </span><span style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: firebrick; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">due to
which they sufficed on adopting the permissible means and taking reasonable
precautions, while relying on Allah Ta‘ala and entrusting their wellbeing and
safety to Him.</span></span><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 12.0pt; outline: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Conversely,
the hype that has been created around corona is perhaps unprecedented in recent
history, and it is this unrelenting repetition of CORONA-CORONA that is now
changing people’s perception and reshaping their reality.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; outline: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">In essence, people are so steeped in the ‘zikr’
of corona, </span><span style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: firebrick; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">that this ‘zikr’ (continuously
speaking or hearing about something) has created a lasting impression on their
hearts and minds.</span></span><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> The power of this impression and mindset can be easily
understood by considering the billions of people who have voluntarily made such
sacrifices and lifestyle changes (remaining in the home, covering the face,
etc.) which they were previously unprepared to make for any reason.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; outline: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">By contemplating over this total transformation,
which resulted from the ‘zikr’ of corona,</span><span style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: firebrick; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;"> imagine
what would happen if instead of speaking about corona all the time, we began to
make the zikr of Allah Ta‘ala!</span></span><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> Imagine how our lives would be
transformed if we decreased the media, and instead spoke of Allah’s greatness,
His love for us, His mercy and His compassion! Naturally, if we revived the
zikr of Allah Ta‘ala in our lives, through recitation of the Quraan Majeed,
speaking of Allah Ta‘ala, conducting home ta’leem, engaging in du‘aa, etc., our
imaan and Deen would be revived, together with us feeling a deep sense of
comfort and peace of mind.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; outline: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; outline: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">May Allah Ta‘ala protect us from all diseases and bless us to
remain engaged in His zikr, Aameen.</span></em><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; outline: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;"></span></em></p><div class="separator" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><em style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; clear: left; color: #6f3145; float: left; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10.5pt; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; padding: 0cm;"></span></em></div><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman"; letter-spacing: normal; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; orphans: 2; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" id="_x0000_i1025" src="http://uswatulmuslimah.co.za/posters/ladies/other/articles/72_zikr-of-corona.jpg" style="border-width: 0px; height: 400px; margin: 0px auto; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 400px;" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><p style="line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; outline: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;"><br /></span></em></p>
<i></i>Princesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02008181033202521006noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7822459990247959403.post-11161865255790767232020-06-02T08:49:00.000+02:002020-06-02T08:49:19.100+02:00Sayyidah ‘Aaishah (radhiyallahu ‘anha) – Part Five<h2 style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #94c05a; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: 15.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #94c05a; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">Firm Faith in Allah</span><o:p></o:p></span></h2>
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<p style="line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; outline: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">On one occasion, a beggar came to the home of
Sayyidah ‘Aaishah (radhiyallahu ‘anha) and asked for some food. </span><span style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: firebrick; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">At that time, Sayyidah ‘Aaishah (radhiyallahu ‘anha) was fasting,
and besides a loaf of bread, she had no other food in her home.</span></span><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; outline: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p style="line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; outline: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Nevertheless, on seeing the beggar, she
instructed her freed slave, “Give the bread to him.” The freed slave responded,
“There is nothing else for you to eat as iftaar (to break your fast).” </span><span style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: firebrick; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">However, Sayyidah ‘Aaishah (radhiyallahu ‘anha) insisted, “Give
the bread to him.”</span></span><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> The freed slave thus obliged and gave the bread to the
beggar.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; outline: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p style="line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; outline: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">That evening, a person who would not generally
send food for Sayyidah ‘Aaishah (radhiyallahu ‘anha) </span><span style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: firebrick; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">unexpectedly sent her some goat meat covered in bread.</span></span><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> On
receiving the meat and bread, Sayyidah ‘Aaishah (radhiyallahu ‘anha) called her
freed slave and said to her, </span><span style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: firebrick; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">“Eat
this, for it is better than the bread that you wanted.”</span></span><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; outline: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;"><br /></span></em></p><p style="line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; outline: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">(Muwatta Imaam Maalik #3655)</span></em><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; outline: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;"><br /></span></strong></p><p style="line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; outline: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">Lessons:</span></strong><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; outline: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p style="line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; outline: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">1. From the fact that the food came from a
person who was not in the habit of sending food for Sayyidah ‘Aaishah
(radhiyallahu ‘anha), we realize that she was not expecting this food to
arrive. </span><span style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: firebrick; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">Hence, when she gave her bread
to the beggar, she did so with complete reliance and trust in Allah Ta‘ala to
provide for her.</span></span><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; outline: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p style="line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; outline: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">2. When Allah Ta‘ala sent food for her, He sent
her food that was far better than that which she had given the beggar. Hence,
Sayyidah ‘Aaishah (radhiyallahu ‘anha) addressed her freed slave and taught her
that </span><span style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: firebrick; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">when a person sacrifices
something for the sake of Allah Ta‘ala, then Allah Ta‘ala will always give him
something far better in return.</span></span><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-ZA; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><div><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-ZA; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br /></span></div>3. In our current situation, where many of us are undergoing financial
constraints, </span><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: firebrick; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-ZA; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; padding: 0cm;"><span style="outline: 0px;">we need to constantly remind ourselves that
it is Allah Ta‘ala who provided for us till this point, and it is He alone that
will provide for us in the future as well.</span></span><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-ZA; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"> The more we entrench
this belief in our hearts and minds, the greater the peace of mind and calmness
we will experience. </span><div><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-ZA; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br /></span></div>Princesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02008181033202521006noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7822459990247959403.post-67875379249986178722020-05-19T14:18:00.000+02:002020-05-19T14:18:43.561+02:00Sayyidah ‘Aa'ishah (radhiyallahu ‘anha) – Part Four<h2 style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: 15.5pt;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0cm;">Forgiven and Forgotten</span><o:p></o:p></span></h2><h2 style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #94c05a; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: 15.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></h2>
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previously, Sayyidah ‘Aaishah (radhiyallahu ‘anha) was mistakenly left behind
when the army suddenly departed while returning from the expedition of Banul
Mustaliq. Later Sayyiduna Safwaan bin Mu‘attal (radhiyallahu ‘anhu) discovered
her waiting in the place where the Sahaabah (radhiyallahu ‘anhum) had camped
and escorted her safely back to the army.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; outline: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">When they arrived at the army, the tongues of
the hypocrites began to wag, </span><span style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: firebrick; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">and they
spread the rumour that – Allah Ta‘ala forbid! – Sayyidah ‘Aaishah (radhiyallahu
‘anha) had indulged in sin with Sayyiduna Safwaan (radhiyallahu ‘anhu).</span></span><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> In
this manner, they falsely accused our beloved mother, Sayyidah ‘Aaishah
(radhiyallahu ‘anha), of indecency (<em style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0cm;">na‘oozubillah</span></em>).
This incident is known as the incident of ifk (slander).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; outline: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; outline: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Unfortunately, although the hypocrites were
responsible for starting the rumours,</span><span style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: firebrick; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;"> there
were a few sincere Sahaabah (radhiyallahu ‘anhum) who erred and also became
unwittingly involved in speaking of these rumours.</span></span><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> Among
these Sahaabah was Sayyiduna Hassaan bin Thaabit (radhiyallahu ‘anhu), the poet
who would use his poetry to speak in defence of Rasulullah (sallallahu ‘alaihi
wasallam) when the disbelievers would mock at him.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; outline: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p style="line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; outline: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">After a period of time, during which Sayyidah
‘Aaishah (radhiyallahu ‘anha) suffered extreme anguish, as the stigma of the
false rumour persisted, </span><span style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: firebrick; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">Allah
Ta‘ala Himself exonerated her and declared her innocence by revealing verses of
the Quraan Majeed in her defence.</span></span><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; outline: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p style="line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; outline: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">On one occasion, many years later, a nephew of
Sayyidah ‘Aaishah (radhiyallahu ‘anha) began to speak ill of Sayyiduna Hassaan
(radhiyallahu ‘anhu) in her presence. </span><span style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: firebrick; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">When she
heard the words of her nephew, she stopped him saying, “Do not speak ill of
him, for he would defend Rasulullah (sallallahu ‘alaihi wasallam) (by means of
his poetry).”</span></span><em style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;"> (Saheeh
Bukhaari #3531)</span></em><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; outline: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;"><br /></span></strong></p><p style="line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; outline: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">Lessons:</span></strong><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; outline: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: firebrick; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">1. This
incident is clear testament to how clean the heart of Sayyidah ‘Aaishah
(radhiyallahu ‘anha) was.</span></span><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> Despite Sayyiduna Hassaan
(radhiyallahu ‘anhu) being among those who had erred and unwittingly assisted
in spreading the rumour, she pardoned and forgave him. </span><span style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: firebrick; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">Furthermore, she did not only forgive, but even ‘forgot’, by
thereafter defending him when her own nephew wished to speak ill of him.</span></span><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> This
forgiving nature and keeping a clean heart, free of malice and grudges, is the
sunnah of Rasulullah (sallallahu ‘alaihi wasallam), and hence who could have
learnt it better than Sayyidah ‘Aaishah (radhiyallahu ‘anha)?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; outline: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: firebrick; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; outline: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: firebrick; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">2. We
should be extremely wary and cautious of all gossip and rumours – especially in
the age of social media, when unfounded and unverified information abounds and
rapidly circulates.</span></span><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> If we become party to propagating a false
rumour, we will be answerable by Allah Ta‘ala. Hence, if the rumour is none of
our business – let it stay that way. If it does pertain to us, we must verify
it before accepting and acting on it.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; outline: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p style="line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; outline: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">May Allah grant us a clean heart and mind where we seek to see the best in each other Aameen!</span></p>Princesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02008181033202521006noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7822459990247959403.post-14828540917713414832020-05-05T14:20:00.002+02:002020-05-05T14:20:34.341+02:00Sayyidah ‘Aa'ishah (radhiyallahu ‘anha) – Part Three
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<span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">In various
ahaadeeth, Sayyidah ‘Aaishah (radhiyallahu ‘anha) explains the food of the
household of Rasulullah (sallallahu ‘alaihi wasallam).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">In one narration, she mentions, “From the time
Rasulullah (sallallahu ‘alaihi wasallam) came to Madeenah Munawwarah, until the
time he departed from this world, </span><span style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: firebrick; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">his
household were never satiated with food prepared from wheat for three
consecutive nights.”</span></span><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> <em style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">(Saheeh Bukhaari #5416)</span></em><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Likewise, in another narration, she mentions,
“At the time when Rasulullah (sallallahu ‘alaihi wasallam) departed from this
world, </span><span style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: firebrick; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">we would satiate our hunger
with dates and water.”</span></span><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> <em style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">(Saheeh Bukaari #5383)</span></em><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">As far as Sayyidah ‘Aaishah (radhiyallahu ‘anha)
is concerned, </span><span style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: firebrick; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">then even after the demise of
Rasulullah (sallallahu ‘alaihi wasallam), she maintained this level of
simplicity in her own life.</span></span><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> Hence, when wealth began to
pour into Madeenah Munawwarah and large amounts of money would be sent to her, </span><span style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: firebrick; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">she never kept anything for herself. Instead, she hastened to
spend it all in charity,</span></span><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> emulating the blessed example of
Rasulullah (sallallahu ‘alaihi wasallam).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">The nephew of Sayyidah ‘Aaishah (radhiyallahu
‘anha), ‘Urwah bin Zubair (rahimahullah), mentions that on one occasion,
Sayyiduna Mu‘aawiyah (radhiyallahu ‘anhu) sent 100 000 dirhams (silver
coins) to her as a gift. On receiving the gift, </span><span style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: firebrick; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">she began to distribute it among the poor, until none of the money
remained.</span></span><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> At that time, her freed slave, Sayyidah Bareerah
(radhiyallahu ‘anha), remarked, </span><span style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: firebrick; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">“You are
fasting. Why did you not purchase some meat for us with (at least) one dirham?”</span></span><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> Sayyidah
‘Aaishah (radhiyallahu ‘anha) replied, “Had I thought of it, I would have done
so.” <em style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">(Mustadrak Haakim #6745)</span></em><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Similarly, on another occasion, her nephew,
Sayyiduna ‘Abdullah bin Zubair (radhiyallahu ‘anhuma), sent her two sacks,
filled with money, as a gift. </span><span style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: firebrick; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">Contained
in these sacks was wealth equal to approximately 180 000 dirhams.</span></span><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> On
receiving the gift, Sayyidah ‘Aaishah (radhiyallahu ‘anha) asked for a tray to
be brought. She then (placed the money in the tray and) sat, distributing the
money among the people. </span><span style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: firebrick; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">By that
evening, none of the money remained.</span></span><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> Since Sayyidah ‘Aaishah
(radhiyallahu ‘anha) was fasting, she called to her servant, “Please bring my
iftaar (the food with which I will break my fast).” The servant obliged and
presented her with some bread and olive oil. Observing this, her freed slave,
Sayyidah Ummu Zarrah (radhiyallahu ‘anha) remarked, </span><span style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: firebrick; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">“From the money you distributed today, could you not have used one
dirham to purchase meat for us to eat when breaking our fast?” </span></span><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Sayyidah
‘Aaishah (radhiyallahu ‘anha) replied, </span><span style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: firebrick; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">“Do not
reprimand me! If you had reminded me, I would have done so!”</span></span><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> <em style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">(Sifatus Safwah vol. 1, pg. 318)</span></em><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><em style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;"><br /></span></em></span></div>
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<strong style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">Lessons:</span></strong><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">1. Food prepared from wheat (e.g. bread) is not
an exclusive or exotic type of food. Rather, it is among the basic, staple
foods. </span><span style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: firebrick; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">However, the simplicity and
generosity of Rasulullah (sallallahu ‘alaihi wasallam) and his blessed
household was such that they voluntarily chose to spend all their wealth in the
path of Allah Ta‘ala, assisting others and securing the rewards of the
Hereafter.</span></span><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> Hence, they did not even have wheat bread to eat for three
nights in a row. Rather, they would eat barley bread (which was cheaper) or
satiate their hunger by eating dates (which were abundantly available) and
drinking water.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: firebrick; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: firebrick; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">2. The
effect of remaining in the blessed company of Rasulullah (sallallahu ‘alaihi
wasallam) was that even after his demise, his household emulated his blessed
example.</span></span><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> They had imbibed the values of generosity and simplicity
to such an extent that they too voluntarily sacrificed the material
possessions, for the sake of others, and sufficed on the simplest of foods.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">3. When Sayyidah ‘Aaishah (radhiyallahu ‘anha)
was asked as to why she had not purchased meat for her iftaar, she remarked
that if it had occurred to her, or she had been reminded, she would have done
so, not for herself – but to accommodate her servant and make her comfortable. </span><span style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: firebrick; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">In other words, although she was fasting, and had probably not
eaten meat for many days, food was the furthest thing from her mind and she was
not pining for meat.</span></span><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> On the other hand, we constantly obsess
over our food and our menu – even more so when we are fasting. </span><span style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: firebrick; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">In many ways, our lives actually revolve around our stomachs.</span></span><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> However,
as we can see from the above incidents, this was not the way of Rasulullah
(sallallahu ‘alaihi wasallam) and the Sahaabah (radhiyallahu ‘anhum). </span><span style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: firebrick; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">They ate to live, not lived to eat.</span></span><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: firebrick; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">It is the
belief of every single Muslim that the entire universe, and every creation in
existence, is completely dependent upon Allah Ta‘ala, at every moment, for its
continuity,</span></span><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> while Allah Ta‘ala is absolutely independent of the
creation. Everything that happens in the world only occurs with the permission
of Allah Ta‘ala and through His power. Hence, not even a leaf can fall from a
tree without the power and permission of Allah Ta‘ala.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Having understood that everything in existence
relies upon Allah Ta‘ala, we must realize that we too are completely dependent
upon Him at every moment. </span><span style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: firebrick; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">It is
only through Allah Ta‘ala’s mercy that we breathe, that our hearts beat, that
our brains function, and that our bodies and organs continue to operate
correctly, ensuring our survival and comfort. </span></span><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">If Allah
Ta‘ala had to deprive us of His mercy for even a moment, we would be absolutely
finished and destroyed, as we would simply cease to function.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Just as our physical continuity and progress is
dependent on Allah Ta‘ala’s mercy, our Deeni and spiritual progress is likewise
dependent on Him. It is only through His mercy that we feel inspired to perform
salaah, feel motivated towards righteousness, feel encouraged to repent, feel
inclined to obeying Him, etc. </span><span style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: firebrick; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">In
essence, we are completely dependent on the mercy of Allah Ta‘ala, at every
moment, for both our physical and spiritual continuity and progress.</span></span><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> However,
we must realize that the more we obey Allah Ta‘ala, the more He will bless us
with His mercy and the more we will progress, and the more we disobey Him, the
more we will be deprived of His mercy.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Nevertheless,
there are certain actions which are ‘keys’ to the special mercy of Allah
Ta‘ala, as Rasulullah (sallallahu ‘alaihi wasallam) had himself made du‘aa for
the people carrying out these actions to be blessed with Allah Ta‘ala’s special
mercy.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: firebrick; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">With the
first ten days of Ramadhaan being the ten days of Allah Ta‘ala’s special mercy,
we should try to commence practising on these actions during these ten days,
thus making them a part of our lives thereafter as well. In this way, we will
hopefully attract the special mercy of Allah Ta‘ala.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Some
of these actions are:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">1. To awake for Tahajjud Salaah, and thereafter </span><span style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: firebrick; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">wake one’s spouse to perform Tahajjud Salaah as well,</span></span><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> even
if one has to assist them to awaken by sprinkling a few drops of water on their
face. <em style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0cm;">(Sunan Abi Dawood #1450)</span></em><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Performing the four sunnats before the ‘Asr Salaah.</span></span><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> <em style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0cm;">(Sunan Tirmizi #430)</span></em><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">3. Speaking words which are rewarding (i.e.
speaking any words through which one will be rewarded e.g. encouraging people
towards righteousness, or speaking permissible words that bring cheer to
people’s hearts, etc.). <em style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0cm;">(Shu‘abul Imaan #4589)</span></em><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: firebrick; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">4.
Remaining silent in the case where one’s words will cause one to become sinful</span></span><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> (e.g.
not engaging in backbiting, slander, gossip, carrying tales, etc.). <em style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0cm;">(Shu‘abul Imaan #4589)</span></em><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: firebrick; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; outline: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: firebrick; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">5. For a
woman to dress in a manner that appropriately conceals her body.</span></span><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> <em style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0cm;">(Shu‘abul Imaan #7422)</span></em><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: firebrick; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; outline: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: firebrick; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">6. Bing
lenient and soft when purchasing, selling and claiming payment.</span></span><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> <em style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0cm;">(Saheeh Bukhaari #2076)</span></em><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<em style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;"><br /></span></em></div>
<div style="line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; outline: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">
<em style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">May Allah Ta‘ala shower His mercy upon us all, throughout our
lives, and may He assist us all to adhere to these actions, Aameen.</span></em><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
Princesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02008181033202521006noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7822459990247959403.post-55021545717533295552020-04-21T14:19:00.000+02:002020-04-21T14:19:10.165+02:00The Window of Opportunity<h2 style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;">
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Days of Ramadhaan – Part One</span></span></em><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Time, comprising of miniscule moments, has
always been regarded with great importance by man. </span><span style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: firebrick; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">Hence, man has always sought methods and means to measure and keep
track of time.</span></span><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> From ancient sundials and historical water clocks to the
modern, digital timepieces and Swiss-precision clocks that we have today – man
has come a long way in perfecting instruments of time.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: firebrick; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">More
important than measuring time, however, is using it productively and
efficiently.</span></span><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> In this regard, it is an accepted reality that there are certain
times that are more conducive to certain activities. </span><span style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: firebrick; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">In other words, an effort made for a certain goal in these times
will yield more results than the same effort made at other times.</span></span><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">A simple
example of this is business during the month of December. Every shopkeeper
understands that while his business may do well in other periods of the year,
it is in the month of December that his business will generate the highest
turnover and profits. Hence, he makes the most of this month, opening early,
closing late, employing extra staff, increasing his advertising and holding
massive sales.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: firebrick; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">In a
similar manner, the month of Ramadhaan is the believer’s equivalent of the
businessman’s December in regard to generating massive ‘profits’ in reward.</span></span><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> In the
month of Ramadhaan, a believer exerts himself more than he does at any other
time, trying his best to earn forgiveness and rewards. Nevertheless, the month
of Ramadhaan itself has been divided into three portions, each portion offering
a window of opportunity for the believers to acquire some special benefit.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">On the final day of Sha’baan, Rasulullah
(sallallahu ‘alaihi wasallam) delivered a sermon to the Sahaabah (radhiyallahu
‘anhum) regarding the immense virtues and importance of the month of Ramadhaan,
together with advices to be followed during this blessed month. In the course
of this sermon, Rasulullah (sallallahu ‘alaihi wasallam) mentioned the
following regarding Ramadhaan, </span><span style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: firebrick; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">“This is
a month, the first of which brings Allah Ta‘ala’s mercy, the middle of which brings
His forgiveness, and the last of which brings emancipation from the fire of
Jahannum.”</span></span><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> <em style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0cm;">(Saheeh Ibni Khuzaimah #1887)</span></em><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Accordingly,
during the first ten days of Ramadhaan, Allah Ta‘ala showers His abundant
favours upon the believers. Then, those who express gratitude to Allah Ta‘ala
are blessed even further, with more favours and bounties from Allah Ta‘ala.
During the second ten days, Allah Ta‘ala showers His forgiveness upon His
servants, and this is in reward for their fasting during the first ten days.
Finally, the last ten days bring immunity from entering the fire of Jahannum.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Shaikhul Hadeeth, Moulana Muhammad Zakariyya
(rahimahullah), has explained the abovementioned hadeeth in the following
manner: </span><span style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: firebrick; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">Ramadhaan has been divided into
three portions because the believers are of three types.</span></span><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> The
first type of believer is the one who is not burdened by sins. Since he is free
of the obstacle of sins, </span><span style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: firebrick; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">the very
moment Ramadhaan commences (from the first ten days), he is able to benefit
from the mercy and blessings of Allah Ta‘ala.</span></span><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> The
second type of believer is the one who is burdened by sins, but his burden is
not too heavy. After fasting and exerting himself in ‘ibaadah during the first
ten days, he gains forgiveness from Allah Ta‘ala after the first ten days, </span><span style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: firebrick; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">and thus begins to receive the special mercy and bounties of Allah
Ta‘ala in the second ten days.</span></span><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> The last type of believer is
the one who is heavily burdened by sins. On account of the heaviness of his
burden, he only gains forgiveness after two thirds of Ramadhaan have passed, </span><span style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: firebrick; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">and thus he only begins to receive the special mercies during the
last ten days.</span></span><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">From this explanation, we understand that the
first type of person, who enters the month of Ramadhaan without a burden of sin
to bear, is the most fortunate, as he receives the greatest amount of blessings
and mercies from Allah Ta‘ala in this most sacred month. </span><span style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: firebrick; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">Hence, the effort should be to engage in abundant istighfaar and
repentance, in the few days left until Ramadhaan, so that we can try to acquire
forgiveness before the month commences.</span></span><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> In this way, we too can
commence receiving the special mercies and bounties of Allah Ta‘ala from the
very beginning of Ramadhaan.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Insha-Allah,
in the weeks to come, we will discuss methods through which we can achieve the
aforementioned benefit for each of the ten days. Hopefully, with the help of
Allah Ta‘ala, we will make this Ramadhaan the best Ramadhaan of our lives thus
far, aameen.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">The Expedition of Banul Mustaliq occurred during
the month of Sha’baan 5 A.H. Together with the Sahaabah (radhiyallahu ‘anhum)
who accompanied Rasulullah (sallallahu ‘alaihi wasallam) on this expedition, </span><span style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: firebrick; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">Rasulullah (sallallahu ‘alaihi wasallam) also took his respected
wife, Sayyidah ‘Aaishah (radhiyallahu ‘anha) along with him.</span></span><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">On the return journey, they had halted for the
night at a place close to Madeenah Munawwarah. Prior to the time of departure,
Sayyidah ‘Aaishah (radhiyallahu ‘anha) went some distance away from the camp
site to take care of her physical needs. However, when she returned, she
realised that her necklace had fallen off and therefore went back in search of
it. </span><span style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: firebrick; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">In the process of finding her
necklace, she was delayed, and upon returning to the camp site, she found that
the army had already departed.</span></span><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Since Sayyidah ‘Aaishah (radhiyallahu ‘anha) was
very light in weight at that time, the Sahaabah (radhiyallahu ‘anhum) who had
lifted the <em style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0cm;">hawdaj</span></em> (a curtained carriage) and placed it on
the camel’s back did not even realized that she was not inside.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Sayyidah ‘Aaishah (radhiyallahu ‘anha) relates,
“I proceeded to the place in which I had initially been, realising that they
would soon discover that I was missing and return for me. </span><span style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: firebrick; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">I then covered myself with </span></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; outline: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: firebrick; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">my shawl, and fell asleep.</span></span><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">“Safwaan bin
Mu‘attal (radhiyallahu ‘anhu) was appointed by Rasulullah (sallallahu ‘alaihi
wasallam), as per his own request, to follow behind the army. Hence, when the
army would depart, he would remain in the camp, performing salaah. After some
time, he would follow behind the army, recovering lost items, such as a
waterskin or utensil, that any person in the army had left behind, so that he
could return it to the owner.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; outline: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">“As Safwaan (radhiyallahu ‘anhu) proceeded, he
came to the place where I was, noticed the figure of a person sleeping, and
recognized me (as the shawl had fallen from my face, while I was asleep). </span><span style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: firebrick; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">Safwaan (radhiyallahu ‘anhu) was able to recognize me as he had
seen me in the era before the laws of hijaab (purdah) were revealed.</span></span><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">“As soon as he saw me, he loudly recited, ‘innaa
lillaahi wa innaa ilaihi raaji‘oon’, causing me to awaken. </span><span style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: firebrick; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">On awakening, my spontaneous reaction was to cover my face and
conceal it from him. By Allah! We did not speak anything to one another, nor
did I hear any word from him besides his reciting of ‘innaa lillaah’.</span></span><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">“He then
brought his camel to me, made it kneel, and then turned his face away, allowing
me to climb onto the camel. He then led the camel, until we reached the army.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; outline: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">
<em style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">(Saheeh Bukhaari #4750 and Fat-hul Baari)</span></em><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<strong style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;"><br /></span></strong></div>
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<strong style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">Lessons:</span></strong><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">1. Before she fell asleep, Sayyidah ‘Aaishah
(radhiyallahu ‘anha) covered herself, and as soon as she awoke, her spontaneous
reaction was to cover her face as well. </span><span style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: firebrick; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">Hence, it
is clear that the aspect of purdah was so deeply ingrained in Sayyidah ‘Aaishah
(radhiyallahu ‘anha) that it was her second nature.</span></span><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> It is
thus very clear that the Sahaabah (radhiyallahu ‘anhum), despite the high level
of their piety, purity of their hearts, and deep consciousness of Allah Ta‘ala, </span><span style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: firebrick; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">did not regard purdah and the covering of the face to be a trivial
matter or something insignificant</span></span><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> – rather they showed it utmost
importance, as they knew that hayaa is directly linked to imaan.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">2. When Sayyiduna Safwaan (radhiyallahu ‘anhu)
discovered Sayyidah ‘Aaishah (radhiyallahu ‘anha), </span><span style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: firebrick; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">he woke her by loudly reciting ‘innaa lillaahi wa innaa ilayhi
raaji’oon’, in order to avoid any direct conversation.</span></span><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> When a
Sahaabi exercised this level of caution when interacting with his ‘mother’ in a
situation of dire necessity, due to her being a non-mahram, </span><span style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: firebrick; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">what level of caution should we be exercising, in a time that
abounds with lust and illicit behaviour.</span></span><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> While this applies to
physical meetings and verbal conversations, it equally applies to interacting
via social networks or any other media. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">3. Sayyiduna Safwaan (radhiyallahu ‘anhu) had to
fulfil the necessary duty of transporting Sayyidah ‘Aaishah (radhiyallahu
‘anha) back to the army, as he could not leave her alone in the wilderness. </span><span style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: firebrick; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">However, he did so with utmost hayaa. While she was climbing onto
the camel, he turned away completely,</span></span><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> and after she was mounted on
the camel, he did not walk beside her, but walked in front, where he could not
see her. </span><span style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: firebrick; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">In essence, both these Sahaabah
(radhiyallahu ‘anhum), on this occasion, displayed the highest levels of hayaa
and purdah, despite the difficult situation, thus setting the standard for the
Ummah to follow.</span></span><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</v:shape><![endif]--><!--[if !vml]--><img align="right" height="158" hspace="10" src="http://uswatulmuslimah.co.za/images/stories/letter-to-the-nile.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; float: right; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 0px; outline: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" v:shapes="_x0000_s1026" width="200" /><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">During the khilaafah (rule) of Sayyiduna ‘Umar
(radhiyallahu ‘anhu), the Muslims conquered the land of Egypt. Sayyiduna ‘Umar
(radhiyallahu ‘anhu) had appointed Sayyiduna ‘Amr bin ‘Aas (radhiyallahu ‘anhu)
as the governor over Egypt.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">After the Muslims began to rule, when the month
of Baoonah (the tenth month in the Coptic calendar) commenced, the people of
Egypt approached Sayyiduna ‘Amr bin ‘Aas (radhiyallahu ‘anhu) and said, </span><span style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: firebrick; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">“O leader! The Nile has a special ritual that must be performed.
Without performing this ritual, the river will not rise (and we will not be
able to farm).”</span></span><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> Sayyiduna ‘Amr (radhiyallahu ‘anhu) asked them, “What is
this ritual?” The people answered, “When it is the twelfth night of this month,
we go to a young, virgin girl. We then make her parents happy (by remunerating
them greatly so they may consent us taking her away), after which we adorn her
with the best of jewellery and dress her in the finest of garments. We then
cast her into the Nile (as a human sacrifice).”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">When Sayyiduna ‘Amr (radhiyallahu ‘anhu) heard
this, he said, </span><span style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: firebrick; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">“This ritual cannot be carried
out in Islam, as Islam has abrogated and cancelled all customs and rituals of
jaahiliyyah (the pre-Islamic era).”</span></span><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> The people thus desisted from
performing this ritual. However, the remainder of Baoonah passed, as well as
the next two months, without the water level of the Nile rising. Eventually,
the people resolved to leave the area and move elsewhere.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">When Sayyiduna ‘Amr (radhiyallahu ‘anhu) saw
that the situation had reached this point, he wrote a letter to Sayyiduna ‘Umar
(radhiyallahu ‘anhu), informing him of the predicament in Egypt. On receiving
his letter and reading it, Sayyiduna ‘Umar (radhiyallahu ‘anhu) sent him the
following reply, </span><span style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: firebrick; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">“You have acted correctly (in
refusing to carry out this custom), as Islam has cancelled all rituals and
customs from jaahiliyyah.”</span></span><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> Sayyiduna ‘Umar (radhiyallahu
‘anhu) also wrote a small note, on a separate piece of paper, and included it
within the letter. Regarding this note, he instructed Sayyiduna ‘Amr
(radhiyallahu ‘anhu), “I have sent a note to you, included with your letter.
Cast this note into the Nile.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">When Sayyiduna ‘Amr (radhiyallahu ‘anhu)
received the letter, he took the note and saw that Sayyiduna ‘Umar
(radhiyallahu ‘anhu) had written the following, </span><span style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: firebrick; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">“From the servant of Allah Ta‘ala, ‘Umar, Ameerul Mu-mineen, to
the Nile of Egypt. If your flowing is of your own accord, then you may abstain
from rising. However, if it is that Being, who is One and All-Powerful, that
causes you to flow, then we ask Him Who is Alone and All-Powerful to make you
flow.”</span></span><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: firebrick; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Sayyiduna ‘Amr (radhiyallahu ‘anhu) cast the
letter into the Nile one day before Holy Cross Day (a day celebrated by the
Christians). At that time all the people had prepared to migrate elsewhere, as
they could not live in the region and see to their needs without the water of
the Nile. </span><span style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: firebrick; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">The following morning, when the
people awoke, they found that Allah Ta‘ala had caused the level of the Nile to
rise by almost seven meters in a single night!</span></span><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">In this
manner, Allah Ta‘ala brought an end to that bad custom of human sacrifice for
the Nile, and it has never again been practiced till this day.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<em style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">(Taareekh Ibni ‘Asaakir vol. 44, pg. 337)</span></em><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<strong style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">Lessons:</span></strong><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">1. No matter what difficulty the Sahaabah
(radhiyallahu ‘anhum) faced, even if it was the difficulty of drought due to
the Nile not flooding, </span><span style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: firebrick; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">they were
NEVER prepared to compromise their Deen.</span></span><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> They understood that
Allah Ta‘ala alone is in control of everything, and His assistance can NEVER be
gained through disobeying Him and turning away from Him. </span><span style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: firebrick; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">Hence, in our current situation, while abiding by the lockdown
regulations, we should remain committed to Deen and be loyal to Allah Ta‘ala by
being steadfast on the five daily salaah, abstaining from sins, etc.</span></span><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">2. Islam is
a complete Deen. Hence, a Muslim will never adopt customs from other cultures,
such as birthday parties, nor will he invent his own customs and rituals and
try to make them part of Deen.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />Princesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02008181033202521006noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7822459990247959403.post-23828124448357071422020-04-06T16:41:00.000+02:002020-04-06T16:41:38.221+02:00Sayyidah ‘Aa'ishah (radhiyallahu ‘anha) – Part One<br />
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<span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Allah Ta‘ala
had blessed multiple women with the honour of becoming the Azwaaj Mutahharaat
(pure and chaste wives of Rasulullah [sallallahu ‘alaihi wasallam]). However,
from all the Azwaaj Mutahharaat, perhaps the one who is most well-known is
Sayyidah ‘Aaishah (radhiyallahu ‘anha).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: firebrick; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">Not only
was Sayyidah Aaishah (radhiyallahu ‘anha) the most beloved of the Azwaaj
Mutahharaat to our most beloved Rasul (sallallahu ‘alaihi wasallam), but among
all his wives, she was blessed with many special virtues that were unique to
her alone.</span></span><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Sayyidah
‘Aaishah (radhiyallahu ‘anha) once mentioned the following to the other Azwaaj
Mutahharaat:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: firebrick; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">“I was
favoured over you with ten special blessings – and I do not say this with pride
(but rather to express gratitude to Allah Ta‘ala.</span></span><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> These
ten special blessings are that) I was the most beloved to Rasulullah
(sallallahu ‘alaihi wasallam) from all his wives and my father was the most
beloved to him (from all the Sahaabah [radhiyallahu ‘anhum]).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Rasulullah
(sallallahu ‘alaihi wasallam) married me as a virgin, whereas he did not marry
any other woman who was a virgin besides me. Rasulullah (sallallahu ‘alaihi
wasallam) married me at the age of seven, and I went to live with him when I
was nine.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: firebrick; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">(When I
was falsely accused of zina,) my exoneration and the declaration of my
innocence descended from the sky (as revelation to be recorded in the Qura'an
Majeed).</span></span><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">When
Rasulullah (sallallahu ‘alaihi wasallam) was in his final illness, he asked his
wives permission saying, ‘It is difficult for me to continue moving between
your homes (giving each of you your due turn). Hence, allow me to remain with
one of you.’ When Rasulullah (sallallahu ‘alaihi wasallam) said that, Ummu
Salamah (radhiyallahu ‘anha) said, ‘We understand what it is that you wish –
you wish to stay at the home of ‘Aaishah (radhiyallahu ‘anha). We have given
you permission to do so (as this is what pleases you).’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: firebrick; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">The final
thing to be placed in the blessed mouth of Rasulullah (sallallahu ‘alaihi
wasallam) in the world was my saliva.</span></span><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> A miswaak was brought to
Rasulullah (sallallahu ‘alaihi wasallam), and he asked me to chew it for him
and soften it for him, which I did (and he then used the miswaak, due to which
my saliva was in his blessed mouth when he departed from this world).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: firebrick; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">(Finally,)
Rasulullah (sallallahu ‘alaihi wasallam) departed from this world while
reclining on me, (with his blessed head) between my lap and my chest, and he
was buried in my home.”</span></span><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> <em style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">(Siyaru Aa’laamin Nubalaa vol.
2, pg. 147)</span></em><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Sayyidah
‘Aaishah (radhiyallahu ‘anha) was blessed with many other special virtues and
bounties by Allah Ta‘ala. Nevertheless, from these great virtues, we can
understand the high rank and status that Allah Ta‘ala had blessed her with.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Insha-Allah,
in the following weeks, we will take glimpses into the blessed life of this
outstanding personality so that she may serve as an inspiration to us all.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />Princesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02008181033202521006noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7822459990247959403.post-60414761377562122422020-03-18T17:20:00.000+02:002020-03-18T17:20:09.091+02:00Concealed or Revealed?<div align="right" class="buttonheading" style="float: right; line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; outline: 0px; text-align: right; vertical-align: baseline;">
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<span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">It is necessary, among other conditions, for a woman’s clothing to cover her
entire body and hair (with the exception of her hands till her wrists and feet)
before non-mahram men. </span><span style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: firebrick; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">Furthermore,
the clothing should neither be transparent, thus exposing the body, nor should
it be tight-fitting, thus revealing the shape of the body and limbs.</span></span><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Rasululah (sallallahu ‘alaihi wasallam) taught
the Sahaabah (radhiyallahu ‘anhum) to take these aspects very seriously and </span><span style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: firebrick; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">practically taught them to dress with hayaa and concealment.</span></span><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Sayyiduna Dihyah Kalbi (radhiyallahu ‘anhu)
narrates, “Rasulullah once received some Egyptian cloths as a gift. Rasulullah
(sallallahu ‘alaihi wasallam) then took one of the cloths and gave it to me
saying, ‘Cut it in half. Make a kurta with one half, </span><span style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: firebrick; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">and give the other half to your wife so that she can wear it as a
scarf.’</span></span><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> Then, as Rasulullah (sallallahu ‘alaihi wasallam) turned
to leave, he said, </span><span style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: firebrick; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">‘Instruct
your wife to place a cloth beneath the scarf so that her hair is not revealed
(due to the thinness of the cloth).’”</span></span><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> <em style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0cm;">(Sunan Abi Dawood #4116)</span></em><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Similarly, on one occasion, Sayyidah Asmaa
(radhiyallahu ‘anha), the respected sister of Sayyidah ‘Aaishah (radhiyallahu
‘anha), entered the home wearing a thin garment. Rasulullah (sallallahu ‘alaihi
wasallam) immediately turned away from her and corrected her, explaining to her
that she should not wear such thin clothing as it was insufficient in
concealing her body. <em style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0cm;">(Sunan Abi Dawood #4104)</span></em><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">This lesson of hayaa in clothing, taught by
Rasulullah (sallallahu ‘alaihi wasallam), was so deeply entrenched in the heart
of Sayyidah Asmaa (radhiyallahu ‘anha) that </span><span style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: firebrick; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">she
remained particular regarding hayaa in her dressing until the end of her life.</span></span><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Hence, when she reached old age, her son, Munzir
bin Zubair (rahimahullah), after returning from Iraq, sent her a cloth of very
fine and superior quality as a gift. </span><span style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: firebrick; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">She had
lost her sight, and so held the fabric in her hand, feeling it carefully.</span></span><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> Then
she said, “Return the cloth to him.” When the cloth was returned to Munzir
(rahimahullah), he felt hurt (as his beloved mother had returned his gift) and
said to her, </span><span style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: firebrick; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">“O my beloved mother! The cloth
is not transparent (so it is fine for you to wear)!”</span></span><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> Sayyidah
Asmaa (radhiyallahu ‘anha) replied, </span><span style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: firebrick; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">“It may
not be transparent, but it will still reveal the shape of the body (due to it
being tight-fitting).”</span></span><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> Understanding the reason for his mother’s
disapproval, he thereafter bought her common garments. </span><span style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: firebrick; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">She happily accepted them saying, “It is these types of garments
that you should give me to wear.”</span></span><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> <em style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0cm;">(Tabaqaat Ibni Sa’d vol. 8, pg.
252)</span></em><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">If Sayyidah Asmaa (radhiyallahu ‘anha) was
extremely particular regarding hayaa and purdah, then her sister, </span><span style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: firebrick; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">Sayyidah ‘Aaishah (radhiyallahu ‘anha), the mother of the
believers, was also very particular and strict in this regard.</span></span><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> Hence,
it is reported that on one occasion, the niece of Sayyidah ‘Aaishah
(radhiyallahu ‘anha), Hafsah bintu ‘Abdir Rahmaan (rahimahallah), entered the
home of Sayyidah ‘Aaishah (radhiyallahu ‘anha) wearing a scarf that was thin
(and thus revealed the hair). On seeing this, </span><span style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: firebrick; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">Sayyidah ‘Aaishah (radhiyallahu ‘anha) took the thin scarf, tore
it, and gave Hafsah (rahimahallah) a thick scarf to wear.</span></span><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> <em style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0cm;">(Muwatta Maalik #3383)</span></em><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Perhaps one of the most amazing and
inspirational incidents in this regard is that of Sayyidah Ummu Khallaad
(radhiyallahu ‘anhuma). Her son, Sayyiduna Kallaad (radhiyallahu ‘anhu) was
martyred during the battle against the Banu Quraizah tribe of the Jews, due to
a woman throwing a rock on him from a hill. So Sayyidah Ummu Khallaad
(radhiyallahu ‘anhuma) came to Rasulullah (sallallahu ‘alaihi wasallam) to
enquire about her son’s status and reward in the Hereafter. </span><span style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: firebrick; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">However, despite the circumstance being one of grief and sorrow,
she was not unmindful of her modesty, and thus concealed her face with the
niqaab (purdah) before coming to Rasulullah (sallallahu ‘alaihi wasallam).</span></span><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> Noticing
this, one Sahaabi was astonished at her not neglecting the covering of her face
even in this emotional situation and remarked, “You have come to enquire about
your son (who was martyred) yet you have still covered your face (in this
tragic moment)?” </span><span style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: firebrick; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">She replied, “I may have lost
my son, but I have not lost my modesty.”</span></span><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> <em style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0cm;">(Sunan Abi Dawood #2488 and
Bazlul Majhood)</span></em><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">These are just a few incidents from the lives of
the Sahaabiyaat (radhiyallahu ‘anhunna) which clearly highlight the importance
they showed to hayaa and dressing correctly. </span><span style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: firebrick; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">We thus understand that this level of hayaa is the normal required
level, expected of every Muslimah, and cannot be labeled as ‘extreme’ or ‘going
overboard’,</span></span><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> as this was the hayaa advocated by Rasulullah (sallallahu
‘alaihi wasallam) and the Sahaabah (radhiyallahu ‘anhum).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="outline: 0px;"><em style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: firebrick; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">Society today may “dress to
kill”, but a Muslim should always “dress to conceal”.</span></em></span><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
Princesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02008181033202521006noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7822459990247959403.post-33707222225201792962020-03-16T14:04:00.000+02:002020-03-16T14:04:04.585+02:00Creating the World<br />
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<span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Allah Ta‘ala
is the Creator of everything. He created the entire world in just six days.
Allah Ta‘ala is so powerful, that He never ever feels tired. Even when He
created the whole world, He did not feel exhausted or tired.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Allah Ta‘ala
created the earth and made all the different types and colours of soil. Allah
Ta‘ala made some soil fine and dry, like the sand in the desert, and some soil
wet and sticky, like clay. He made some soil brown, some soil red and some soil
black. In some places, Allah Ta‘ala placed huge, heavy mountains on the earth,
and in other places, He created valleys and open plains.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Allah Ta‘ala
created all the different plants and trees. The tall towering trees, the short,
thorny bushes, the attractive flowers with their beautiful colours and
patterns, and all the different vegetables with their different tastes – all
these are the creation of Allah Ta‘ala. Allah Ta‘ala created the beautiful red
roses, the crunchy apples, the sweet strawberries, and many other wonderful
things.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Allah Ta‘ala
created all the oceans and all the rivers on the earth. He made the different
oceans and rivers different colours, and made the water of some salty, while
others have sweet water. Some He made with high waves and strong tides, while
He made others with calm and peaceful water.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Allah Ta‘ala
created the sky, high above the earth. In the sky, Allah Ta‘ala placed the sun,
to give light and warmth during the day, and the moon and stars, to give light
and guidance at night. Allah Ta‘ala also placed clouds in the sky, to rain
water onto the plants and to fill the rivers and lakes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Allah Ta‘ala
created all the animals in the ocean. From the eight-legged octopus and the
dangerous shark to the delightful dolphin and the gigantic whale – all were
created by Allah Ta‘ala. Similarly, Allah Ta‘ala created all the animals on
land, like the poisonous snake, the roaring lion, the playful monkey and the
tall giraffe. Likewise, Allah Ta‘ala created the birds in the sky, such as the
graceful eagles, the pigeons and all the other birds. Allah Ta‘ala even created
all the insects, from the buzzing bee and the busy ant to the slow snail and
the green grasshopper. Allah Ta‘ala made all these creatures in different
colours, shapes and sizes, and made all of them beautiful to look at.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Everything
that we see and know was created by Allah Ta‘ala. He created the water we
drink, the air we breathe, the sounds that we hear and every other thing in the
world.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Why did
Allah Ta‘ala create everything? Allah Ta‘ala created this entire world and
everything in it for us – the children of Nabi Aadam (‘alaihis salaam). Allah
Ta‘ala created everything so that we can use all these things to live in the
world while we worship Him and recognize that He is our creator.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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we always read the du‘aa when we eat, and thank Allah Ta‘ala for the food He
gave us, and we read the du‘aa when we drink, and thank Allah Ta‘ala for what
He gave us to drink. When it rains and the plants grow, we remember that the
rain is from Allah Ta‘ala and thank Him. Wherever we are in the world, and
whatever we look at, it reminds us and makes us think of Allah Ta‘ala, as He is
the One who created it so perfectly. We thank Him for everything and worship
Him because He is our Creator.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />Princesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02008181033202521006noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7822459990247959403.post-27009879763197369902020-03-16T13:12:00.003+02:002020-03-16T13:12:49.190+02:00The Cycle of Life<h2 style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;">
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(radhiyallahu ‘anhu) and said, “O Ameerul Mu-mineen! We have an Imaam who is a
youngster and leads us in the ‘Asr Salaah. </span><span style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: firebrick; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">After he
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this, Sayyiduna ‘Umar (radhiyallahu ‘anhu) said, “Take me to him.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">They thus proceeded with Sayyiduna ‘Umar
(radhiyallahu ‘anhu) to meet the youngster. When they arrived at his home and
knocked on the door, he emerged and asked, “O Ameerul Mu-mineen! What has
brought you here?” Sayyiduna ‘Umar (radhiyallahu ‘anhu) replied, “I have
received a bad report regarding you – you are reciting couplets after the
salaah!” </span><span style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: firebrick; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">The youngster responded, “The
couplets are words of advice which I recite as a reminder to myself.”</span></span><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">When Sayyiduna ‘Umar (radhiyallahu ‘anhu) heard
this, he requested the youngster to recite the couplets for him, but the
youngster expressed reluctance and said, “I am afraid to recite these couplets
before you.” Sayyiduna ‘Umar (radhiyallahu ‘anhu) replied, </span><span style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: firebrick; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">“Go ahead. If the words have an excellent meaning, I will recite
them with you, and if they have a bad meaning, I will prohibit you from
reciting them.”</span></span><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">The
youngster lowered his head for a few moments, and then recited the following
couplets:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<em style="outline: 0px;"><span style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: firebrick; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">My heart is such that whenever
I caution it (to refrain from evil), it returns to sinful pleasures, trying to
exhaust me (by rebelling against my effort to reform my ways).</span></span></em><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" style="line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; outline: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;">
<em style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">It seems that it will continue to chase after amusements and
pleasures for its entire life span. It has tormented me with its persistence
and obstinance.</span></em><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" style="line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; outline: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="outline: 0px;"><em style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: firebrick; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">O
evil companion! How long will this childish behaviour continue? Your entire
life will pass like this, in amusement and play.</span></em></span><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" style="line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; outline: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;">
<em style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">My youth is leaving me and departing, before I am able to use it
to achieve my aspirations.</span></em><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" style="line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; outline: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;">
<em style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">After my youth departs, I anticipate nothing but leaving this
world, white hair (old age) will hamper my striving to fulfil my ambitions.</span></em><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" style="line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; outline: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="outline: 0px;"><em style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: firebrick; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">O
my carnal self! How I wish that you never existed, and how I wish that I never
had evil desires! Adopt taqwa before your Master (Allah Ta‘ala), fear Him and
remain afraid of Him!</span></em></span><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">When Sayyiduna ‘Umar (radhiyallahu ‘anhu) heard
this, he repeated the last couplet while crying and said to those present, </span><span style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: firebrick; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">“If any one of you wishes to recite couplets of poetry, then it is
couplets such as these that he should recite.”</span></span><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; outline: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">
<em style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">(Taareekh Ibni ‘Asaakir vol. 44, pg. 312 and ‘Uyoonul Hikaayaat
pg. 75)</span></em><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<strong style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;"><br /></span></strong></div>
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<strong style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">Lessons:</span></strong><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">1. When a complaint would be brought to
Sayyiduna ‘Umar (radhiyallahu ‘anhu), he would not immediately arrive at a
conclusion.</span><span style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: firebrick; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;"> Rather, he would ensure
that he first investigated it and allowed the accused person to respond and
voice his side of the story.</span></span><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; outline: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">2. These couplets describe the cycle of life. </span><span style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: firebrick; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">Many people continue chasing after amusement and pleasures, never
outgrowing their obsession with entertainment.</span></span><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> Hence,
despite being grown adults, and even having children or grandchildren, they
continue ‘playing’ – it is just that the ‘toys’ change (e.g. from a toy car to
a sport’s car). </span><span style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: firebrick; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">Thus, we need to do as this
youngster had done – we need to continuously remind ourselves and others of the
Hereafter and our objective on earth.</span></span><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> In this way, we will remain
focused on the task at hand – remaining obedient to Allah Ta‘ala.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; outline: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">3. The energy, passion, strength, enthusiasm,
vigour and motivation that a person enjoys in his youth is not enjoyed
afterwards, when he advances in age. For example, it is far easier for a
youngster to memorize the Quraan Majeed and become a Haafiz than it is for an
older person. </span><span style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: firebrick; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">Hence, the youth should value
their youth, and parents should guide them appropriately, to utilize this
period to progress in Deen and gain the nearness of Allah Ta‘ala.</span></span><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> Sadly,
we tend to do the opposite. We neglect our salaah when we are young, and then
struggle to perform many years’ of qadhaa later on, when we are weak, old and
sickly.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div style="line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; outline: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: firebrick; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">4. Evil
desires and temptations are part of our human nature and cannot be eliminated.</span></span><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> However,
we can exercise control over these temptations and desires by restraining
ourselves from falling into sin. </span><span style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: firebrick; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">The most
effective way of achieving this is to inculcate the awareness, consciousness
and fear of Allah Ta‘ala. </span></span><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
Princesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02008181033202521006noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7822459990247959403.post-88263675598945688352020-02-24T13:15:00.001+02:002020-02-24T13:15:26.609+02:00Shut the Door!
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<span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">It is almost every person’s nightmare to wake
up, in the middle of the night, and see a complete stranger standing at the
foot of the bed, gun in hand. In fact, this fear of an intrusion is so firmly
entrenched in the minds of people, that before retiring to bed they ensure that
they lock all doors, close all windows, switch on the floodlights and activate
the alarm.</span></div>
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<div style="line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; outline: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: firebrick; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">But what
many people forget is the intruder you DON’T see at the foot of your bed (or
anywhere else at all for that matter) - the shayaateen and evil jinn.</span></span><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> They
enter the home with mischievous motives, surreptitiously sowing the seeds of
discord and disharmony, whispering evil insinuations into the hearts and doing
their best to spread grief, heartache, unhappiness and sorrow among the
household.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: firebrick; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">Furthermore,
there is no fence, whether electrified or with barbed wire, and there is no
door, gate, burglar bar or alarm that can prevent their entry.</span></span><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> Rather,
they enter when they wish, from where they wish, and stay as long as they wish,
causing more and more damage, day by day.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Fortunately, our beloved Rasulullah (sallallahu
‘alaihi wasallam) taught us an easy yet effective method to bar these threats
from our homes. In one hadeeth, Rasulullah (sallallahu ‘alaihi wasallam) said, </span><span style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: firebrick; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">“Lock the doors and take the name of Allah Ta‘ala when doing so,
for shaitaan cannot open a door which was locked (with the name of Allah
Ta‘ala).”</span></span><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> <em style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">(Saheeh Bukhaari #3304)</span></em></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><em style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;"><br /></span></em></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">In this hadeeth, although the word ‘door’ has
been specifically mentioned, it is not restricted to doors. Rather, through
reciting ‘bismillah’ at the time of closing the doors, one will prevent
shaitaan from entering the home through all avenues (through the walls, roof,
floors, etc.). Hence, the reason for mentioning doors specifically is that
doors provide the easiest entry into the home. Thus, when the shayaateen cannot
enter via the doors, it will be even more difficult for them to enter via any
other avenue. <em style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">(Mirqaat vol. 8, pg. 115)</span></em></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><em style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;"><br /></span></em></span></div>
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<span style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: firebrick; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">In
essence, together with reciting the du‘aas of protection, we should practice on
this sunnah as well, as it will safeguard our homes and transform them into
sanctuaries of peace and happiness.</span></span></div>
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<span style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: firebrick; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: firebrick; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">May Allah (swt) always safeguard from the seen and unseen enemies Aameen!</span></span></div>
<b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike>Princesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02008181033202521006noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7822459990247959403.post-62075834051418572302020-02-11T11:23:00.002+02:002020-02-11T11:23:38.201+02:00Cautious in Consumption<div align="right" class="buttonheading" style="float: right; line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; outline: 0px; text-align: right; vertical-align: baseline;">
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father would send her this money from the profit he made by selling mats which
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<span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">The
neighbour of Abul Hasan Makki (rahimahullah), Ibnur Rawwaas, relates the
following:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">I intended leaving for hajj, and so I came to
Abul Hasan (rahimahullah) to bid him farewell, ask him if he needed anything,
and to request his du‘aa. He thus handed me a paper bag and said, </span><span style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: firebrick; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">“Ask the people of Makkah Mukarramah to direct you to so-and-so
woman in such-and-such location and hand this to her.” I understood that the
parcel was for his daughter.</span></span><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">I accepted the paper bag and on arriving in
Makkah Mukarramah, I made enquiries regarding the woman, and discovered that
her ‘ibaadah and disinterest in the world had become so famous among the people
that she was known by one and all. </span><span style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: firebrick; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">I thus
decided to add some of my own money to the money that her father had sent so
that I would also have a share in the reward.</span></span><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> However,
since I anticipated that she would not accept money from me, I opened the paper
bag and secretly increased the amount from thirty coins to fifty, thereafter
resealing the bag.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">When I handed her the bag, she asked me, “How is
my father?” I replied, “He is well.” </span><span style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: firebrick; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">She
thereafter remarked, “It seems as though he has begun to spend time in the company
of the people of the world, and he has abandoned dedicating himself to Allah
Ta‘ala.”</span></span><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> She then said to me, “I wish to ask you something, so I
beseech you, in the name of Allah Ta‘ala, that Being for whom you are
performing hajj, to answer me truthfully.” I responded, “Certainly!”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: firebrick; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">She
asked, “Did you mix some of your own wealth into this money?”</span></span><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> I
answered, “Yes, but how did you know?” She said, “My father would not give me
more than thirty dirhams, as he cannot afford to give me more than that. The
only way that he could have given me more would have been if he had given up
his dedication to ‘ibaadah (and spent more time in earning wealth). </span><span style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: firebrick; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">If you had informed me that this was indeed the case with my
father then I would not have taken anything from his wealth either.”</span></span><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Having said this, she addressed me saying, </span><span style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: firebrick; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">“Take the entire amount of money away, for you have not fulfilled
your duty towards me (of discharging the trust of the money to me),</span></span><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> despite
being able to do so.” In response, I asked her, “How is this?” She answered, “I
will not consume any wealth unless it was earned by myself or by my father. </span><span style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: firebrick; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">Likewise, I will not accept any wealth unless I am able to verify
its condition</span></span><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> (i.e. whether it was earned through halaal sources or
otherwise).”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">I responded saying, “In that case, take the
thirty dirhams which your father sent for you and return the rest.” She
retorted, </span><span style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: firebrick; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">“If I was able to identify
those exact coins, from all the other coins, then I would certainly do so.
However, my father’s coins have now been mixed with the other coins (and I
cannot separate them). Hence, I will not accept any of the coins.</span></span><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> Now, I
will have to live off the dumps in order to survive until the next hajj season
(when my father will send money again), as this money was my allowance for the
entire year. You have put me into hunger (and difficulty). Had your intention
not been to assist me, I would have cursed you.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">After completing my hajj, I returned to Basrah,
grieved and remorseful over what had transpired. I went to Abul Hasan
(rahimahullah), informed him of what had happened and apologized to him. </span><span style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: firebrick; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">(After hearing me out,) he said, “I will not take this money from
you, as it has now mixed with the other money (and cannot be separated). You
have been undutiful to me and to her.”</span></span><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> (Completely at a loss,)
I asked him, “What should I do with the coins?” He replied, “I don’t know.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">I persevered
for some time, continuously apologizing to him and asking him what I should do
with the money, until he eventually said, “Give it in sadaqah.” I thus gave it
in charity.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<em style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">(Sifatus Safwah vol. 1, pg. 448)</span></em><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<strong style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;"><br /></span></strong></div>
<div style="line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; outline: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">
<strong style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">Lessons:</span></strong><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; outline: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: firebrick; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">1. What a
person consumes has a direct impact and effect on his actions, the condition of
his heart and his motivation towards righteousness.</span></span><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> Furthermore,
‘what we consume’ is not restricted to the food we eat, but includes the wealth
that we earn, etc. It is for this reason that the pious people of the past
would exercise such caution regarding their wealth.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: firebrick; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; outline: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: firebrick; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">2. The
pious do not only abstain from that which is clearly impermissible, but also
refrain from that which is doubtful. </span></span><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Likewise, if they are unable to
verify that something is completely halaal (e.g. due to lack of information,
the inability to inquire, etc.) then they exercise caution and refrain.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">3. The purpose of doing a person a favour is to
bring comfort to the person. Hence, before doing the favour, we must ensure
that the person will be comfortable with what we are doing. </span><span style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: firebrick; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">Otherwise, we may think that we are doing him a favour, whereas we
are actually doing him a disservice and causing him inconvenience.</span></span><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> If we
know a person very well, then we will be acquainted with their temperament and
will be able to bring them comfort. If we are not well acquainted with their
temperament then we should rather enquire before doing anything, as although we
may mean well, we may unintentionally put the person through
difficulty. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
Princesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02008181033202521006noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7822459990247959403.post-7042504425435291642020-01-30T08:53:00.001+02:002020-01-30T08:53:56.201+02:00The Day of Uhud
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<span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><img height="158" id="_x0000_i1025" src="http://uswatulmuslimah.co.za/images/stories/an-amazing-display-of-love.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; float: right; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 0px; outline: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="200" />The Day of Uhud was
indeed a severe day for the Muslims, as no less than seventy Sahaabah
(radhiyallahu ‘anhum) were martyred in the battle against the disbelievers.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">In the
aftermath of the battle, a few women of Madeenah Munawwarah made their way to
Uhud to enquire after their near and dear ones. Among these women was Sayyidah
‘Aaishah (radhiyallahu ‘anha).</span></div>
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<span style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: firebrick; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">En-route,
she encountered Sayyidah Hind bintu ‘Amr bin Haraam (radhiyallahu ‘anha) who
was driving a camel which was carrying the bodies of three martyrs on it.</span></span><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> Sayyidah
‘Aaishah (radhiyallahu ‘anha) asked her regarding the state of the Muslims in
Uhud. Sayyidah Hind (radhiyallahu ‘anha) replied, “(They are in a) good (state).</span><span style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: firebrick; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;"> As for Rasulullah (sallallahu ‘alaihi wasallam) then he is
safe, and every calamity is easy to bear after him (i.e. after knowing that he
(sallallahu ‘alaihi wasallam) is safe)!</span></span><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> As for the other
Muslims, then Allah Ta‘ala blessed some of them with martyrdom, and He turned
back the disbelievers with their fury (rage), not having acquired any good. And
Allah Ta‘ala was sufficient for the believers in battle, and Allah Ta‘ala is
Most Powerful and Most Mighty.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Sayyidah ‘Aaishah (radhiyallahu ‘anha) then
(gestured towards the bodies on the camel and) asked her, “Who are these
(martyrs)?” She replied, </span><span style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: firebrick; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">“My
brother (Sayyiduna ‘Abdullah bin ‘Amr bin Haraam [radhiyallahu ‘anhu]), my son,
Khallaad (radhiyallahu ‘anhu), and my husband, ‘Amr bin Jamooh (radhiyallahu
‘anhu).</span></span><span style="color: firebrick; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">”</span><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> <em style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">(for more on the amazing incident of Sayyiduna ‘Amr bin Jamooh
[radhiyallahu ‘anhu], click </span></em><a href="http://uswatulmuslimah.co.za/general/inspirational-incidents/1062-cripple-or-capable.html" style="outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;"><em style="outline: 0px;"><b><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #94c05a; font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">here</span></b></em></a><em style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">)</span></em></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Sayyidah ‘Aaishah (radhiyallahu ‘anha) asked
her, “Where are you taking their bodies?” She replied, “I am talking them to
Madeenah Munawwarah to bury their bodies there.” Saying this, she urged the
camel to move, but the camel (refused to move towards Madeenah Munawwarah and
instead) knelt on its knees. Observing this, Sayyidah ‘Aaishah (radhiyallahu
‘anha) commented, “The camel is perhaps kneeling as it cannot manage carrying a
load this heavy?” Sayyidah Hind (radhiyallahu ‘anha) responded, “That is not
the problem! This camel often carried the load of two camels! I suspect that
there is some other reason for it kneeling.” </span><span style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: firebrick; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">She then reprimanded the camel, succeeding in making it stand, but
when she directed it towards Madeenah Munawwarah, it knelt once again and
refused to move.</span></span><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Eventually, when she turned the camel back
towards Uhud, the camel proceeded swiftly. On returning to Uhud, she went to
Rasulullah (sallallahu ‘alaihi wasallam) and informed him of the camel’s
refusal to take the bodies to Madeenah Munawwarah. On hearing this, Rasulullah
(sallallahu ‘alaihi wasallam) replied, “This camel has been commanded (by Allah
Ta‘ala). Did ‘Amr (radhiyallahu ‘anhu) say anything (before leaving for Uhud)?” </span><span style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: firebrick; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">Sayyidah Hind (radhiyallahu ‘anha) replied, “When he was heading
towards Uhud, he faced the qiblah and made du‘aa saying, “O Allah! Do not send
me back to my family as a failure, and bless me with martyrdom!”</span></span><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Hearing this, Rasulullah (sallallahu ‘alaihi
wasallam) said, “That is the reason why the camel is refusing to move (towards
Madeenah Munawwarah, as ‘Amr (radhiyallahu ‘anhu) had made du‘aa that he should
not return home).” Rasulullah (sallallahu ‘alaihi wasallam) then said, “From
you, O Ansaar, there are certain people who are such (i.e. so beloved to Allah
Ta‘ala) that if he takes an oath in the name of Allah Ta‘ala, then Allah Ta‘ala
will most certainly fulfill his oath, and one such person is ‘Amr bin Jamooh
(radhiyallahu ‘anhu). </span><span style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: firebrick; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">I have
indeed seen him walking with his limp in Jannah. O Hind! The angels have
continued to shade your brother, from the time he was killed until now, waiting
for him to be buried.”</span></span><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">After they were buried, Rasulullah (sallallahu
‘alaihi wasallam) addressed Sayyidah Hind (radhiyallahu ‘anha) and said, “O
Hind! All of them are together in Jannah.” </span><span style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: firebrick; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">She
replied, “O Rasul of Allah (sallallahu ‘alaihi wasallam)! Make du‘aa to Allah
Ta‘ala to allow me to be with them!”</span></span><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"></span></div>
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Rashaad vol. 4, pg. 214)</span></em><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"></span></div>
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<strong style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">Lessons:</span></strong><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">1. The Sahaabah (radhiyallahu ‘anhum) had such
love for Rasulullah (sallallahu ‘alaihi wasallam), </span><span style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: firebrick; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">that their love for him surpassed their love for their own kith
and kin and indeed even their love for themselves.</span></span><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> Hence,
there are similar incidents recorded of other women who lost their kith and kin
in the Battle of Uhud, yet expressed that their greater concern was for the
safety of Rasulullah (sallallahu ‘alaihi wasallam). </span><span style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: firebrick; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">It was this love for Rasulullah (sallallahu ‘alaihi wasallam) that
motivated them to follow his every guidance, teaching and command
unquestioningly and display complete submission before him.</span></span><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> Hence,
the mark of true love for Rasulullah (sallallahu ‘alaihi wasallam) is that one
sacrifices his own ways, ideas, inclinations and mindset for that of Rasulullah
(sallallahu ‘alaihi wasallam) and the sunnah.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">2. In the path of Deen, there was no sacrifice
too great for the Sahaabah (radhiyallahu ‘anhum). They were prepared to
sacrifice their wealth, parents and even their children in the path of Allah
Ta‘ala. </span><span style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: firebrick; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">At the very least, we should
sacrifice our impermissible desires and unlawful demands of our family members
to remain loyal to Allah Ta‘ala and earn His pleasure.</span></span><span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"></span></div>
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(radhiyallahu ‘anhunna) so that they may take guidance from their exemplary
lives and choose these illustrious and pure women as their role models, Uswatul
Muslimah (Role Models for the Muslimah) regularly conducts programmes on the
lives of the Sahaabiyyaat (radhiyallahu ‘anhunna), highlighting pertinent
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is a transcript of the programmes that were conducted on the pure lives of the
honourable and beloved daughters of Rasulullah (sallallahu ‘alaihi wasallam);
Sayyidah Ruqayyah and Ummu Kulthoom (radhiyallahu ‘anhuma).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Allah Ta‘ala
has declared the Sahaabah (radhiyallahu ‘anhum) as those who are truly worthy
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<span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">In order to
acquaint the Muslim women of this age with the lives of the Sahaabiyyaat
(radhiyallahu ‘anhuma) so that they may take guidance from their exemplary
lives and choose these illustrious and pure women as their role models, Uswatul
Muslimah (Role Models for the Muslimah) regularly conducts programmes on the
lives of the Sahaabiyyaat (radhiyallahu ‘anhuma), highlighting pertinent
lessons that are applicable to our daily lives.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6f3145; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">This eBook
is a transcript of the programme that was conducted on the pure life of the </span><span style="font-size: 14px;">honorable</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"> and beloved daughter of Rasulullah (sallallahu ‘alaihi wasallam),
Sayyidah Zainab (radhiyallahu ‘anha).<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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