How a Pearl
Protects Itself
When our Beloved
Nabee sal Allahu alayhi wa sallam - stood on the plain of Arafat and gave
his farewell speech he said to the Ummah, "Treat your women
kindly!" History records that in Europe in the same year, at the
same time that Islam was saying this, the Christian clergy were arguing whether
a women was a human or an animal! Those clergymen are the ancestors of the
Kuffar that now want to 'liberate' you.
Kindly pass this enspiring Khutbah on to your wives, sisters, mothers ,
daughters and all other Muslim women.
Khutbah by Muhammad Alshareef
How A Pearl Protects Itself,
A Khutbah for our Muslim Women
When news of the Christian army that had prepared on the horizons to wipe out
Islam reached him, Abu Qudaamah Ash-Shaamee moved quickly to the Mimbar of the
Masjid. In a powerful and emotional speech, Abu Qudaamah ignited the desire of
the community to defend their land, Jihad for the sake of Allah. As he left the
Masjid, walking down a dark and secluded alley, a women stopped him and said,
"As salamu alaykum wa Rahmatullaah!"
Abu Qudaamah stopped and did not answer. She repeated her salam again, adding
"this is not how pious people should act." She stepped forward from
the shadows. "I heard you in the Masjid encouraging the believers to go
for Jihad and all I have is this" She handed him two long braids. "It
can be used for a horse rein. Perhaps Allah may write me as one of those who
went for Jihaad."
The next day as that Muslim village set out to confront the crusader army, a
young boy ran through the gathering and stood at the hooves of Abu Qudaamah's
horse. "I ask you by Allah to allow me to join the army."
Some of the elder fighters laughed at the boy. "The horses will trample
you," they said. But Abu Qudaamah looked down into his eyes as he asked
again, "I ask you by Allah, let me join." Abu Qudaamah then said,
"On one condition, if you are killed you will take me with you to Jannah
amongst those you will be allowed to intercede for." That young boy
smiled. "It's a promise."
When the two armies met and the fighting intensified, the young boy on the back
of Abu Qudaamah's horse asked, "I ask you by Allah to give me 3
arrows." "You'll lose them!" The boy repeated, "I ask you
by Allah to give me them." Abu Qudaamah gave him the arrows and the boy
took aim.
"Bismillaah!" The arrow flew and killed a Roman.
"Bismillaah!"
The second arrow flew, killing a second Roman. "Bismillaah!" The
third arrow flew, killing a third Roman. An arrow then struck the boy in the
chest - knocking him off the horse. Abu Qudaamah jumped down to his side,
reminding the boy in his final breaths, "Don't forget the promise!"
The boy reached into his pocket, extracted a pouch and said, "Please
return this to my mother."
"Who's your mother?" asked Abu Qudaamah.
"The women that gave you the braids yesterday."
Think about this Muslimah. How did she reach this level of Taqwa where she
would sacrifice her hair when today other women do the same to imitate Kafir
icons, and her son when other women would die so long as their son stayed home.
Indeed, she spent her life in the obedience of Allah, and when exam time came,
she passed.
Not only did she pass herself, but her children shone with that same beauty of
Iman, children that she herself raised. Very often - and perhaps in our times
when we have forgotten much of the Sunnah - the lectures, khutbahs, and talks
are all directed to the Muslim men. We forget that from the Hady - guidance and
way - of Rasul Allah - sal Allahu alayhi wa sallam - was that he would allocate
a specific day of the week to teach the women. Women would come up to him in
Hajj, in the street, even in his home and ask him questions about the Deen. At
the Eid Salah, after addressing the men, he would take Bilal and go to the
women section and address the women. Allah revealed an entire Surah by the name
of Surah An-Nisa = the Women. And another by the name of - Maryam. And a third
by the name of al Mujaadalah =the women who pleads.
It is in enlivening this Sunnah that today this speech shall be addressed to
the believing women, al-Mu'minaat.
Dear Sister, Dear Mother, Dear Daughter. Everyone is looking for happiness and
fun, and I am sure you are not excluded. Where is that happiness and fun
though? And where and when do you want that happiness? Do you want happiness,
do you want to have 'fun' in this life at the expense of the hereafter? Or is
it in the hereafter, when you meet Allah that you want to be happy?
Every where you go you shall find a swarm of people and media and culture
swearing to you that happiness is the happiness of the Dunya. Is it really
happiness though? On the day of Repayment, Allah shall take the most 'happiest'
kafir of the Dunya and dip him in Jahannam = Hellfire. Then he shall ask him,
"Have you ever seen any happiness?" The Kafir will say,
"Never!"
Nay, the happiness is only the happiness of the hereafter no matter what
happens in this Dunya. Allah shall bring on the Day of Repayment the most
tested human and dip him in Jannah (Paradise). He shall then ask
him, "Have you ever seen sadness?" And that person shall say,
"Never!" And don't think that this happiness and fun is exclusive to
the hereafter. It is very much tied to this life as well. Listen and understand
the words of Allah:
Whoever works righteousness, whether male or female, while he (or she) is a
true believer verily to him We will give a good life (in this world with
respect, contentment and lawful provision), and We shall pay them certainly a
reward in proportion to the best of what they used to do (i.e. Paradise
in the Hereafter). Surah AnNahl verse97.
Dear Sister, you have to understand that you or anyone may enter Hellfire! By
Allah, we are not better than Fatimah, the daughter of Rasul Allah -sal
Allahu alayhi wa sallam. And he said to her, "O Fatimah the daughter of
Muhammad, Ask me whatever you wish from my wealth, for I shall avail you but
nothing to Allah." Meaning that it doesn't matter if you're my daughter,
if you don't work for Jannah, saying to Allah that my father is so and so will
not help you in anyway.
Islam is filled with many Mu'minahs that completed their Taqwa of Allah. Then
the other girls put up posters of kafir singers and kafir athletes and kafir
actresses, you should put up posters in your heart of Fatimah and many other
Mu'minahs. Aasiyah, the wife of Fir'own. Her Iman in Allah thrived under
the shadow of someone that said, "I am your Lord, Most High!" When
news reached Fir'own of his wife's Iman he beat her and commanded his guards to
beat her. They took her out in the scalding noon heat, tied her hand feet
and beat her perpetually. Who did she turn to? She turned to Allah! She prayed,
"My lord, build for me a home with you in Paradise and save me from
Fir'own and his deeds and save me from the transgressive people."
It was narrated that when she said this, the sky opened for her and she
saw her home in Paradise. She smiled. The guards watched astonished she's
being tortured and she smiles? Frustrated, Fir'own commanded a boulder to be
brought and dropped on Aasiyah, to crush her to death. But Allah
took her soul before the boulder was brought and she became an example for all
the believing men and women till the end of time:
[And Allah has set forth an example for those who believe: the wife of Fir'own
(Pharaoh) when she said, "My Lord, Build for me a home with You in
Paradise, and save me from Fir'own and his deeds, and save me from the
transgressive-disbelieving people.] -Tahreem 66/11.
When we talk about Jihad and Shuhadaa' - martyrs, do you know who the first
Muslim in Islam to be killed in the path of Allah was? It was Summayah, the
mother of Ammar. When Abu Jahl heard of her Islam and her husband Yaasir and
her son Ammar, he whipped them all and beat them. So much so, that Rasul Allah
would pass by them as they went through this test of their Iman and would say
to them, "Be patient O family of Yaasir, for you have a date set (when you
shall enter) Jannah!"
As Abu Jahl beat Sumayyah one day, she refused to recant her Deen, something
that enraged Abu Jahl. He took a spear as she lay on the burning sand, looking
up to the sky, and he speared her through her
midsection. She was the first of her family and the entire Ummah to meet Allah
as a Martyr.
Dear Sister, our role models come from the Quran. You may have heard the story
of the boy and the king. When the entire village became Muslim by the death of
that young boy, the king ordered that an enormous
fire be kindled and that all those who would not recant their religion be burnt
alive. A Mu'minah, stood with her baby over the fire. She looked at her baby,
and seeking her child's weakness and innocence, she
considered turning her back. The baby said to her, "What are you waiting
for mother. Go forward for you are on the truth!" She nodded. Then with
her baby in hand she was pushed to her death.
[And they ill-treated them for no other reason than that they believed in
Allah, Exalted in Power, Worthy of all Praise!- * Him to Whom belongs the
dominion of the heavens and the earth! And Allah is Witness to all things.].- Surah
AlBuruj, 8,9
And dear sister,
your role models come to you from today. As her son tells us, a senior women in
a Muslim land decided that all the vanity that normally happens in the
gatherings of women was not for her. She turned to Salah and praying at night,
and in her old age, she found herself calling to her son one night from her
prayer room. He son says, "I came in and she was in Sajda saying that she
was paralysed!" Her son took her to the doctors and she began a cycle of
rehabilitation, but there was little hope.
She then commanded her son to take her back home, take her back to her prayer
room, take her back to that Sajdah. As she prayed to Allah in her sajdah, the
night came when she called to her son. "Astawdi'ukallaah alladhee laa
yadee'u wa daa'i'uh ( I leave you in the trust of Allah, and whenever something
is left in Allah's trust it is never lost.) She passed away in her sajdah. Her
muscles froze in that position and so they had to wash her body as she was in
Sajdah. The prayed Janazah for her as her
body was in sajdah. The carried her to the grave yard as her body was in
Sajdah.
The buried her as she was in Sajdah. And the Prophet S.A.W. said that we shall all
be resurrected on what we died on, she shall be resurrected on the day of
judgement in Sajdah to Allah Jalla Jalaaluhu wa taqaddasatasmaa'uhu * because
that it how she lived and died.
Part II.
When Imam Ahmad was still young, his father died. He would tell his students of
the work his mother went through in raising him, and he would pray for her. In
the cold Baghdad nights, she would wake long before him to warm the water so
that her son Ahmad could make wudu for Fajr. Then she would wrap him in
blankets, herself cloaked in her Jilbaab, and guide him through the dark, cold alleys
to reach the main Masjid, long before Fajr so that her son could get a good
seat in class. Her son Ahmad - at that age in
grade 2 or 3 - would sit all day long studying Quran and Sunnah, and she would
wait for him to finish so that she could drop him home safely.
At the age of 16, she prepared money and food for him and told him,
"Travel for your search of knowledge." He left for Makkah and Madinah
and many other places and met many great scholars. She raised Ahmad to become
one of the four greatest Imams in Islam. Dear sister, after all this, ask a
non-Muslim what it is that he wants from you? Does he want you to be liberated?
Liberated from what? From Allah and his Messenger? From the Quran and the
Sunnah? From Jannah? From this Deen that Allah chose for you?
And what is he going to give you in return? Happinness? By Allah, he does not
own any happiness to give. Is he going to give you love and protection from
punishment in the grave and from the gatekeepers of hellfire and from death?
Why is it that they want to liberate young beautiful women? Why don't they
liberate the seniors? Why don't they liberate the indigenous? Why don't they
liberate the inmates? Why is their target audience a young and skinny and tall
women (their definition of beauty) between the age
of 13 - 28? And why is their first call for you to take off your Hijab?
Remember that friend if you consider him so carefully, for without any
doubt, by Allah - he shall be your bitterest enemy on the day of Repayment:
[Friends on that day
will be foes, one to another - except the Righteous]
* Surah Zukhruf (43/67)
One Kafirah summed up exactly what they think of women, "It's not who you
are, it's what you wear and what you look like!" And listen to Fabian, a
french 'model' (of what?), as she spit on the fashion industry. "Fashion
houses made me into a mannequin, a wooden idol. The mission: to manipulate
hearts and alter minds. I learnt how to be worthless, nothing on the inside,
cold. We lived in a world of filth in all that filth means."
There is much more than can be said. I shall conclude with the advice of Rasul
Allah - sal Allahu alayhi wa sallam - to every Muslim mother, daughter, and
wife: "If the women prays her five (Salah), fasts her month
(of Ramadan), protects herself (from committing Zina), and listens to her
husband, it will be said to her, 'from any door you wish, enter Paradise!"
Sister, that is
where you want to be. [O ye who believe! give your response to Allah and His
Messenger, when He calls you to that which shall give you life; and know that
Allah cometh between a man and his heart, and that it is He to Whom ye shall
(all) be gathered.] - Surah Anfal 8/24
Allah
and His Messenger are calling you to life. Dear sister, reply!