#sahabiah

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Sebenarnya kalau kita baca sirah, ada ramai sahabiah yang boleh kita jadikan inspirasi serta panduan untuk kita⠀ .⠀ .⠀ ⠀ Hari ni kak Jida nak kongsikan secara ringkas beberapa nama sahabiah yang sangat signifikan untuk kita kenali, namun nama mereka mungkin jarang disebut⠀ .⠀ .⠀ ⠀ Jom rajinkan diri baca sirah. Harapan kita moga di Akhirat kelak kita dapat berjumpa mereka di syurga. MashaAllah indahnya 😍🙏🏻⠀ .⠀ .⠀ ⠀ #ESmuslimahSiapaInspirasiMu #elsajidaShares #sahabiah #elsajidaSahabiahSeries #salafussoleh #muslimah #inspirasi (at Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia) https://www.instagram.com/p/BzpNE0-h2ZX/?igshid=rrwlpidikdjj

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Cinta adalah kebahagiaan. Kebahagiaan yang ada dalam diri kita, yang kemudian dibagikan kepada sesama. Cinta adalah pemberian. Giving, giving and giving.

Ustadzah Haneen Akira

dalam sebuah tausiah berjudul Sebening Embun tentang Zainab putri Rasulullah Shallallahu ‘alaihi wasallam. 

Nangis mendengar kisahnya :’)

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Bangga rasanya mempunyai ibu sehebat Saidatina Khadijah RA, mashaAllah. Betapa kuat semangatnya, betapa berani dia melibatkan diri dalam bidang yang ketika itu hanya didominasi oleh orang lelaki. Khadijah RA bukan peniaga yang biasa-biasa, dia adalah peniaga yang sangat berjaya. Wanita hartawan yang amat menjaga kemuliaan dirinya (sehingga dikenali sebagai at Thahirah) dan banyak membantu golongan yang memerlukan.

Khadijah RA ibu kita, maka seharusnya kita mengikuti jejak langkahnya. Tidak semestinya kita turut menjadi ahli perniagaan sepertinya, akan tetapi alangkah bagus jika kita berjaya meminjam semangat darinya. Tidak gentar menjadi golongan minoriti dan tidak leka dalam berbakti kepada insan lain. Ada sebab kenapa Allah memilihnya sebagai ibu kita, juga sebagai isteri pertama Rasulullah sollallahu alaihi wasallam. Bukan saja-saja takdir dilakar sedemikian, namun ia adalah sebagai suri tauladan, sebagai contoh insan hebat sepanjang zaman, Allahuakbar. Masih mahukah kita untuk terus berpaling dari menjejak langkah ibu kita yang hebat ini? <3

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Jadilah seperti Khadijah. ❤️

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A mother's love. 

How wonderful it is to be blessed with such unconditional love, a love that knows no bounds.

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As many of us have been blessed with such love, we have to remember that there are people who haven't not to compare ourselves to them but to realize the worth of such blessing.

We all have to remember that The Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wassalaam was an orphan child, his father died before his birth and his mother died when he was very young. 

Yet, there were people who fulfilled such places, and one of them was Fatimah Bint Asad, the wife of Abu Talib, the mother of Ali Ibn Abu Talib, the grandmother of Hussain and Hassan Radiyallahu Anhum.

Fatimah Bint Asad Radiyallahu Anha looked after the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wassalaam as if he was her own child, she protected him with all her heart.

She was known for her good nature, intelligence and beautiful capabilities. 

When The Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wassalaam grew up and was given the message of Prophethood and was told by Allah Azza Wa Jall to spread the message of Islam among his kith and kin, it was Fatimah bint Asad who immediately accepted this invitation and swore allegiance and entered the fold of Islam.

The love of Fatimah for The Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wassalaam was exceptional that she would go hungry just so she could feed The Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wassalaam. 

She accompanied The Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wassalaam with trust and love for she was a mother so pure and simple that the well being and safety of her beloved Prophet was her main concern.

The Prophet loved her and respected her so much in return that whenever she visited him he would stand up and receive her addressing her as 'Mother'.

She was there when the horrors of the Qura'ish fell upon the Muslims, she was there along with the caravan that migrated to Abyssinia and then to Al Madinah, she was there when the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wassalaam lost his beloved wife Khadijah Radiyallahu Anha and his best ally, Abu Talib who was her husband. She was with the Prophet and never left his side during those years of hardships. She never left him until the time for her death came.

When she passed away and the Prophet receive the news, he immediately went to her house and sat beside her and prayed for her and said:

"My dear mother, may Allah keep you under His Protection. Many times you went hungry in order to feed me well. You fed me and clothed me on delicacies that you denied yourself. Allah will surely be happy with these actions of yours. And your intentions were surely meant to win the goodwill and pleasure of Allah and success in the Hereafter."

Then he gave his shirt to be used as part of her shroud, saying he prayed to Allah to forgive her and give her the dress of Paradise.

When the grave was prepared The Prophet himself examined it and with his very own hands placed her into the grave, and indeed, she was, for all her love for the Prophet, amongst those few blessed people in whose graves the Prophet himself examined and placed therein.

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How many of us have parted ways from our own mothers? Look at the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wassalaam and her love for his aunt and the one she regarded as mother, isn't that making you think of how you are doing with your own mother?

How many of us, when we arrive at home, give her a kiss or a smile or a hug just because we were happy to see her? Or how many of us truly give time to spend with our mothers? 

My dear brothers and sisters in Islam, today, with the presence and dangers of the society and social media, our mothers are starting to be forgotten!  Reflect from these and ask yourselves such queries:

How can you forget the one who bore you for 9 months, who bore the pain of delivering you to this world? How can you forget the very hands that fed you? How can you forget the very person who looked after you and would give her life just so you are safe and nothing could harm you? How can you have the heart of exchanging time to spend with your own mother with the time to spend with your besties or your buddies doing nothing but talking about boys or girls or whatever wasteful thing there is?

O youth of Islam, remember your duties upon your parents! Remember the worth of your parents, I'm telling you once they are gone, and you're wasting your time just like that, you'll regret every second.

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May Allah Azza Wa Jall make us realize the worth and the beautiful blessing that there is at home, sitting waiting for us everyday. And He guide our sisters in Islam of becoming the likes of Fatimah Bint Asad and our brothers the likes of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wassalaam on showing love for their mothers! Amin

Zohayma

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Excerpt was taken from Great Women of Islam, pp. 158-162

Note: Story has been paraphrased.

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Have you ever heard of the woman who was given the title "the martyr" even though she haven't died a shaheeda [female martyr] yet... but she was known by this title and the Messenger of Allaah Sallallahu Alaihi Wassalaam along with the great Sahabah Radiyallahu Anhum would only address her with this title, the martyr? Ma sha Allaah, and this woman didn't even go and battled out in Jihad, for the when she tried to ask permission from Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi Wassalaam to go and join the battle of Badr with the intention to nurse and help out with medical attention the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wassalaam declined and told her; "Stay in your house, Allaah will bless you with martyrdom." Do you have any clue now, who this blessed woman was? Ma sha Allaah, yes, I am talking about Umm Waraqah Radiyallahu Anha, the woman who devoted all her life in increasing her closeness to Allaah Azza Wa Jall through living and dedicating herself with the Qur'aan. By Allaah, this woman devoted her attention to the Noble Qur'aan reading it, memorizing it and following its teachings and rules, she has made it her main concern in all aspects of her private and public life, and through the Qur'aan she also attained a high and noble status. Umm Waraqah was one of the earliest Ansari female companion that entered the fold of Islaam, she was of high and noble lineage and indeed she was a very wealthy woman, but her luxuries in life didn't shun her from devoting herself solely to things that will bring her closely to Allaah Azza Wa Jall. And we ask, how come she was called "the martyr" when she was alive throughout the prophethood of Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi Wassalaam, the caliphate of Abu Bakr Radiyallahu Anhu up to the caliphate of 'Umar Ibn Al Khattab Radiyallahu Anhu? Well, after that incident of her asking Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi Wassalaam to allow her to go for jihad and was declined and told to stay in her house for she will be blessed with martyrdom by Allaah Azza Wa Jall, she believed and obeyed. Umm Waraqah Radiyallahu Anha stayed in her house and devoted her time to her scripts [surahs of the Qur'aan were written], reciting their verses with humbleness and piety. With the passing of each day, she increases in her closeness to Allaah Azza wa jall in her piety. She asked for a mu'adhhin for her house one day, and the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wassalaam gave her one, and she allocated a section of her big house as a praying area, and she would make this place a place for halaqa and she would lead some Muslim women of her family and her female relatives or whomsoever who came to meet her in her house for prayers. Umm Waraqah was not married, despite her nobility, wealth and everything she had, for she was deeply influenced by the picture of the bliss of Paradise that never changes or comes to an end, but she had one housemaid and one male servant who served her in her big house, but these two were not different to her, she treated them like a mother would treat her children. She used to sleep every little in the night, despite her old age and in hours of darkness she would seek Allaah's forgiveness and worship Him in humbleness, and every night she would pray and recite the Qur'aan unceasingly. One night, a caller called, "Come to martyrdom, O' Umm Waraqah! The time has come and your appointment with death is here! The earth is confined for you in spite of its vastness! What is with Allah is best and lasting! You certainly have nearness to Allah and good place of return!" On that very night, her servant and the maid stood up and strangled Umm Waraqah to death, they then wrapped her in a piece of cloth and put her at a side of the house and fled. 'Umar Radiyallahu Anhu, who was the Ameer ul Mu'mineen of that time, woke up for Fajr and observed something that attracted his attention, when he finished praying he went out and told the people, "By Allaah I did not hear the recitation of my aunty Umm Waraqah last night!" It was by this that He came to her house in the company of some other Sahabah Radiyallahu Anhum to see what has happened to Umm Waraqah. When they entered, they found no one and they did not hear any movement. It was then that 'Umar sensed that something happened to her! And suddenly they found her wrapped in a piece of cloth, dead. 'Umar Radiyallahu Anhu then said, "Allah and His Messenger said the truth!" and those who were with him echoed, "Allah and His Messenger said the truth!" ____ Subhan'Allaah! Did she die in vain? No she didn't! For Paradise was her abode! What a beautiful and inspiring woman was Umm Waraqah! We pray to Allaah Azza Wa Jall that she accepts her and raises her status in Jannah! Amin So many beautiful points to consider in this story, her love for Allaah Azza Wa Jall, her obedience towards the Messenger of Allaah Sallallahu Alaihi Wassalaam, her devotion to the Qur'aan, her dawah to other women and her kind treatment to her servants. So much beautiful characters had Umm Waraqah bagged in her life! Ma sha Allaah, and her devotion to the Qur'aan was of great dedication, imagine, 'Umar Radiyallahu Anhu noticed immediately something wrong when he didn't hear the recitation of Umm Waraqah, so realize that she has been consistently doing this recitation every night,when some of us can't even stand even listening to 3 minutes of recitation of the Qur'aan! Wallahi, my brothers and sisters in Islam, these are the kind of people that we should be inspired from, people we should take our deen from, martyrdom isn't just about going to battles, for we ourselves are already in jihad with our nafs. I ask you all, to please mention the name of Umm Waraqah in your du'as in your next salaah, may Allaah Azza Wa Jall be truly pleased with her. Amin -Umm Umar Khaled _____ Excerpt from Women around the messenger of Allah, pp. 194-199

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The story of Umm Salamah

Umm Salamah’s du’a is also narrated in Muslim: “Umm Salamah (May Allah be pleased with her) reported: I heard the Messenger of Allah (Allah bless him and grant him peace) saying, “When a person suffers from a calamity and utters: `Inna lillahi wa inna ilaihi raji`un. Allahumma ujurni fi musibati, wakhluf li khairan minha (We belong to Allah and to Him we shall return. O Allah! Compensate me in my affliction, recompense my loss and give me something better in exchange for it), then Allah surely compensates him with reward and better substitute.” Umm Salamah (ra) said: When Abu Salamah (ra) died, I repeated the same supplication as the Messenger of Allah (Allah bless him and grant him peace) had commanded me (to do), so Allah bestowed upon me a better substitute than him [Sahih Muslim].

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African Sahābiah’s anxiety on modesty

Once there was an African woman, a Sahābiah, who met the Messenger of Allah ﷺ and said; "O Muhammad ﷺ, I have a sickness where I suffer from seizure, and I'd like you to pray for me because when I suffer the seizure and I don't know what's happening and part of my body shows."

Muhammad ﷺ then answered her; "If you want, you bear patience and in return Allah gives you Jannah and if you want I can pray for you and you will be cured." Such was the dilemma on the Sahābiah, yet she chose to say; " O Muhammad ﷺ , I choose Paradise! but ask Allāh for me that when I am suffering from the seizure part of my body is exposed that must not happen." Such was the Sahābiah's anxiety that in such condition she needed to cover herself, that she still thinks of her modesty.  She was a true example of modest muslim woman, who defined herself through piety and modesty through words and actions.  These were the women during the lifetime of Muhammad ﷺ , how much of us, Muslim women, can be of such when nowadays when we see something on the television which represents  "beauty" we get all excited and the last thing we'll be concerned was if it was displeasing Allāh. Astagfirullāh. May we emanate such women during the lifetime of Muhammad ﷺ. Amin Lecture by Mufti Ismail bin Musa Menk