     TLG | Thursday, March 08, 2001 - 07:29 am
Asalaamu alaikum all, this is an excellent Khutbah for women... please read and passs it on.
salaams,
TLG
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
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! |
