How A Pearl Protects Itself: A Khutbah for our Muslim
Women
(Khutbah by Brother Muhammad Alshareef)
Assalamualaikum Warahmatullahi Wabarakatuhoo.
In the Name of Almighty Allah Most Gracious, Most Merciful
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 inspiring 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).
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, verses 8 and 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 taqaddasat asmaa'uhu because
that it how she lived and died.
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]
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!
Was Salamualaykum Warahmatullahi Wabarakatuhu.
(Khutbah by Brother Muhammad Alshareef)
