1 00:00:00,460 --> 00:00:08,460 Pause and reflect upon the lives of the Companions, the scholars, and the noble legacy. 2 00:00:12,460 --> 00:00:16,460 A new challenge: who am I? 3 00:00:16,460 --> 00:00:23,890 I am the daughter of the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him. 4 00:00:23,890 --> 00:00:27,980 My mother is Khadija, may Allah be pleased with her. 5 00:00:27,980 --> 00:00:33,979 I was born when my father, peace be upon him, was thirty-three years old. 6 00:00:33,979 --> 00:00:38,020 I embraced Islam alongside my mother when I was seven years old. 7 00:00:38,020 --> 00:00:43,020 I was known for my great beauty and was called the woman of the two migrations. 8 00:00:43,020 --> 00:00:48,850 For I migrated to Abyssinia and then to Medina. 9 00:00:48,850 --> 00:00:52,850 My father, peace be upon him, married me off before his mission began. 10 00:00:52,850 --> 00:00:57,039 To his cousin, Abu 'Utba ibn Abi Lahab. 11 00:00:57,039 --> 00:01:00,039 But when Allah the Exalted revealed His words: 12 00:01:00,039 --> 00:01:04,040 "May the hands of Abu Lahab be ruined, and ruined is he," 13 00:01:04,040 --> 00:01:09,040 Abu Lahab said to his son, "My head is forbidden to your head," 14 00:01:09,040 --> 00:01:12,040 "Unless you divorce the daughter of Muhammad." 15 00:01:12,040 --> 00:01:15,040 So he separated from me before the marriage was ever consummated. 16 00:01:15,040 --> 00:01:21,200 It was an honor from Allah the Exalted to His Messenger that a polytheist should not be intimate with his daughter. 17 00:01:21,200 --> 00:01:25,200 Then 'Uthman ibn 'Affan, may Allah be pleased with him, proposed to me. 18 00:01:25,200 --> 00:01:29,200 My father married me to him by the command of Allah the Exalted. 19 00:01:29,200 --> 00:01:34,200 I migrated with him to Abyssinia on a difficult journey. 20 00:01:34,200 --> 00:01:38,230 There, I suffered a miscarriage while married to 'Uthman. 21 00:01:38,230 --> 00:01:42,230 Later, I bore him a son whom we named 'Abdullah. 22 00:01:42,230 --> 00:01:47,230 When he reached the age of six, a rooster pecked him in the eye. 23 00:01:47,230 --> 00:01:52,739 His face swelled, he fell ill, and then he passed away. 24 00:01:52,739 --> 00:01:57,739 In the second year of the Hijra, I was struck by a severe fever. 25 00:01:57,739 --> 00:02:02,739 This was at the time when Allah the Almighty decreed the Battle of Badr. 26 00:02:02,739 --> 00:02:07,810 The Prophet, peace be upon him, and the Muslims set out. 27 00:02:07,810 --> 00:02:11,810 The Prophet, peace be upon him, commanded my husband 'Uthman, 28 00:02:11,810 --> 00:02:16,810 To remain by my side to nurse me and care for me. 29 00:02:16,810 --> 00:02:19,810 He granted him a share of the spoils of war. 30 00:02:19,810 --> 00:02:24,189 His reward with Allah is like that of one who attended the battle. 31 00:02:24,189 --> 00:02:29,189 No sooner had the bearer of glad tidings reached Medina with the news of the Muslim victory at Badr, 32 00:02:29,189 --> 00:02:35,189 Than he saw the people of Medina leveling the earth over my grave. 33 00:02:35,189 --> 00:02:40,449 For my time had come, and I was twenty-two years old. 34 00:02:40,449 --> 00:02:44,449 When my father, peace be upon him, returned from the battle, 35 00:02:44,449 --> 00:02:49,449 And learned of my death, he went out to the Baqi' al-Gharqad. 36 00:02:49,449 --> 00:02:54,449 He stood by my grave, praying for mercy and forgiveness for me. 37 00:02:54,449 --> 00:02:56,900 So, who am I? 38 00:03:21,689 --> 00:03:26,689 They were here, watering the clouds of our lives. 39 00:03:26,689 --> 00:03:31,689 Even after they passed, their memory remains exalted among us. 40 00:03:31,689 --> 00:03:36,689 They departed, leaving a question in the conscience: 41 00:03:36,689 --> 00:03:41,689 Is there any star like them that has risen and shone? 42 00:03:41,689 --> 00:03:47,689 They filled life with pride through their deeds. 43 00:03:47,689 --> 00:03:51,689 And the world of the people flourished because of them.