1 00:00:00,460 --> 00:00:03,459 Pause, 2 00:00:03,459 --> 00:00:08,460 and get to know the Companions, the scholars, and the foremost figures! 3 00:00:12,460 --> 00:00:16,460 A new challenge: Who am I? 4 00:00:16,460 --> 00:00:25,079 I am the daughter of the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) and a part of him, 5 00:00:25,079 --> 00:00:29,079 and the quickest of his family to join him after his passing. 6 00:00:29,079 --> 00:00:33,270 I am the leader of the women of Paradise and the mother of the two grandsons, 7 00:00:33,270 --> 00:00:36,270 and the wife of the valiant Caliph. 8 00:00:36,270 --> 00:00:42,340 I was born into Islam after the commissioning of my father (peace be upon him) as a prophet, 9 00:00:42,340 --> 00:00:45,340 and I entered the mountain pass with him during the boycott, 10 00:00:45,340 --> 00:00:50,340 witnessing firsthand some of the hardships my father endured for the sake of the call. 11 00:00:50,340 --> 00:00:58,100 I resembled my father (peace be upon him) most closely in demeanor, guidance, and conduct. 12 00:00:58,100 --> 00:01:02,140 Whenever I entered upon him, he would stand up for me, 13 00:01:02,140 --> 00:01:08,200 take my hand, kiss me, and seat me in his own place. 14 00:01:08,200 --> 00:01:13,200 And whenever he entered upon me, I would stand up for him, take his hand, 15 00:01:13,200 --> 00:01:17,200 kiss him, and seat him in my place. 16 00:01:17,200 --> 00:01:22,030 I was given the agnomen "the mother of her father." 17 00:01:22,030 --> 00:01:28,030 One day, while my father (peace be upon him) was praying near the Ka'bah, 18 00:01:28,030 --> 00:01:31,030 'Uqbah Ibn Abi Mu'ayt approached, 19 00:01:31,030 --> 00:01:35,030 carrying the abdominal contents and fetal sac of a camel slaughtered the day before. 20 00:01:35,030 --> 00:01:41,030 When my father prostrated, that wretched man placed that filth between his shoulders. 21 00:01:41,030 --> 00:01:44,030 The polytheists burst into laughter, 22 00:01:44,030 --> 00:01:47,030 leaning against one another in mockery, 23 00:01:47,030 --> 00:01:50,030 while my father remained prostrated, unable to raise his head. 24 00:01:50,030 --> 00:01:55,099 News of this reached me, so I came running as a young girl, 25 00:01:55,099 --> 00:01:57,099 and threw the filth off him, 26 00:01:57,099 --> 00:02:01,099 then turned upon them, rebuking and denouncing them. 27 00:02:01,099 --> 00:02:07,120 I lived my married life in severe hardship and weariness, 28 00:02:07,120 --> 00:02:10,120 for we had no servant. 29 00:02:10,120 --> 00:02:13,120 When news reached me that captives had been brought to my father, 30 00:02:13,120 --> 00:02:18,120 I went to him to complain of the sores the hand-mill caused to my hands, 31 00:02:18,120 --> 00:02:20,120 and to ask him for a servant. 32 00:02:20,120 --> 00:02:24,150 But he directed me to what was far better for me than a servant: 33 00:02:24,150 --> 00:02:30,150 he directed me to glorify, praise, and magnify Allah before sleeping. 34 00:02:30,150 --> 00:02:33,919 I was chaste and extraordinarily modest. 35 00:02:33,919 --> 00:02:37,020 When death approached me, 36 00:02:37,020 --> 00:02:41,020 I said to Asma' bint 'Umays (may Allah be pleased with her): 37 00:02:41,020 --> 00:02:45,020 "I truly despise what is done with women's biers, 38 00:02:45,020 --> 00:02:49,020 where a mere cloth is thrown over a deceased woman on her bier, 39 00:02:49,020 --> 00:02:51,020 outlining the shape of her body." 40 00:02:51,020 --> 00:02:54,080 So Asma' (may Allah be pleased with her) said to me: 41 00:02:54,080 --> 00:02:58,080 "Shall I not show you something I saw in Abyssinia?" 42 00:02:58,080 --> 00:03:01,080 I replied, "Yes, indeed." 43 00:03:01,080 --> 00:03:04,080 She then called for fresh palm branches and bent them into an arched frame, 44 00:03:04,080 --> 00:03:07,080 and draped a cloth over it, 45 00:03:07,080 --> 00:03:11,080 creating a complete cover that revealed no bodily contours. 46 00:03:11,080 --> 00:03:15,080 I said: "How splendid and beautiful this is! 47 00:03:15,080 --> 00:03:20,180 When I die, let only you and my husband wash me, 48 00:03:20,180 --> 00:03:24,180 and let no one else enter upon me; 49 00:03:24,180 --> 00:03:28,180 then shroud me and place these branches 50 00:03:28,180 --> 00:03:31,180 over my bier." And they did so. 51 00:03:31,180 --> 00:03:35,180 Thus, I was the first woman in Islam whose bier was covered 52 00:03:35,180 --> 00:03:40,180 in this manner, as the biers of women are covered today. 53 00:03:40,180 --> 00:03:43,810 So, who am I? 54 00:03:52,060 --> 00:03:56,060 The answer will be given in the next episode, if Allah wills. 55 00:03:56,060 --> 00:04:02,060 The best of generations in deeds and in example, 56 00:04:02,060 --> 00:04:07,060 following the Messenger in whatever he strove for or said. 57 00:04:07,060 --> 00:04:12,060 They were here, showering our lives like rain clouds, 58 00:04:12,060 --> 00:04:17,060 and among us, their remembrance ever ascends. 59 00:04:17,060 --> 00:04:22,060 They departed, leaving in the conscience a question: 60 00:04:22,060 --> 00:04:27,060 Has any star ever risen and shone brightly like them? 61 00:04:27,060 --> 00:04:32,060 They filled this life with glories through their deeds, 62 00:04:32,060 --> 00:04:37,060 and the world of mankind flourished through their grace.