WEBVTT 00:00:00.460 --> 00:00:03.459 Pause, 00:00:03.459 --> 00:00:08.460 and get to know the Companions, the scholars, and the foremost figures! 00:00:12.460 --> 00:00:16.460 A new challenge: Who am I? 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, 00:00:25.079 --> 00:00:29.079 and the quickest of his family to join him after his passing. 00:00:29.079 --> 00:00:33.270 I am the leader of the women of Paradise and the mother of the two grandsons, 00:00:33.270 --> 00:00:36.270 and the wife of the valiant Caliph. 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, 00:00:42.340 --> 00:00:45.340 and I entered the mountain pass with him during the boycott, 00:00:45.340 --> 00:00:50.340 witnessing firsthand some of the hardships my father endured for the sake of the call. 00:00:50.340 --> 00:00:58.100 I resembled my father (peace be upon him) most closely in demeanor, guidance, and conduct. 00:00:58.100 --> 00:01:02.140 Whenever I entered upon him, he would stand up for me, 00:01:02.140 --> 00:01:08.200 take my hand, kiss me, and seat me in his own place. 00:01:08.200 --> 00:01:13.200 And whenever he entered upon me, I would stand up for him, take his hand, 00:01:13.200 --> 00:01:17.200 kiss him, and seat him in my place. 00:01:17.200 --> 00:01:22.030 I was given the agnomen "the mother of her father." 00:01:22.030 --> 00:01:28.030 One day, while my father (peace be upon him) was praying near the Ka'bah, 00:01:28.030 --> 00:01:31.030 'Uqbah Ibn Abi Mu'ayt approached, 00:01:31.030 --> 00:01:35.030 carrying the abdominal contents and fetal sac of a camel slaughtered the day before. 00:01:35.030 --> 00:01:41.030 When my father prostrated, that wretched man placed that filth between his shoulders. 00:01:41.030 --> 00:01:44.030 The polytheists burst into laughter, 00:01:44.030 --> 00:01:47.030 leaning against one another in mockery, 00:01:47.030 --> 00:01:50.030 while my father remained prostrated, unable to raise his head. 00:01:50.030 --> 00:01:55.099 News of this reached me, so I came running as a young girl, 00:01:55.099 --> 00:01:57.099 and threw the filth off him, 00:01:57.099 --> 00:02:01.099 then turned upon them, rebuking and denouncing them. 00:02:01.099 --> 00:02:07.120 I lived my married life in severe hardship and weariness, 00:02:07.120 --> 00:02:10.120 for we had no servant. 00:02:10.120 --> 00:02:13.120 When news reached me that captives had been brought to my father, 00:02:13.120 --> 00:02:18.120 I went to him to complain of the sores the hand-mill caused to my hands, 00:02:18.120 --> 00:02:20.120 and to ask him for a servant. 00:02:20.120 --> 00:02:24.150 But he directed me to what was far better for me than a servant: 00:02:24.150 --> 00:02:30.150 he directed me to glorify, praise, and magnify Allah before sleeping. 00:02:30.150 --> 00:02:33.919 I was chaste and extraordinarily modest. 00:02:33.919 --> 00:02:37.020 When death approached me, 00:02:37.020 --> 00:02:41.020 I said to Asma' bint 'Umays (may Allah be pleased with her): 00:02:41.020 --> 00:02:45.020 "I truly despise what is done with women's biers, 00:02:45.020 --> 00:02:49.020 where a mere cloth is thrown over a deceased woman on her bier, 00:02:49.020 --> 00:02:51.020 outlining the shape of her body." 00:02:51.020 --> 00:02:54.080 So Asma' (may Allah be pleased with her) said to me: 00:02:54.080 --> 00:02:58.080 "Shall I not show you something I saw in Abyssinia?" 00:02:58.080 --> 00:03:01.080 I replied, "Yes, indeed." 00:03:01.080 --> 00:03:04.080 She then called for fresh palm branches and bent them into an arched frame, 00:03:04.080 --> 00:03:07.080 and draped a cloth over it, 00:03:07.080 --> 00:03:11.080 creating a complete cover that revealed no bodily contours. 00:03:11.080 --> 00:03:15.080 I said: "How splendid and beautiful this is! 00:03:15.080 --> 00:03:20.180 When I die, let only you and my husband wash me, 00:03:20.180 --> 00:03:24.180 and let no one else enter upon me; 00:03:24.180 --> 00:03:28.180 then shroud me and place these branches 00:03:28.180 --> 00:03:31.180 over my bier." And they did so. 00:03:31.180 --> 00:03:35.180 Thus, I was the first woman in Islam whose bier was covered 00:03:35.180 --> 00:03:40.180 in this manner, as the biers of women are covered today. 00:03:40.180 --> 00:03:43.810 So, who am I? 00:03:52.060 --> 00:03:56.060 The answer will be given in the next episode, if Allah wills. 00:03:56.060 --> 00:04:02.060 The best of generations in deeds and in example, 00:04:02.060 --> 00:04:07.060 following the Messenger in whatever he strove for or said. 00:04:07.060 --> 00:04:12.060 They were here, showering our lives like rain clouds, 00:04:12.060 --> 00:04:17.060 and among us, their remembrance ever ascends. 00:04:17.060 --> 00:04:22.060 They departed, leaving in the conscience a question: 00:04:22.060 --> 00:04:27.060 Has any star ever risen and shone brightly like them? 00:04:27.060 --> 00:04:32.060 They filled this life with glories through their deeds, 00:04:32.060 --> 00:04:37.060 and the world of mankind flourished through their grace.