1 00:00:01,360 --> 00:00:12,179 Pause and reflect on the Companions, the scholars, and the prominent figures. 2 00:00:12,179 --> 00:00:16,179 A new challenge: Who am I? 3 00:00:16,179 --> 00:00:22,350 I am one of the daughters of the Prophet, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him. 4 00:00:22,350 --> 00:00:25,449 I was the person most beloved to him. 5 00:00:25,449 --> 00:00:31,449 In my speech and my gait, I was the person who most resembled my father, the Messenger of Allah, peace be upon him. 6 00:00:31,449 --> 00:00:34,539 Whenever I entered upon him, 7 00:00:34,539 --> 00:00:39,539 he would stand up for me, welcome me, and kiss me between my eyes. 8 00:00:39,539 --> 00:00:43,539 I would do the same for him whenever he came to me. 9 00:00:43,539 --> 00:00:47,670 I am the mistress of the women of Paradise. 10 00:00:47,670 --> 00:00:49,670 I was given the title al-Zahra. 11 00:00:49,670 --> 00:00:53,670 My husband is Ali Ibn Abi Talib, may Allah be pleased with him. 12 00:00:53,670 --> 00:00:55,670 The Rightly-Guided Caliph. 13 00:00:55,670 --> 00:01:00,670 Our sons are al-Hasan and al-Husayn, may Allah be pleased with them both. 14 00:01:00,670 --> 00:01:03,670 The masters of the youth of Paradise. 15 00:01:03,670 --> 00:01:08,790 When my husband intended to marry the daughter of Abu Jahl, 16 00:01:08,790 --> 00:01:12,790 the Prophet, peace be upon him, became angry on my behalf. 17 00:01:12,790 --> 00:01:13,790 He said, 18 00:01:13,790 --> 00:01:18,790 "By Allah, the daughter of the Prophet of Allah and the daughter of the enemy of Allah shall not be joined together." 19 00:01:18,790 --> 00:01:21,790 "For my daughter is a part of me." 20 00:01:21,790 --> 00:01:23,790 "What troubles her troubles me." 21 00:01:23,790 --> 00:01:26,790 "And what harms her harms me." 22 00:01:26,790 --> 00:01:30,819 So my husband abandoned the proposal out of consideration for me. 23 00:01:30,819 --> 00:01:34,819 And Ali did not marry anyone else until I had passed away. 24 00:01:34,819 --> 00:01:39,819 When my father’s death approached, I came to him. 25 00:01:39,819 --> 00:01:41,819 He seated me beside him. 26 00:01:41,819 --> 00:01:43,819 Then he whispered to me. 27 00:01:43,819 --> 00:01:45,819 So I wept. 28 00:01:45,819 --> 00:01:47,819 Then he whispered to me a second time. 29 00:01:47,819 --> 00:01:49,819 So I laughed. 30 00:01:49,819 --> 00:01:52,819 Aisha, may Allah be pleased with her, said to me, 31 00:01:52,819 --> 00:01:56,819 "The Messenger of Allah singled you out with a secret, and you wept." 32 00:01:56,819 --> 00:01:59,879 "Then he whispered to you, and you laughed." 33 00:01:59,879 --> 00:02:02,879 "I adjure you by the right I have over you," 34 00:02:02,879 --> 00:02:07,879 "to tell me why you laughed and why you wept." 35 00:02:07,879 --> 00:02:09,879 I said to her, 36 00:02:09,879 --> 00:02:14,979 "I would not disclose the secret of the Messenger of Allah, peace be upon him." 37 00:02:14,979 --> 00:02:16,979 When he passed away, 38 00:02:16,979 --> 00:02:18,979 she said to me, 39 00:02:18,979 --> 00:02:21,979 "I adjure you by the right I have over you," 40 00:02:21,979 --> 00:02:23,979 "to tell me." 41 00:02:23,979 --> 00:02:25,979 I said, 42 00:02:25,979 --> 00:02:27,979 "As for now, yes." 43 00:02:27,979 --> 00:02:31,099 "When he whispered to me the first time," 44 00:02:31,099 --> 00:02:35,099 "he told me that he would die in this illness of his." 45 00:02:35,099 --> 00:02:37,099 "So I wept." 46 00:02:37,099 --> 00:02:40,099 "Then he whispered to me the second time and said," 47 00:02:40,099 --> 00:02:44,099 "That I am the mistress of the women of this Ummah." 48 00:02:44,099 --> 00:02:47,099 "And that I would be the first of his family to join him." 49 00:02:47,099 --> 00:02:49,099 "So I laughed." 50 00:02:49,099 --> 00:02:54,620 I remained after the death of my father, peace be upon him, for six months. 51 00:02:54,620 --> 00:02:57,620 I was wasting away with grief for him. 52 00:02:57,620 --> 00:02:59,780 Then, when death approached me, 53 00:02:59,780 --> 00:03:01,780 I said, 54 00:03:01,780 --> 00:03:05,780 "I find it unsightly what is done to women at funerals." 55 00:03:05,780 --> 00:03:07,780 "A cloth is thrown over the woman," 56 00:03:07,780 --> 00:03:09,780 "which reveals her shape." 57 00:03:09,780 --> 00:03:11,870 A woman said to me, 58 00:03:11,870 --> 00:03:13,870 "O daughter of the Messenger of Allah," 59 00:03:13,870 --> 00:03:17,870 "shall I show you something I saw in Abyssinia?" 60 00:03:17,870 --> 00:03:19,900 She called for some fresh palm fronds. 61 00:03:19,900 --> 00:03:21,900 She bent them. 62 00:03:21,900 --> 00:03:23,900 She placed them over the bier. 63 00:03:23,900 --> 00:03:26,900 Then she threw a cloth over them. 64 00:03:26,900 --> 00:03:29,900 I liked that, and I requested it in my will. 65 00:03:29,900 --> 00:03:35,900 So I was the first person in Islam whose bier was covered in that manner. 66 00:03:35,900 --> 00:03:38,349 So, who am I? 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