WEBVTT 00:00:01.360 --> 00:00:12.179 Pause and reflect on the Companions, the scholars, and the prominent figures. 00:00:12.179 --> 00:00:16.179 A new challenge: Who am I? 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. 00:00:22.350 --> 00:00:25.449 I was the person most beloved to him. 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. 00:00:31.449 --> 00:00:34.539 Whenever I entered upon him, 00:00:34.539 --> 00:00:39.539 he would stand up for me, welcome me, and kiss me between my eyes. 00:00:39.539 --> 00:00:43.539 I would do the same for him whenever he came to me. 00:00:43.539 --> 00:00:47.670 I am the mistress of the women of Paradise. 00:00:47.670 --> 00:00:49.670 I was given the title al-Zahra. 00:00:49.670 --> 00:00:53.670 My husband is Ali Ibn Abi Talib, may Allah be pleased with him. 00:00:53.670 --> 00:00:55.670 The Rightly-Guided Caliph. 00:00:55.670 --> 00:01:00.670 Our sons are al-Hasan and al-Husayn, may Allah be pleased with them both. 00:01:00.670 --> 00:01:03.670 The masters of the youth of Paradise. 00:01:03.670 --> 00:01:08.790 When my husband intended to marry the daughter of Abu Jahl, 00:01:08.790 --> 00:01:12.790 the Prophet, peace be upon him, became angry on my behalf. 00:01:12.790 --> 00:01:13.790 He said, 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." 00:01:18.790 --> 00:01:21.790 "For my daughter is a part of me." 00:01:21.790 --> 00:01:23.790 "What troubles her troubles me." 00:01:23.790 --> 00:01:26.790 "And what harms her harms me." 00:01:26.790 --> 00:01:30.819 So my husband abandoned the proposal out of consideration for me. 00:01:30.819 --> 00:01:34.819 And Ali did not marry anyone else until I had passed away. 00:01:34.819 --> 00:01:39.819 When my father’s death approached, I came to him. 00:01:39.819 --> 00:01:41.819 He seated me beside him. 00:01:41.819 --> 00:01:43.819 Then he whispered to me. 00:01:43.819 --> 00:01:45.819 So I wept. 00:01:45.819 --> 00:01:47.819 Then he whispered to me a second time. 00:01:47.819 --> 00:01:49.819 So I laughed. 00:01:49.819 --> 00:01:52.819 Aisha, may Allah be pleased with her, said to me, 00:01:52.819 --> 00:01:56.819 "The Messenger of Allah singled you out with a secret, and you wept." 00:01:56.819 --> 00:01:59.879 "Then he whispered to you, and you laughed." 00:01:59.879 --> 00:02:02.879 "I adjure you by the right I have over you," 00:02:02.879 --> 00:02:07.879 "to tell me why you laughed and why you wept." 00:02:07.879 --> 00:02:09.879 I said to her, 00:02:09.879 --> 00:02:14.979 "I would not disclose the secret of the Messenger of Allah, peace be upon him." 00:02:14.979 --> 00:02:16.979 When he passed away, 00:02:16.979 --> 00:02:18.979 she said to me, 00:02:18.979 --> 00:02:21.979 "I adjure you by the right I have over you," 00:02:21.979 --> 00:02:23.979 "to tell me." 00:02:23.979 --> 00:02:25.979 I said, 00:02:25.979 --> 00:02:27.979 "As for now, yes." 00:02:27.979 --> 00:02:31.099 "When he whispered to me the first time," 00:02:31.099 --> 00:02:35.099 "he told me that he would die in this illness of his." 00:02:35.099 --> 00:02:37.099 "So I wept." 00:02:37.099 --> 00:02:40.099 "Then he whispered to me the second time and said," 00:02:40.099 --> 00:02:44.099 "That I am the mistress of the women of this Ummah." 00:02:44.099 --> 00:02:47.099 "And that I would be the first of his family to join him." 00:02:47.099 --> 00:02:49.099 "So I laughed." 00:02:49.099 --> 00:02:54.620 I remained after the death of my father, peace be upon him, for six months. 00:02:54.620 --> 00:02:57.620 I was wasting away with grief for him. 00:02:57.620 --> 00:02:59.780 Then, when death approached me, 00:02:59.780 --> 00:03:01.780 I said, 00:03:01.780 --> 00:03:05.780 "I find it unsightly what is done to women at funerals." 00:03:05.780 --> 00:03:07.780 "A cloth is thrown over the woman," 00:03:07.780 --> 00:03:09.780 "which reveals her shape." 00:03:09.780 --> 00:03:11.870 A woman said to me, 00:03:11.870 --> 00:03:13.870 "O daughter of the Messenger of Allah," 00:03:13.870 --> 00:03:17.870 "shall I show you something I saw in Abyssinia?" 00:03:17.870 --> 00:03:19.900 She called for some fresh palm fronds. 00:03:19.900 --> 00:03:21.900 She bent them. 00:03:21.900 --> 00:03:23.900 She placed them over the bier. 00:03:23.900 --> 00:03:26.900 Then she threw a cloth over them. 00:03:26.900 --> 00:03:29.900 I liked that, and I requested it in my will. 00:03:29.900 --> 00:03:35.900 So I was the first person in Islam whose bier was covered in that manner. 00:03:35.900 --> 00:03:38.349 So, who am I? 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