Part of Who am I?
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Learn about the companions, scholars, and notables | Who am I? | Episode No. (51)
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Pause and reflect upon the lives of the Companions, the scholars, and the noble legacy.
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A new challenge: who am I?
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I am the daughter of the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him.
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My mother is Khadija, may Allah be pleased with her.
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I was born when my father, peace be upon him, was thirty-three years old.
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I embraced Islam alongside my mother when I was seven years old.
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I was known for my great beauty and was called the woman of the two migrations.
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For I migrated to Abyssinia and then to Medina.
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My father, peace be upon him, married me off before his mission began.
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To his cousin, Abu 'Utba ibn Abi Lahab.
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But when Allah the Exalted revealed His words:
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"May the hands of Abu Lahab be ruined, and ruined is he,"
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Abu Lahab said to his son, "My head is forbidden to your head,"
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"Unless you divorce the daughter of Muhammad."
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So he separated from me before the marriage was ever consummated.
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It was an honor from Allah the Exalted to His Messenger that a polytheist should not be intimate with his daughter.
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Then 'Uthman ibn 'Affan, may Allah be pleased with him, proposed to me.
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My father married me to him by the command of Allah the Exalted.
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I migrated with him to Abyssinia on a difficult journey.
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There, I suffered a miscarriage while married to 'Uthman.
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Later, I bore him a son whom we named 'Abdullah.
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When he reached the age of six, a rooster pecked him in the eye.
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His face swelled, he fell ill, and then he passed away.
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In the second year of the Hijra, I was struck by a severe fever.
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This was at the time when Allah the Almighty decreed the Battle of Badr.
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The Prophet, peace be upon him, and the Muslims set out.
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The Prophet, peace be upon him, commanded my husband 'Uthman,
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To remain by my side to nurse me and care for me.
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He granted him a share of the spoils of war.
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His reward with Allah is like that of one who attended the battle.
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No sooner had the bearer of glad tidings reached Medina with the news of the Muslim victory at Badr,
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Than he saw the people of Medina leveling the earth over my grave.
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For my time had come, and I was twenty-two years old.
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When my father, peace be upon him, returned from the battle,
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And learned of my death, he went out to the Baqi' al-Gharqad.
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He stood by my grave, praying for mercy and forgiveness for me.
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So, who am I?
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They were here, watering the clouds of our lives.
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Even after they passed, their memory remains exalted among us.
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They departed, leaving a question in the conscience:
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Is there any star like them that has risen and shone?
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They filled life with pride through their deeds.
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And the world of the people flourished because of them.