Part of Who am I?
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Learn about the companions, scholars, and notables | Who am I? | Episode No. (89)
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Stop.
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Get to know the Companions, the scholars, and the most exalted.
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A serious challenge: who am I?
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I am the eldest daughter of the Prophet, 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 ten years before the Prophetic mission.
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I was known as the "Lady of the Necklace."
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My father, may Allah bless him and grant him peace,
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loved me and praised me.
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He married me to my cousin, Abu al-'As ibn al-Rabi', may Allah be pleased with him.
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I lived with him in happiness.
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When my father, peace be upon him, was sent as a Prophet,
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I hastened to believe in him.
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But my husband refused Islam.
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The Quraysh began urging my husband to divorce me,
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offering to replace me with a wife from the noble houses of Quraysh.
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He would reply to them, saying:
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"No, by Allah!
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I will not part with my wife.
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I would not trade my wife for
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any woman from Quraysh."
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When the day of Badr came,
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my husband went out to fight the Muslims,
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and he was taken prisoner by them.
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I sent for his ransom the necklace that my mother, Khadija, may Allah be pleased with her, had gifted me on my wedding day.
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When the Prophet, peace be upon him, saw it,
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he felt compassion for me,
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and he interceded for my husband to be released without ransom,
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and the necklace was returned to me.
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He asked my husband to send me to him in Medina.
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When my husband returned to Mecca,
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he ordered me to prepare to join my father.
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He asked his brother, Kinana, to escort me part of the way,
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where I would meet some of the Companions
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who would take me to Medina.
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Kinana took his bow and arrows,
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and he took me out in broad daylight,
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in the sight and hearing of the Quraysh.
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The people were enraged and pursued us.
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They terrified me in my howdah until it fell,
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and I suffered a miscarriage.
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At that, Kinana scattered his arrows,
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and swore that no one should approach me
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without him striking them with an arrow in the throat,
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and he never missed his mark.
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The people retreated.
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Then Abu Sufyan came
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and said to Kinana,
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"Take her back to Mecca,
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then take her out at night in secret,
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so that people do not say that she
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left against the will of the people of Mecca."
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Kinana did so.
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When night fell, he took me out
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and handed me over to Zayd ibn Haritha
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and another man,
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whom my father, peace be upon him,
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had sent to escort me to Medina.
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My husband later embraced Islam
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six years after that,
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and he migrated to Medina.
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The Prophet, peace be upon him, returned me
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to him under the original marriage contract.
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I remained with him,
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though the illness from the fall I suffered
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during my migration from Mecca
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never left me,
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until my time came
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in the eighth year of the Hijra.
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The Mothers of the Believers washed my body,
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and my father, peace be upon him, gave them
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his lower garment and said,
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"Shroud her in it,"
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meaning, place it directly against her body,
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underneath the shroud.
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Then my father, peace be upon him, led my funeral prayer,
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and he and my husband descended into my grave.
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So, who am I?
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In the comments,
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when the next episode is released,
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if Allah wills.
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The best of generations,
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in their stances and examples.
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They followed the Messenger,
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in all he strove for or said.
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They were here,
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watering the clouds of our lives.
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They led us,
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their memory rising high.
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They departed and cast
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a question into our conscience:
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Is there a star like them that rose and shone?
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They filled life
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with the glory of their deeds,
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and the world of the self flourished because of them.