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aliibnabitalib:

Who Was He?

He was ‘Āli ibn Abi Tālib ibn Abdul Muttalib, the son of the Prophet’s uncle, the banner of the rightly guided, the light of the obedient, the leader of the just, the heart of the insightful, the tongue of those who are inquisitive, the foremost of them in faith, the husband of Fatimah, the daughter of the Messenger of Allāh (ﷺ).

His Virtues

1. The Messenger of Allāh (ﷺ) said: “Whoever I am a patron to, ‘Āli is also his patron.”
2. Sa’id bin Abi Waqqas (رضي الله عنه) reported that the Prophet (ﷺ) said to ’Āli, “You are to me like Harūn was to Mūsā except that there will be no prophet after me.”
3. ‘Āli, may Allāh be pleased with him, said: “The Prophet (ﷺ), the unlettered, gave me a promise that: ‘No one will love you except a believer and no one will hate you except a hypocrite.’”
4. From Habashī bin Junādah said: “I heard the Prophet (ﷺ) say, “’Āli is from me and I am from him.”

And many more.

Before we present some of the scenes from his struggle, I say: Islām has indeed prescribed Jihād as a protection for the truth, rejection of any act of injustice, and suppression of aggression and to defeat the tyrant.

As for the fabrications and accusation of the Orientalists, the malice toward Islām from the other religions and the claim that it was the Muslims who first used force where there was no justification for it, those are all lies and part of the scheme to efface Islām from the Earth and make the Muslims slaves of the Crusaders and Zionists.

A time comes where fighting becomes obligatory and its followers and threatened to extinction and the hostile forces unite to wipe out Islām and the Muslims forever, fighting becomes the only alternative for survival. Such situations and circumstances had developed in the early days of Islām, before and after the Hijrah. The same situation developed again in recent times when the lands of Islām fell into the hands of the rogues of the earth, and the most devilish of politices have been drawn up to extinguish them little by little. How can the call to arms, therefore, be considered strange, and those who dedicate themselves to sacrifice in Allāh’s way be looked upon with disdain? How can the vocation of death be disapproved in a nation upon which butchers are pouncing from all quarters?

To be Continued.

[Source: Men and Women Around the Messenger by Sa’d Yusuf Abu ‘Aziz, p. 89-91]

aishabintabibakr:

The One Exonerated From Above the Heavens

She was one one of the daughters of the leader, the great truthful one, the vicegerent of Allah’s Messenger Abū Bakr ‘Abdullah bin Abi Quhāfah and she was from the Quraish tribe. The Mother of the Believers, wife of the Prophet, the most knowledgeable woman of the Muslim community without exception. Her mother was Umm Rumān bint Amir bin Uwaymir. Her parents migrated with her and Prophet of Allah married her before his hijrah after the death of Khadeejah bint Khuwaylid. That occurred about ten months before the hijrah. It is also said that the marriage occurred two years before the hijrah. He consummated the marriage with her in Shawwāl in the second year (of Hijrah) at his departure from the battle of Badr and at the that time she was nine years old. She reported from him a considerable amount of pure and blessed knowledge.

[Excerpt from: The Men and Women around the Messenger (ﷺ), p. 571]

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khadijahbintkhuwaylid:

‘Aishah, the Mother of the Believers (may Allah be pleased with her), related the event of the first Divine revelation the Prophet (peace be upon him) received, saying:

“The first of revelations that the Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him) received was good dreams. Whichever dream he (peace be upon him) saw came true, as clear as daylight. Then seclusion was endeared to him. He (peace be upon him) used to retire to the Cave of Hira’ and engage in Tahannuth for a certain number of nights, before returning to his family to take provision for the same purpose. He would return to Khadijah and replenish his provisions for a similar period until the truth came to him while he was in the Cave of Hira’. There came to him the Angel (Gabriel) who said, ‘Read!’ He (peace be upon him) said, ‘I am not a reader (i.e. I do not know how to read).’So, the Angel took me and embraced me powerfully until I was exhausted, he then released me and said, ‘Read.’ I said, ‘I am not a reader.’ He took me and embraced me powerfully for a second time until I was exhausted. He then released me and said, ‘Read.’ I said, ‘I am not a reader.’ He took me and embraced me powerfully for the third time. He then released me and said,  Read! In the Name of your Lord Who has created (all that exists).  He has created man from a clot (a piece of thick coagulated blood).  Read! And your Lord is the Most Generous. After receiving the Divine Revelation, the Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him) returned home to his wife Khadijah bint Khuwaylid (may Allah be pleased with her), his heart shivering. He (peace be upon him) said,

‘Cover me! Cover me!’ She covered him until his fear subsided. Then he told Khadijah what had happened and said, ‘I feared for myself.’

Khadijah said, ‘Never! By Allah, Allah will never disgrace you; you keep good relations with your kith and kin, speak the truth, support the poor, earn a living for the destitute, entertain your guests generously, and assist those who are stricken with calamities.’

Khadijah then accompanied him to her paternal cousin, Waraqah ibn Nawfal ibn Asad ibn ‘Abdul-‘Uzza. He embraced Christianity in Jahiliyyah (pre-Islamic time of ignorance), and used to write in Hebrew and write from the Gospel in Hebrew as much as Allah willed for him to write. He was an old man who had lost his eyesight.

Khadijah said, ‘O my cousin, listen to your nephew.’

Waraqah said to him, ‘O my nephew, what have you seen?’

The Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him) recounted to him what he had seen.

Waraqah said to him, ‘This is the same Namus (the Angel entrusted with Divine Secrets, i.e. Gabriel) whom Allah had sent to Musa (Moses). Would that I were young and could live until the time when your people will turn you out.’

The Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him) asked, ‘Will they turn me out?’ Waraqah replied,

‘Yes, never did a man come with the like of what you have come with but was treated with hostility. If I should live to see that day, I would support you strongly.’

Waraqah died a short while later and Divine Revelation ceased for a while.”

[Related in Sahih Al-Bukhari, Vol. 1 pp. 2-4]

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khadijahbintkhuwaylid:

She was the Mother of the Believers and the leader of the women of the worlds of her time. she was the mother of Qasim, the daughter of Khuwaylid bin Asad from the Quraishe tribe and from the Asad clan. Khadijah was the mother of six of the children of Allah’s Messenger, the first person to believe in and accept him before anyone else.

Imam Adh Dhahabi said:

“Her virtues were many indeed. She is one of the women who attained perfection. She was intelligent, honorable, devoted, virtuous and generous. She is from the people of Paradise. The Prophet (ﷺ) used to praise her above the rest of the Mothers of the Believers.”

From her honors is that the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) never married any other woman before her and begot her by some children and he did not marry any other woman with her (while she was alive). She was a good companion and she used to spend her wealth on him and he used to trade on her behalf.

[Excerpt from Men and Women Around the Messenger by Sa’d Yusuf Abu ‘Aziz, p. 511]

— ‘Aisha (رضي الله عنها) [Imam Muslim in the Introdution to his Sahih] (via aishabintabibakr)