 And in this period of time, she has this discussion with Waraqah because she hears from him constantly because he keeps on saying this message over and over. There is a prophet to come and he's eminent. It's happening. It's in the Torah. It's in the Gospel. It is happening. It is coming. So she's hearing this very regularly. And one night she has a dream. She doesn't know what the dream means, but she's just like her father's dream. She's just so happy when she wakes up and doesn't know what to make of it. So she goes to Waraqah to ask, what does this dream mean? And here's how the dream goes. She sees that there's a star in the sky and it separates from the rest of the stars and falls into her lap, literally. And it enters into her chest and comes out into her arms. And then after that, it ascends and the entire sky is drenched in light. It's this beautiful dream. And she wakes up happy and just excited about it but doesn't know what this means. And so she goes to Waraqah and explains to him the dream and he says, the prophet has come. The prophet has come. This is about the prophet. And your home will be drenched in light. It'll have light enter into it. And she said, wonderful. But what does this have to do with me? And so he foretells, some narrations say that he actually tells her, you will marry the prophet. And in other narrations, we just know that, you know, he says to her that light is going to enter your home. Subhanallah. And so in this same period of time, she carries on with her business. And all of you know the story now, now you're going to connect the dots of where, what happens next. She has a caravan going to Damascus. She's in Mecca. There's a caravan going to Damascus and it's a far distance, three months of a journey. And she needs a very trustworthy person. Now the people of Quraish here, that Khadija, the wealthy woman, needs a very trustworthy person. So many people want to be this physician. She's going to pay them well. Now, in the same period of time, you know the rest of this part, right? Abu Talib, who is, who exactly is Abu Talib? The uncle of the prophet Muhammad, Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, who's taken in the prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, right? After, Abdul Mutalif has passed away. So now he's being raised in his uncle's home. He's a young man. He's a young man. And he's, and Abu Talib is actually not wealthy. And there are many mouths to feed. And so Abu Talib here is about Khadija's caravan. And so he says to Muhammad, Sayyidina Muhammad, Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, why don't you go and take that job? She'll pay well. And you are trustworthy. And she's looking for a trustworthy person. And the prophet's nickname was what? And Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, very good. And so he says, okay, but Yani, what would she really mean? Is Yani going to be the right fit? And so he says, absolutely. And look at how beautiful this is. They send an intermediary, the prophet's uncle, aunt, rather, to ask Satana Khadija, would this be the right fit? Now Satana Khadija surprised because she's been hearing about Muhammad, Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, as a very honorable and kind of trustworthy person. But she doesn't think he'd be very interested in this caravan, right? Because he's like very noble, like, you know, an orphan. Not well to do, but very honorable, right? And so when they come to have the business discussion about whether or not it should be the prophet, he can't even, he's so modest, he doesn't even look at her, look up at her, he had her face, right? He kind of is looking down while they're having this discussion. And she's very happy because she feels like if it'll be Muhammad taking my caravan over, then I won't be swindled. I won't be cheated, right? Like she's at the mercy of whoever's going to go take the caravan over. And so she decides and says to him, if you take the caravan, I'll give you not just the two camels that are, you know, guaranteed her, you know, that's how much she owes for this. I'll give you more. But it's not about that for the prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, right? It's because his uncle had asked him and said, you know, we need, we need some help here. Why don't you take this job? Anyhow, she's very excited because she notices things immediately about the prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. For example, she notices that honesty kind of right away. And she starts to wonder, you know, because she's been hearing from her, from Waraqah, you know, that there is a prophet eminent, but she doesn't know exactly who this is. But she asks Waraqah, tell me some descriptions about this person because you speak about them from everything you read in the gospel and the Torah as though you know what they look like and who they are. And so he says, sure, I'll tell you some characteristics. So this is what he tells her. He says, this person will never reciprocate evil with evil. He will not raise his voice. He is forgiving and he's very merciful. He rides donkeys and camels and he shepherds, you know, he's a shepherd and he milks sheep. He wears patches on his clothing. And he has a sign between his shoulder blades that's called the mark of the prophet, but all the other prophets had as well. And his name will be Ahmed. And so she has all of these different characteristics that she knows about him. And she realizes, wow, this is going to be, you know, it'd be amazing if she could possibly get to know who this person is. Well, in that same period of time, there's a rabbi. Now remember, the Jews and the Christians of that era were also being foretold that this prophet is coming and they're also waiting, but they're hoping it's going to be from their bloodlines. Right? See, everybody's looking, everybody's looking. But there was a rabbi who came to a group of women where Satanah Khadijah was standing and he actually says to them, he says, a woman of Quraish. The signs are telling us that the prophet is here and he will be from Quraish. So if any of you can marry him, then do so. Now all the other women who are sitting with Satanah Khadijah start laughing at this man. They're like, what kind of jokes there is this? What prophet is telling us to marry him? Not only are they laughing at him, they start kind of throwing stones at him to go away. But not her. She hears this and she feels like something enters into her heart like, oh, I hope that could be me. Do you know when some, you know, for everybody here who's ever thought about when they were younger, thought about getting married, there's always this kind of like, I wonder who that person will be. And a list of characteristics follows. Sometimes it's a little more shallow and sometimes it's a little deeper depending, you know. In this society people will say, what is it? Tall, dark, and handsome. I don't know if you know what that means. But anyway, whatever characteristics people have, right? Anyway, Lashal, she had in her heart, imagine, put yourself in her shoes for a minute. She had this in her heart, this little thing enter your heart like, if that would be me, what would it be like to be the wife of a prophet? Right? SubhanAllah. So back now to the story about Sayyidina Muhammad where it's time for him to take her caravan. So she calls her servant. What's her servant's name? Maserah. And she tells Maserah, this is going to be the leader of the caravan. Do not let him out of your sight. Everything he does, everything he says, I want a full report afterwards. She has a sense about him but she's not really sure and she wants a full report. So Maserah says, of course. And so off they go on this caravan and so many things start to happen in this journey that she notices and that he notices Maserah as well. And you know the stories here. We're not going to repeat all of them because you know them SubhanAllah of the cloud that's shading the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam wherever he goes. That every time that him or Maserah are thirsty, he just kind of hits the ground and water springs up from wherever and they're in the middle of a desert, right? That when they pass by the monk, the Haida, right? Who never comes out and doesn't want to ever want to interact with people. He sees from a distance and he rushes over and he sees that the Prophet's sitting under the tree and he rushes to Maserah and says, who's this man? And he says his name's Muhammad. He's the caravan leader. And he says, no, this is a Prophet and there could be people out to get him. So go quickly, go back to your home, right? And so Maserah is worried about this. And so Maserah experiences all these strange happenings that are going on about this man. And one of the most important things that he reports back to Satana Khadijah is that in the trade, when the Prophet's doing business, it's a customary that you swear upon the idols, that the Prophet Muhammad never does that. And so when Maserah hears actually, what did you say that he doesn't swear on the idols? So even from his subhanallah, think about how Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala puts people and he already has things planned. Satana Khadijah is also a monotheist. Not that Muslim, this is before Islam, but because she was raised and taught by Waraqa, who was also a monotheist, he did not believe in the polytheism of that time in the idols. He believed in the one God and he raised her that way. So she's already a monotheist. And the Prophet, sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, since he was a young boy had rejected polytheism and he would think subhanallah how Allah has things planned, right? Because of course, whoever is meant to be with the Prophet, sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, as his wife, is that going to in her past have been a polytheist? Subhanallah, right? So here's just so she hears this from Maserah, hears all these other amazing things and she feels like, you know, like when that enters into your heart and you're like, I wonder if this is him, right? Subhanallah. So anyhow, she contemplates this and from two years back and forth in her head, back and forth, you know, you know, how do I make this move? Because again, in the list of things unique to her, by this point in time, she's 40. And how old is the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam? He's 25. She's 15 years, his senior. So even in that period of time, very similar to today, that's unique. That's not typical. And not only is it not typical, but you know what else isn't typical, still to today? Although it has nothing to do with Islam, this is all cultural things, is for her to initiate the proposal to him sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. See, we're drawing out all of these columns, this column of things that are unique, but also very important that things are not what they exactly seem. And Allah has an amazing, better plan. So you know the story. We won't finish all the parts of this story, but you know the story here where she asks them very beautifully, how does she go about and Sadah Hussain was earlier telling us about what happens when you have a good friend, somebody who visits with you and has a pulse on you. And when you're a little off, they can tell. And they're like, what's actually wrong? What's actually going on? Are you okay? Right, Subhanallah. And so anyway, she, this is her friend, Nafisa. And Nafisa, right, senses there's something going on here, but she does, she wants to ask them, kind of pull it out of Sultana Khadija, like friends sometimes pull information out of you, Subhanallah. And so she asks, and Nafisa and Sultana Khadija finally says to her, well, I've been thinking about proposing to Muhammad, but I don't know how. I don't know. I mean, not only is it so un-customary of her time, but how do you do this? Right? So being the good friend that Nafisa says, she says, I'll take care of it. It's really, you'll do that for me? Yes, I'll do that for you. And so she does this in a beautiful, etiquette way, because you don't know, right? What if he's already thinking of someone else? Like, how do you, you know, how do you don't want to put her in an embarrassing situation? Either. So Nafisa goes over to Sayyidina Muhammad. And she, it's a very beautiful how she asks this. She says to him, you know, her exact words are, what is preventing you from getting married? Now, are you married? Are you interested? No, no, no, what's preventing you from getting married? And so the prophet's a little, I said, I'm tells, you know, so Nafisa and he says to her, I'm not in a financial position to do so. I can't take care of a wife and a family. I don't have the means. So Nafisa very smartly says to him, what if the means were not an issue? What if that wasn't a problem? What if the woman was wealthy and beautiful and honorable? And so the prophet says, well, who's that? And she says to him Khadija. And so he's, you know, he's kind of, he didn't say no. He's kind of quiet and he's interested. And so she's very excited, right? Nafisa's about to rush over to Khadija and tell her, you know, that there is a potential yours. Fa'an Allah. Anyhow, she consults. So he, the prophesier said and consults his uncle Abu Talib, who thinks that this is a good match. And she's in a Khadija, consults her uncle, right? And they think it's a good match. And Subhanallah, right for sake of time, we'll just kind of wrap this piece together and say, both families agree. And Hamdulillah, both are represented by their uncles and their wed. Subhanallah. She's 40. Here's 25. She's previously married twice and has three children. He's never been married. What's to come after this? She is an amazing marriage. Something you can take all week talking about the marriage of Sitsida Khadija and Sayyidina Muhammad, sallallahu alayhi wasallam.