 السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم والصلاة والسلام على سيدنا ونبينا محمد وعلى آله وصحبه وسلم يا ربنا لك الحمد كما ينبغي لجلال وجيك وعظيم سلطانك اللهم افتح علينا فتوح العارفين اللهم معلمنا ما ينفعنا وانفعنا بما علمتنا يا الرحم الراحمين اليوم ان شاء الله سوف نتحدث about a female companion of the messenger of Allah صلى الله عليه وسلم her name is Al-Khansa رضي الله عنها and a male companion سيدنا سلمان الفارسي رضي الله عنه so let's insha Allah start with Al-Khansa her her name her phone name is to mother بنت عمر بن الحارث بن الشريد so on the 9 on the 8th year of hijra there was a lady an honorable lady who came to be with سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم she she was a beautiful lady she her name was very well known and she was the very eloquent lady she was a poet and she used to say a lot of poetry and she is the Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم liked her poetry actually Al-Khansa is the poet who laminated her brothers and they were called Sacher and Muawiyah when they passed away and she was very eloquent in in limitation she enumerated all the good qualities all the good characters of her brothers along with mourning them so I'm gonna say two lines of poetry she said when she was talking about her brother صخر عينية جودا ولا تجمدا لا تبكيان لصخر الندا لا تبكيان الجري الجميلة لا تبكيان الفتا السيدا so she was she was so fond of her brother and when when he died of course at that time she was not a Muslim at that time and she she mourned him and she mourned his brother for years and years and she used to cry a lot and people used to empathize with her and they didn't know how to comfort her how to calm her she loved her brothers she was her life before Islam there is nothing to prevent her from doing from exaggerating the sadness over the dead people so if we stop here for a second and think about it when Sayyidina Ibrahim the son of Sayyidina Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم passed away after putting him in the grave he teared so they asked him the companions asked Sayyidina Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم what is this why are you crying he said إن العين لتحزن وإن القلب لا يحزن وإن العين لتدمع ولا نقول إلا ما أمرنا الله إنا لله وإنا إليه راجعون indeed the eyes tear and the heart mourns the heart feels sadness feels the loss but we do it in a reasonable way we do it in an acceptable way and this سبحان الله this means that we we all lose loved ones everyone is gonna die no one is living for it forever but when we mourn our loved ones we have to do it in an Islamic way سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم said you can have sorrow and sadness for three days morning is for three days except for the widow she stays for four months ten days in her atta سو this is this this way of exaggeration for for the death of her in the sadness for the death of her brothers was not accepted in Islam سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم we just have to remember that this is Allah's decree death is going to strike everyone death is but a door someone opens that door and passed by before us we are all going through that door سو what eases us at the time of at this hard time is that we are all going to meet when we pass this door so this will make it a little soothing for the heart سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم now what happened to Al-Khansa after she became a Muslim so Islam changed the life of Al-Khansa and there was a delegation of Bani Sulaym who came to سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم she was with them سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم and at that time immediately she erased all the ignorance qualities that she has سو before Islam before someone becomes a Muslim this is the ignorance time for him and when she became a Muslim she changed completely سو what is this ignorance time isn't just for people who are not Muslim and they became Muslim so that the time before becoming a Muslim is called this سو no each and every one of us has an ignorance time an ignorance period someone might not be practicing and then Allah سبحانه و تعالى guided him guided his heart and he became practicing سو he is a Muslim but that period is called the ignorance period loving dunya is from ignorance when we when we love Allah سبحانه و تعالى we realize how this should not be in our life as I mentioned earlier we want dunya we want to be rich but we want the dunya to be in our pockets not in our hearts سو she used to come to say in the Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم to attend the gatherings in the masjid and she used to listen to the Quran that say in the Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم used to recite سو when someone listens with his heart it's different than someone listening with his ears how سو sometimes same ayas are recited in in image lists the image lists people are gathering just a few ayas are recited you look at the faces you might find someone crying out of and someone might be just looking right and left not affected at all so when there is a gathering of remembering Allah سبحانه و تعالى try to be there with all your limbs with your heart with your eyes with your ears with everything so this is what happened to Al-Khansa she opened the doors of her heart to let the light of everything that say in the Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم is saying get into her heart so سو the first thing she did she started to change the way that she was raising her for children for boys سو she instilled in them the love of Allah سبحانه و تعالى she instilled in them the love of Sayyidina Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم she instilled in them the love of fighting for the sake of Allah سبحانه و تعالى of sacrificing themselves for the sake of Allah سبحانه و تعالى so Al-Khansa رضي الله عنها was a very good Muslim companion she witnessed conquering so many countries and during the time of عمر بن الخطاب رضي الله عن The Qadisia battle took place so سيدنا عمر sent the army to free Iraq and to spread Islam there and the battle that happened was was called Al-Qadisia سو she was talking to her four children for four young men and she was reminding them of how great is to have to be a murder for the sake of Allah سبحانه و تعالى and she reminded them that victory is from Allah سبحانه و تعالى so it will be either victory or to become a murder سو she said يا بنيا إنكم اسلمتم طائعين و هاجرتم مختارين so you became Muslims by your free will and you migrated with your own choice سو just remember إعلموا أن الدار الباقية خير من الدار الفانية just remember that the eternal life is way much better than the vanishing life so she is emphasizing to her children that the آخرة the day after the life after is much better than this دنيا they are not comparable and in this سيدنا علي رضي الله عنهم ساد إعمل لدنياك كأنك تعيش أبدا وعمل لآخرة كأنك تموت غدا so live for your دنيا and work for this دنيا then you think that you will be living forever and live for the آخرة work do your best for the آخرة it's as if you are dying tomorrow how do we understand this سفر the first part if you are living just for this دنيا then آه the human human being would would think would plan would do things would think of what will happen after 10 years what will happen to my children so the the the human being will think for this دنيا as if he is living for for for a long time forgetting that سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم said كأنما استظلة تحت ظلي شجرة the one who is living in this دنيا is like the one who is traveling he got tired so he stayed and sheltered had some shelter under under a tree had the shade of the tree just for for a few minutes so this is our life the few minutes that we that this person had the rest this is life but the آخرة is eternal while when someone thinks of the آخرة he will remember حديث رسول الله when he said صلي صلاة كأنك مودهر pray your prayer perform your prayer as if it is the last prayer that you are going to pray as if that you are dying immediately after so living for دنيا or living for آخرة there is no comparison this is what الخنصة raised her children to so she said she said her words and she advised them and she gave them her words of wisdom and she said tomorrow if you wake up you will go to the battle and you should remember that if you die you will be in the high heavens with سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم so this is what we are seeking to be reunited with سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم so her her children woke up the next day they they were so courageous they wanted to go and fight for the sake of الله سبحانه وتعالى and during the battle all four of her children passed away they became martyrs now compare her reaction to the death of her of her children to the reaction of her of the death of her brothers so when when her children passed away when her children were killed in the in the battle she said الحمد لله الذي شرفني باستشهادهم الحمد لله she thanked Allah سبحانه وتعالى that he had honored her with four murders وأرجو من ربي أجمعني بهم في مستقر رحمته and I am begging Allah سبحانه وتعالى that he would reunite me with them with سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم so she did not do what she did with her with her with her brothers you see how Islam changes the personality so when we practice when we practice Islam as it is as سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم then we are guided then we are protected by Allah سبحانه وتعالى when we have anything to strike us when we have any calamities when we have any hardship كن مع الله في الرخاء يكون معك في الشد be with Allah سبحانه وتعالى at the time of ease he will be with you at the time of hardship so when we understand the reality of things we act differently and we ask Allah سبحانه وتعالى always to guide us always to help us always to be with us and when we depend on him we know that we will be saved in this dunya and in the day after insha'Allah so this was the story of Al-Khansa now we move to سيدنا سلمان الفارسي الفارسي is the Persian so سلمان the Persian the story of سيدنا سلمان is amazing he is an amazing person سبحان الله سلمان رضي الله عن كانت ممتازا جدا سيدنا سلمان was very rich so he was a person who lived in Asfahan and he was the governor the chief of the city of the village that he lived in so سلمان says I was loved the most of people to the heart of my father he was so loving he was so caring to the degree that he put me he restricted me of going out of the house because he is afraid that something might happen to me so they were worshippers of fire and because of his extreme love to his son he made سلمان قطنو نار and the word قطنو نار means the servant of fire so he would lit the fire he would not let the fire go down he would always ignite it he would always add the wood he is the one who takes care of the fire and this is a very important position for the people who worship fire so his father as I mentioned was very rich and he on the village one day he said I want to go out so the father accepted and he سلمان was walking and he passed by a church so when he passed by a church he heard some noises inside the voices of the people who were praying so he said to himself I have never liked worshipping fire I have never liked this I have never accepted this I feel there is something wrong in this he feels that the faith of his father is and the people around him is corrupt so he hated it from deep inside so when he heard the people praying in the church he said I think my father put me inside the house and prevented me from going out so that I will not meet a people on another religion they thought that this was their good religion so when he entered the church he looked at them and he liked what they were doing so he said oh this is much better than the religion my people worship and he stayed with them until the sun set so when he came back home his father said to him where are you? when I was at the church so he said my father I passed by people praying in the church and I liked what they were doing I liked their religion and I had been with them all day until sunset and the father said oh boy there is no no hair in this religion you have to be on the religion of your fathers so he chained his son he chained Salman at home and he would not allow him to go away but before leaving the church Salman told them so where is the religion the origin of this religion what is the origin of this religion so they said it's in Sham so he came back and this was what happened his father chained him he did not want them want him to go anywhere but he left a message for them that if anyone is going there if any merchants are going let me know I want to go with them and subhan Allah a group was going so they sent him a message or someone to tell him that the group is going so he ran away and he went with them so when he arrived in Sham he said who is the most religious person here and they showed him the bishop of the church so when he went to him he told him that I love this religion and I want to be with you to serve you in this church so I would learn from you the bishop told him yes come in but that person was very bad he was ordering people to give charities but he would keep this charity for himself he would not give the poor so Salman hated him and that bishop after some time he passed away so they assigned another person to take his place but that person was way much better than that bishop so he loved him and he stayed with him a long time so until it was his death so Salman asked him who do you want me to go to who do you want me to follow I don't know who is good who is bad and he said there is a person in الموصل in العراق so you go to him he is on the right path so when he died and he was buried so he went and traveled to الموصل to meet that person and he also found him a good person on the right path and again in the same time he went to him so he asked him how and where would I go and he told him there is one person in نصيبين and he is on the right path so Salman traveled and went to نصيبين and he also found him a good person until it was his death time so he asked him where to go who is to trust and he told him there is a person in نعموريا and that is the Roman's land so he went to there and he stayed with him he was also a good man but on his death bed he asked him tell me what to do where to go because he liked the religion he didn't want to go back to where to go because he liked the religion he didn't want to go back to to worshiping the fire which he hated a long time ago so that person told him it is now the time of a new prophet and this new prophet is on the religion of إبراهيم عليه السلام on the same way that إبراهيم عليه السلام so you will find him in a place where there is palm trees and he has some characteristics some qualities that you will not miss he accepts gifts he does not accept and there is the seal of prophecy on his shoulders so if you can't follow this person you will be saved he traveled to go to that place but on the way the person who who was traveling with him he got his money and his few cows and he sold him to a person who lives in Medina so as soon as he arrived in Medina he loved the place because it's the place where there are palm trees so he said I hope this is the place of the new prophet so he was working until one day the cousin of the master came and he was talking to him and he said they were talking to each other the cousins to each other so he said so he was cursing the people of and because they are gathered about they are gathered around a person who came from and he he claims that he is a prophet at that time Salman was up the palm tree getting some dates so he was about to fall down from the palm tree so he went down immediately and he said what did you say so his master looked at him and he hit him and he said why are you asking you have nothing to do with this why are you asking so he said nothing nothing I just heard something and now your cousin just confirmed it so he this is what he answered him and during the night he collected his stuff and he went to so he he was so eager to see him he wanted to to make sure that he is the person so he came to and he said to him إنه بلغني أنك رجلون صالح I heard that you are a righteous person ومعك أصحاب لك غرباء ذو حاجة and I know that you have migrated and you have people who are poor and I have this this thing for صدقة for charity so I would give it to you and not to anybody else so he offered it to say المحمد صلى الله عليه وسلم and to the companions so سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم said to the companions take it eat from it but سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم did not eat from whatever سلمان gave them so he said to himself well this is the first one now then he said to سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم I collected my stuff and I noticed that you do not accept صدقة you do not eat from the صدقة but these things this food is a gift to you so سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم ate from it and he gave some to his companions also so again he was so happy and he said this is the second one it came true then he came once to سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم and he was in وقيع الغرق following أجناز and his companions were around him so سلمان wanted to see what is in between the shoulders of سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم so he went behind him سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم felt that and he put down his gown he made his the seal of prophecy shown and clear for سلمان so when سلمان رضي الله عنه so that he said فانك ببتوا عليه وقبلوا هو أبكي I hugged him and I kissed him and I was crying and crying so سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم said come come in front of me sit in front of me so he سلمان told his the story the whole journey that he went through until he met سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم and until he accepted Islam and he was sitting with سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم now الله سبحانه وتعالى has guided سلمان رضي الله عنه so his his ending up in المدين المنورة was not a coincidence after all this long journey from one place to another place from one travel to another travel he was looking for the truth he was looking for someone to tell him about Islam he was looking for سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم just to say to him أشهد الله إله إلا الله وأشهد أنك محمد الرسول الله سلمان رضي الله عنه when he became a Muslim he impressed سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم with the great knowledge he had he traveled a lot so he saw a lot and he had a lot of experience and also he read a lot of books for Persians Romans Jewish and he was known to be very smart wise and a very good person so in مدينة سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم had the brothership between the companions and سيدنا محمد سيدنا سلمان was the brother of سيدنا أبو الدرداء مشاء الله so both people are people of knowledge سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم said about أبو الدرداء هو حكيم حكيم أمة هو أبو الدرداء من أمي و عن سيدنا سلمان he said لقد أشبع سلمان و علمان سلمان has a lot of knowledge مشاء الله so this is the شهادة this is the way that سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم used to look at both of them now سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم is in مدينة he built the masjid in Medina and then after settling and getting stronger there were the battles started so there was the battle of بدر then the battle of أحد during both سلمان could not participate because he is still a slave you know that he was sold he was sold to someone and that person still owns him so one day he came to سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم and سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم told him كاتب يا سلمان he asked him to talk to his master and ask him how much does he need to pay for him so to set him free and سلمان سلمان said I don't have anything he said don't worry about it so he asked his master what do you need so to free me and that person said ثلاث مئة نخلة واربعين أوقية 300 palm trees وحيها له بالفقر he wanted small palm trees so that he would grow them for him for him and then they will grow later so he would plant them for him and they will grow later so he wanted 300 palm trees and 40 أوقية each 5 5 أوقية is 1 kg which is 2 lbs so about 16 16 measure to to get him free so what is the measure in gold سبحان الله سبحان الله so سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم said he said to to the companions help your brother help your brother so someone would come to سلمان and give him 30 sprouts of palm trees small palm trees and the other would come with 20 someone would come with 15 someone would come with 10 until he got all the 300 300 sprouts of the palm trees so سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم go prepare the land dig the holes but do not put anyone in the holes when you are done digging 300 holes I will come myself so سلمان رضي الله did and he help his companions his companions helped him and until everything was ready so he called سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم who came and he planted all 300 palm trees and until today these 300 are the عجوة of مدينة so when we go to مدينة and we buy this small black dates this is the عجوة of مدينة that's a سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم planted himself so now he got the palm trees without the the gold so سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم was once given an egg of gold a small egg of gold someone gave it to him so he called سلمان رضي الله and he told him take this and pay your ransom of the money and he did and سيدنا سلمان رضي الله عن was فريد he is not a slave anymore a short time passed and there was the battle of the trench and it was the first battle that سيدنا سلمان would participate with سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم and that was during the fifth year of the hijrah سبحان الله so the Muslims سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم got the information that قريش united with غطفان and other tribes and they wanted to come and kill the Muslims and to destroy them they were about 10,000 soldiers the non-Muslims so سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم said he talked to all his companions and he told them what's going on so سيدنا سلمان said to رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم يا رسول الله إنا كنا بفارس إذا حصرنا خندقنا علينا نحن في فروجيا إذا كنا كنا حسن نحن جمعنا نحن so this is what what we used to do and سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم liked that idea and he thought that this is an amazing plan so he ordered يجب عليهم أن تبدأ تقريباً، لذلك لديهم ترنج من نور مدينة because there were all gardens and orchards and the other side so that was the only place that they would attack them from. لذلك لديهم all working, سيد محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم divided the amount of digging how much each person would get, he grouped the Muslims into several groups and each group had to dig some a few meters down and around the place. سيد محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم used to say used to make dua for the Muslims for the companions and he would say اللهم إن العيش عيش الآخرة فغفر للأنصار والمهاجرة they oh Allah the real life is the life after ya Allah I ask you for forgiveness for those for الانصار who helped those who migrated from Makkah so the people of Medina and the people of Makkah who came with سيد محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم who migrated to Medina. سيد محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم so they were eager to work harder when they heard the dua of سيد محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم and they were working so hard with with happiness and they would answer نحن الذين بايعوا محمدا على الجهادي ما بقينا أبدا we are the one who gave glids to سيد محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم that we will fight fight with him as long as we live. سلمان was a very strong man he worked what equals 10 of other companions he was very strong he was a very well built man so المهاجرين the people of Medina would say سلمان مننا سلمان is from us and the people of Makkah they would say no سلمان is from us so سيد محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم to listen to them and he heard what they were arguing about so he gave the last word and he said سلمان مننا على البيت سلمان is from us the people of the house so he was given the honor to be from the family of سيد محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم and they were working hard then there was a big big rock that could not be removed by سلمان and to say the Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم so how hard it was for him to do to dig it so he came he took the shovel from the from the سلمان and he hit the the rock and there was a flash of light then he hit it another time there was another flash of light then he hit it a third a third time and there was a another flash of light so سيد محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم so سيد محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم said the first hit there was a flash there was light that Allah سبحانه وتعالى showed me that Yemen is to be conquered by Muslims the second one is Sham and Morocco will be conquered by Muslim the third one the far east countries will be conquered by Muslim which means that Islam will spread all over east west so this was how سيدنا سلمان worked with the Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم in the trench and when when when the whole work was done in six days and when they when the non Muslims arrived into the place and they found the trench they said this is something that the Arabs would not know we don't know this and they were told that there is a person person amongst the Muslims and he told them what to do so for سلمان was not just a person person سلمان was a person of the house of سيد محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم now the battle ended the trench was one of the big factors of the victory of the Muslims and سيدنا سلمان thank Allah سبحانه وتعالى for that he thanked Allah سبحانه وتعالى that he gave him the courage to say the idea to say the Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم and there is a big important lesson here when you do something that it becomes so successful so good so so many benefits out of it then thank Allah سبحانه وتعالى that he provided you with the means to do so it's the blessings that Allah سبحانه وتعالى has given to you so that you are successful so when you think Allah سبحانه وتعالى you will increase you سبحانه وتعالى and there are so many forms of thanking Allah سبحانه وتعالى and inshallah one day we will talk about these forms and الله سبحانه وتعالى loves to hear the voice of his righteous people so when we say الحمد لله الله likes to hear that so he would increase ولا ان شكرتم لأزيدناكم he said it he promised in the Quran if you thank me then I will increase you so this is what happened there are also some other points about سيدنا سلمان but I think we are a little bit over time so inshallah I would like to end with one thing that when سلمان رضي الله عنه was sick on his deathbed he cried and the companions were around him and they asked him why are you crying he said اما والله ما ابكي جزعا من الموت I'm not afraid of death ولا حرصا على الرجع I don't want to live anymore ولكن انما ابكي لأمر عاهده إلينا رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم أخشا أن لا نكون حفظنا وسية نبينا but I'm crying that سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم asked us for something ordered us to do something but I'm afraid that we lost this thing we did not fulfill this promise so he said to us ليكم بلاغو أحدكم من الدنيا كذادي الراكب so let the what what a person owns in this دنيا be what someone who is traveling can hold with him لذا let's think for a minute now if we open our door ops and we looked at how many clothes we have how many shoes we have how many cars we have how many suits we have لنفكر again and try to to to donate what we don't want to try to give people and remember that when you give الله يوحبه أطيب don't give the the torn one or the راث one just give something good for the sake of Allah and remember that he will save it for you in the day after سيدنا سلمان looked at his wife and he said what have you done with the mist that we brought with the perfume that we brought so she said here it is so he said put it in water and spray it spray it around me فإن الآن يأتينا قوم ليس بإنسن ولا جن now I am being visited by some some people some someone by some spirits who are not humans who are not سو another thing that we need to pay attention when we have someone when we we know that someone is dying we need to to make out in the in the room because the angels are coming we wanted to be pleasant for them and also one important thing to do is try to get a few drops of water on the lips of the person who is dying because at that moment الشيطان will have a drink of water and he will say just say just don't believe in Allah and I will give you this water to drink the man the person who is dying would be thirsty and that's why they put drops of water in his in his mouth سو this is why we make the دعاء اللهم إنا نهو ذو بك من فتنة المحيا والممات فتنة الممات is the we seek refugee in New York Allah from the fitنة of death this is what شيطان wants even at the very last breath of our life he wants he will not get this bird he wants to get to the people away from the right path he want to get to the people to be non believers even when they are they are dying سو this was the story of سيدنا سلمان رضي الله عنه so just a very interesting very amazing story there is nothing in coincidence when Allah سبحانه وتعالى wants you to do something then it will happen and it's all predestined وصل الله على سيدنا محمد وعلى آله وصحبه وسلم يا ربنا لك الحمد كما ينبغي لجلال وجيك وعظيم سلطانك وسلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته