 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 بجلال وجهك وعظيم سلطانك اللهم افتح علينا فتوح العارفين اللهم علينا ما ينفعنا وانفعنا بما علمتنا يا رحم الراحمين today insha'Allah we will talk about الشفاء وبينتو عبدالله and أبو عويدة ابن الجرح رضي الله عنهما so insha'Allah we'll start with الشفاء رضي الله عنها and one day this blessed woman became a Muslim and she was of the very early women who became Muslims so she bludged سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم and she used to go to his home often to sit with a sayada sayada حفصة the mother of the believers and she would teach her how to read and write she was from Quraysh and she was known to be so wise she had brilliant mind and she was very smart so she knew that she was from the few women who could read and write so she decided to serve Islam she decided to serve Muslims with all she can she knows she has something that people do not have so she decided to use this knowledge that she has for the stake of Allah سبحانه وتعالى so she used to be a teacher and she used to teach the female companions of sayada محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم and by this she was the first teacher with woman teacher in Islam and she had a special position with the mothers of the believers and as I just mentioned she had a very strong relation with حفصة رضي الله عنها so events were taking place in the new Islamic state and she continued her jihad and continued her work for the sake of Allah سبحانه وتعالى so when the men would be fighting with the sword she would give her knowledge of medicine in the battlefield and she would help the injured she would help those who need her help and with this she had a very special place with sayada محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم and she would always come to him and to ask him to discuss things with him and sayada محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم liked her wisdom and he liked her wide knowledge this is a message for all women learn, read do your best to be knowledgeable in as many fields of this life as you can and there are a lot of hadiths and narrations that talk about the virtues of the well educated people so Ashifa was one of those very wise and very smart women she was very knowledgeable in medicine and she also practiced رقيا and that was since early time before she became a Muslim so in pre-islamic period she practiced رقيا and when she became a Muslim she came to sayada محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم and she told him I used to practice رقيا before Islam can I do it again so sayada محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم gave her the permission to continue her work and she would always listen from sayada محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم when he used to say سل الله العفوة والعافية فإنه ماءوتي أحد بعد يقين خيرا من معافات so ask Allah سبحانه وتعالى for forgiveness ask him for health for well-being for after being granted certainty one is given nothing better than health and if you wake up in the morning and you are able to get out of bed say الحمد لله I don't need anyone to help me get out of the bed when you go to use the restroom say الحمد لله I don't need any machines help me get the urine out of my body when you do just feel the blessings of health that Allah سبحانه وتعالى with every single thing you can think of you are looking you are seeing you are hearing you can walk you can use your hands you can think thank Allah سبحانه وتعالى for all these blessings and there is a charity there is a Sadaqa for having good health every day you need to pray two rak'as of Dhuha prayer so the chief came to sayada محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم and he gave her the permission he gave her the permission to go on with her work and she used to her to use a spell for a stink of scorpion a spell for the evil eye and a spell of anamella what is this this is a certain dermatology sickness it's a type of skin eruption that she used to know a certain spell for that and she used to say it and Allah سبحانه وتعالى would give Shefa for the person who she is doing the ruqya for now let's stop for a second when you feel sick and you go to a doctor don't think that the medicine this doctor gave you cured you no Allah made the cure on the hand of this person but Allah سبحانه وتعالى is the one who cured so when she came to sayada محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم and said to him يا رسول الله إني كنت أرطي برقا في الجاهلية من النملة وقد رأيت أن أعرضها عليك وكنت أعمال لتصميم كلمة عن البقاء من هذه الأحرار من هذه الكلمة المتاكية وكن أنت تستطيع أن أرد منك فقال لي وقال لي وقال فيها السناب واللتفال عصري لكي أخذتك لكي أخذتك إلى هذا الشخص أنت أنت the Lord of mankind وكانت أنها تستطيع أن تفعل روكيا كانت أن تأخذت كركم وكانت أن تفعل روكيا seven times وكانت أن تأخذ كركم وكانت أن تفعل روكيا مع كركم وكانت أن تفعل روكيا على المدينة وكانت أن تستطيع أن تستطيع أن تستطيع لكي تستطيع أن تفعل روكيا على المدينة وليس فقط أنت تستطيع أن تتعلمها لكن بالطبع, عندما تريد أن تتعلم شيئا يجب أن تحصل على إذا كان الشخص يستطيع أن تعلمه أو لا لا تتعلم أي شخص الذي ستستخدمه أو لن تفهم كيف تستخدمه لا, يجب أن تستخدمه أن تستطيع أن تستخدمه ثم تفعل أن تتعلمه سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم عندما ترى كيف الله سبحانه وتعالى يجب أن تقوم with what he does عندما تسألها أن تتعلمها حفصة رضي الله عنها روكيا على المدينة ولماذا؟ إذا نتوقف المدينة المدينة في أربي يعني أنها مدينة لذا لذلك the reason that this sickness is called because the sick person would feel there are ants on the area that as if they are running on this area and sticking him and that's why this sickness is called the sickness of a namla سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم asked a shefa to teach his wife حفصة رضي الله عنها the ruqya of the namla and she said دخل علي رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم وأنى عند حفصة سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم came in one time when I was visiting حفصة so he said to me ألا تعلمين هذه talking about حفصة رقية نملة كما علمتها الكتابة would you not teach this one or this one of my wife's this one the spell of skin eruption the ruqya of the namla as you told her writing we mentioned at the very beginning that she used to go to the house of سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم to visit حفصة رضي الله عنها she was in very good relation with and she used to teach her how to read and write so سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم liked what she was doing and he was always giving her good position with him and he gave her also a house in مدينة and she lived in that house with her son سليمان رضي الله عنهما that was her life during the life of سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم after سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم passed away and of course when he passed away he was so pleased with الشفاء so the shifa continued to be the teacher and the doctor during the time of سيدنا أبو بكر رضي الله عنه and later during the time of سيدنا أمر رضي الله عنهما and سيدنا أمر also used to to give her a special rank and he used to talk to her he used to take her advice and he having found something special so much knowledge so much wisdom he gave her a position in the market and with this she was the first finance Muslim woman in Islam at the time of سيدنا أمر رضي الله عنهما so now if we stop for a second a woman can be a leader a woman can be a teacher a woman can be a doctor a woman can be everything that can we stop building this society and one of the poets said الأم مدرسة إذا أعدتها أعدت شعبا طيبة الأعراقي the woman is a whole school if you know how to to have a good school then the students who will graduate will be a whole good nation this is the woman this is the woman in Islam and سبحان الله أشفاء used to be very just very good person and she used to say a lot of things about a lot of good things about سيدنا أمر رضي الله عنه and she used to praise him and to witness for his virtues one day she saw a few young men walking very slowly talking very slowly and she said what's this and they said we are worshippers men of worship and she said كان الله عمر إذا تتلما أسمح عمر used to be a very strong man if he would speak people would listen everyone would listen to him he used to speak loudly he used to speak well وإذا مشى أسرى and if he walks he would walk quickly not like the way you are walking وإذا ضرب أوجى if he hits it would be a painful hit وهو ناسك وحقا and he was a true worshipper of الله سبحانه و تعالى عمر رضي الله عنه used to visit her used to check on her and he used to check about her husband and about her son and he would give them guidance and he would give them he would need anything he would fulfill their needs and one time أشفى says that عمر رضي الله عنه came into my house and he found two men sleeping and they were her husband and her son so he said ما شهده معنى الصلاة what happened to these two men when they prayed with us she said يا أمير المؤمنين صليان عن ناس and that was during Ramadan by the way she said او أمير المؤمنين they prayed with people فلم يزالا يصلياني حتى أصبحا و صليان صبحا و ناما so they were praying all the time the whole night that was a night in Ramadan so أمر said I would prefer to pray the prayer in جماعة with people congregationaly and that would be much better for me than going up all night and praying by myself so do your best to revive this سنة of سيد معمر and pray فجر prayer with جماعة you don't need to go to the masjid but pray it with your husband pray it with your children pray it with your father so do your best not to miss the فجر prayer with جماعة that was how Omar understood religion and his advice would always follow the rules that يدن محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم has put so الشفاء رضي الله عنها was a very good female companion and she was the best teacher she was an amazing physician and more than that men used to come to her to listen to the narrations of سيد محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم and of the hadith that she narrated سؤيل عليه الصلاة والسلام عن أفضل الأعمال سيد محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم has asked about the best things to do and he said إيمان بالله faith in Allah وجهادون في سبيل fighting and struggling for the sake of Allah وحج جن مبرور and performing Hajj that is accepted by Allah سبحانه وتعالى let's stop for a second here about and think about what does he fighting and struggling for the sake of Allah the word she had means to fight for the sake of Allah but it also means to fight your nefs to struggle against your nefs the nefs would always ask you to do whatever pleases her the nefs but so the person should always fight the desires should always fight sheytan this is one type of fighting the one type of struggle another type of struggle is that when you have to walk up for a pleasure prayer it's so called you are under your blanket warm, cozy and you think of I have to get up I have to make a duel and I have to pray this is a type of struggling for the sake of Allah سبحانه وتعالى and it's a struggle for worship so we want to worship Allah سبحانه وتعالى and we ask Allah سبحانه وتعالى to make it easy for us one day of the 20th year of Hijrah during the caliphate of عمر رضي الله وعن the teacher and the physician got sick she always used to help people and to cure people but it was at the time when she could not even cure herself and normally when someone is sick you make dua for Allah سبحانه وتعالى Allah please get this person well again and give him good health again Allah will answer this call if there is still time for that person to live but if it's death time then nothing nothing so she passed away she moved to Allah سبحانه وتعالى but whatever she taught stayed and this is why we do our best to do something that would stay after death that would stay after we die that we can still get the reward for it after we die leave knowledge teach someone if you know how to read Quran teach someone how to read Quran at least teach them how to read الفاتحة because whenever they pray they would read الفاتحة and whenever they read الفاتحة they would get the reward and whenever they would get the reward for that you will get the reward also so leave something behind that will be continuous leave something that's called continuous charity to help building a message raise good children who will make dua for you after you die build a message dick a wall a well do something that would give you حسنات that would give you good deeds after you die so moving on we will talk inshallah about سيدنا أبو عبيدة من الجرح أبو عبيدة من الجرح was a thin tall very bright faced man and he had several nicknames he was at the very he became a Muslim at the very early time of Islam so I think it was one day after سيدنا أبو بكر and he was a merchant he was a friend of سيدنا أبو بكر so the titles he had the trustworthy the strong the commander the one who lost the front teeth two front teeth and he was one of the 10 people who were promised paradise and above all his lineage meets with the سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم when he became a Muslim his father his father was against Islam and he was he even died as non-Muslim but what he did he tortured his son with the worst torture that that was possible but the son stayed fast the father got to the point that he was sure that he could not get his son to go back to be a non-Muslim to go back to the religion of the four fathers so he left him he got this he knew that he cannot do anything about it so he said okay I don't care about you right after that he used to insult the Muslims used to oppress them badly until سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم gave the permission for the Muslims to go back to Abassina and was of those who went to Abassina and who lived there safely but he couldn't leave سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم he wanted to go back and he did so he went back to Mecca and years past الله سبحانه وتعالى ordered and gave permission to سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم to migrate to Medina so Abu Ubaida was of the first people who migrated to Medina and that's why he was called صاحب الهجرتين the one who migrated the both immigrants and it was the one to Abassina and the one to Medina and there in Medina سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم talked about asked the immigrants to be brothers so the immigrants were paired off with Ansar and the leader of the Ansar سيدنا ساعد بن معاز was the other pair of سيدنا محمد سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم it was the second year of Hijrah later and the two groups the Muslims and the non-Muslims started the war of Badr and the Muslims were victorious during that battle but later less than one year it was and سيدنا أبو عبيد had a very special remarkable position in that battle so when the Muslims were about to win the battle the archers whom سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم were put on behind the army just to protect the army they thought that the war ended and they ran down to get the booties so at this time خالد بن الوليد attacked the Muslims from behind from the rear changing an Islamic victory into defeat around سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم so he immediately rushed to guard him and he had a special event happened at that time so أبو عبيد رضي الله عن so that سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم had his armor and the two pieces of the armor got into the cheeks of سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم and he was bleeding so he rushed to him and سيدنا أبو بكر saw that he also rushed to سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم to take it out and سيدنا أبو عبيد looked at سيدنا أبو بكر and he said to him أسألوك بالله يا أبا بكر ومن وجنة رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم أو أبو بكر أسألوك بالله سبحانه وتعالى to leave me to take care of it I want to to extract it from the cheeks of رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم so أبو بكر of course gave him that honor and أبو عبيد took the one of these things that came into the face of سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم and he took it with his front teeth and he pulled when he pulled he fell on the on the ground and the piece was taken out of the face of سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم and as a result he lost his front tooth then he did the same for the second piece that was in the cheek of سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم and again he fell down and his second tooth also was pulled out when he pulled the piece from the face of سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم and that's why he was nicknamed as أثرم the one who lost the front tooth الأثرم and he أبو عبيد says this is the best nickname I ever had we know he had a commander he had the the strong the trustworthy he had different nicknames but he says because it reminded him always of the time when he sacrificed himself for سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم so then after that battles happened and he was always fighting against the non believers and سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم would always make him a leader he was very strong he was very honest he was a true trustworthy strong leader and سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم when it was the time of conquering مكة he divided the army into four divisions and he made a leader on one of those divisions then it was also things happened after the conquering of مكة now the tribes would come to سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم to witness Islam to accept Islam and one time there was a group of Yemen and when they announced Islam they asked سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم to send with them to Yemen a person a companion who would teach them the religion and who would teach them the of the religion and سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم said to them come during the night and I will tell you I will send with you the trustworthy the strong and all the companions who heard this statement of سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم they all wished that they are that person whom سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم was called the trustworthy the strong and when it was the prayer after they finished the prayer they were praying with سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم and سيدنا عمر said when I never like to be the Amir the leader of anything except for that time because I like to this statement of سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم so when they finished praying and سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم said السلام عليكم السلام عليكم and سيدنا عمر at that time he said I would make myself tall enough just so that سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم his blessed I would but سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم was looking into the crowd into his companions until his eyes met the eyes of and he said to him come اخرج معهم فقض بينهم بالحق في مختلف وفيه come you will be going with them and you will be a just person with the matters that they have dispute with so he sent him سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم send Abu Ubaida the strong the trust worthy man the companion just to teach the people of Yemen their true religion so this one سيدنا Abu Ubaida during the life of سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم and on the day say the سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم passed away مدينة مدينة everyone in مدينة was panicking but سيدنا Abu Ubaida had a very strong position at that time he he went to سيدنا Abu Bakr and asked him سيدنا Abu Bakr wanted to appoint سيدنا Abu Ubaida as the Khalifa after سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم and he said to him سمعت رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم يقول I heard سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم said إن لكل أمة أمينا each and every nation is trustworthy و أنت أمين هذه الأمة and you are the trustworthy of this nation and he wanted to pledge to give him the pledge to be خليفة but سيدنا Abu Ubaida understood it wisely he was a wise person he said ما كنت لاتقدم رجولا أمره رسول الله and he a leader to someone who was asked by سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم to read the prayer I remember when سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم was on his deathbed and it was the time for prayer he ordered them to tell سيدنا Abu Bakr to read the prayer and سيدنا Abu Ubaida wisely understood it he was smart to understand that سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم appointed سيدنا Abu Bakr to be the Khalifa after him and with this سيدنا Abu Ubaida was of the first people who gave the pledge to سيدنا Abu Bakr to be to be the Khalifa he knew that this was an emanah this is a trust and the one who is trustworthy should be trustworthy no matter what positions what circumstances change so Abu Ubaida was a humble loyal trustworthy person who took care of the Muslims all the time and that of course was recorded for him this moment when he gave the pledge to سيدنا Abu Bakr when he announced it to the Muslims was recorded for Abu Bakr if you want to apply something like this in this dunya always remember that there are some circumstances there are some events that need you to stand fast and it will be recorded for you especially when you are on the right path of course there are people who are recorded but they are recorded badly for their actions but we as Muslims we have to stand steady fast and to prove our points and to be proud of our religion to be proud of our ideas when people are opposing them we don't go with the flow if people are doing something bad it doesn't mean that that this bad thing became okay because everyone is doing it no we always ask Allah to guide us and to make us recognize what is good and what is bad what is lowfall and what is not lowfall and we ask him to guide us to make us follow the correct thing that should be done so أبو عبيد رضي الله عن was very kind أبو عان was very close to and he was his consultant in the political issues and in the issues of jurisprudence also so when some Muslims would ask for to have a leader would ask أبو بكر to appoint a leader to teach them he would say الذي إذا ظلم لم يظلم وإذا أسيئ إليه غفر وإذا قطع وصل رحيم بالمؤمنين he would say you have to go to أبو عبيد the easy to go if someone who is just if someone oppresses him he would never oppress people if someone mistreat him he would forgive them if he is cut off something he would get connected to others he has so much mercy to the Muslims but he is very strong against the non-believers so these are the characteristics of أبو عبيد رضي الله عنه he fulfilled the words of سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم in صورة الفتح الله سبحانه وتعالى gave us the description of the people the companions of سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم he says محمد is the messenger of Allah and those with him are forceful against disbelievers they are merciful amongst themselves you see them bowing and prostrating performing the prayers seeking bounty from Allah سبحانه وتعالى seeking his pleasure their mark there are marks on their faces from the traces of prostration so this was a true example was a true example of those whom الله سبحانه وتعالى has described in the Holy Quran so this was سيدنا أبو عبيد and once there was during the time of سيدنا أبو بكر there was a big army against the Byzantium and the armies of Muslims gathered in a place called أرلير موغ just to fight the Byzantium the chief commander of the army was and was a commander on the center of the army and two armies they started the war and it was a first for war before the army was finished سيدنا أبو عبيد got a letter from from from مدينة and the first thing that was mentioned in that letter was that سيدنا أبو بكر passed away and سيدنا أمر became خليفة after him and the second order in that the second thing that was mentioned in that letter was that سيدنا أمر was demoted in favor of أبو عبيده so he سيدنا أمر demoted خالد أبو عبيد the commander in chief of the army and he appointed سيدنا أبو عبيده in his place when سيدنا أبو عبيده read this letter he found he thought that out of a man out of trust he has to conceal the caliph order to avoid chaos in the army so when it was when the army when the battle finished he immediately very humbly took the letter and gave it to سيدنا خالد أبو عبيده سيدنا خالد he was a very strong leader but yet he would comply to the orders of the caliph no matter what and he said to سيدنا أبو عبيده يرحمك الله أبو عبيده ما منعك أن تخبرني حين جاءك الكتاب may Allah have mercy on you أبو عبيده why you did not tell me when you received the book I would immediately step down as the chief of commander of the whole army so about listen to this answer that was given by سيدنا أبو عبيده he said to him you are leading the army I didn't want to change anything in that it's not for the dunya that I want to be the leader of the army this is not the main issue the main issue is that we should have victory as Muslims so imagine the moral superiority and the unselfishness of this amazing great commander so this is this is what our goal should be in this dunya to be to work for the sake of Allah سبحانه وتعالى and nothing more and then we are passing on time and I'm going to mention this very briefly there was later on a plague before that another point I want to mention actually once سيدنا عمر missed سيدنا أبو عبيده a lot so he visited him in sham and when he أبو عبيده saw سيدنا أبو بكر خاليفة he shook hand he kissed his hand and hugged him he loved him so much and سيدنا عمر said let me take me to your home and سيدنا أبو عبيده said what do you want to do with my home you you will not like what you will see in my home سيدنا عمر understood the message and he said yes I want to go to your home and when he was there he found nothing he said to him where's your stuff I see nothing except an old water skin sword a plate to eat and you are the chief commander and he said to him you could have arranged for comfort for yourself at home but he told him سيدنا أبو عبيده I chose to live a simple way of life and سيدنا عمر رضي الله عن tried and he said we were all changed by dunya except for you أبو عبيده and later on during the eighth year there was a plague that broke in the area where it spread among the army عمر رضي الله عن heard of it when the news of the plague broke and he immediately wrote him a letter he said to him I am an urgent need to you if my letter reaches you at night I strongly urge you to leave before dawn and if you get my letter in the morning I strongly urge you to leave before sunset so عمر was scared that أبو عبيده would get afflicted by the the plague and he wanted to have أبو عبيده back and he had no desire to save himself and leave the army dying and he remembered the Hadith of سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم when he said if you hear of an area that a plague spreads in do not get into that area and if you are in that area do not get out of it but it won't spread so what عمر was scared of happened أبو عبيده became afflicted with the plague and he died he appointed before his death he appointed معاز المجبل as his successor and معاز gave talked to the أبو عبيده and he said by God I don't know whether I have seen a man who had a more righteous heart who was further from an all evil and who was more sincere to people than أبو عبيده ask Allah for forgiveness and ask for mercy this was أبو عبيده رضي الله وعن and our hope إن شاء الله is to raise a generation that are the like of أبو عبيده we wanted to raise a nation we wanted to raise children that would be coolness of an eye to say الله وعليه وسلم so we have to start with ourselves we have to be the good models that we want to raise our kids how we want our kids to be we have to show them that this is how you be and this is how we want you to be and that's what will please the messenger of Allah وسلم الله وعلى سيدنا محمد وسلام وعليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته