 I wanted to share one of the most powerful stories of love that we're describing because I'm describing this amazing love. Well, one of the great stories from the Seerah that I think really conveys this is the story of one of the companions of the Prophet's life, a son named Juleb Ibn If you don't know this story, I really hope that you'll read into it more, but I'm going to share it with you here. Juleb Ibn was one of the companions who took, who became Muslim with the Ansar of Medina. And his name actually conveys a lot about him. His name means literally small grown or even deformed. That's the way that it was, you know, he was named. And why? Because he was actually quite small in stature, very frail, very thin. And some of the descriptions say that he was very unattractive as well. He actually looked, you know, just not, not very appealing. And because of that, he was ostracized. He was teased a lot. He was also an orphan. So he had no lineage, no support, no family backing. And this was, you know, a time and a place where those things mattered. If you had at least family and lineage, you could be protected. So he had nothing. He had no money, no wealth, no features, no traits about him that anybody deemed worthy except for, of course, the best of creation, Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. In fact, he was, and this is, you know, prior to Islam, but he was bullied so often that he actually was ostracized from the men of Medina. And he would take refuge and comfort with the women because they were actually compassionate towards him. That's how he was mistreated so poorly. So the, when he accepted Islam, the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, of course, saw in him qualities that were beautiful because he didn't look to the outward, right? This is the difference between having the proper, you know, sight, because some, we can see, for example, right? We see things, but if you don't have, you know, the discernment to know what's truly of value and what's not, then you're not going to see things according to their true value. So the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam saw people not for their outward appearance. He didn't judge people based on the way that they were dressed or their, you know, status or their names. He looked at character and he looked at, he could penetrate between, you know, from all of that and see into the, to their soul. And so he saw Jule Biba as being very special and someone of immense worth to the point that he actually went to a very prominent family of Medina who had a daughter who she's not known, we don't know her name. But this woman, this young girl was very sought after. A lot of the Sahaba were, she had many suitors. And so the family was a wealthy family and she was quite standingly beautiful. And the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam imagined, here's a man who everybody looks at as being worthless, as nothing. And the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam chose to be his representative, his advocate to this family. And he went up to the father of this family and he said, I'm asking for your daughter's hand in marriage. And so he of course was so overjoyed because he thought it was the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam asking for himself and who better than the best of creation to hand his daughter over to. So he was like, he was so happy. And the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam told him, I'm actually not asking on my behalf. And as soon as he asked him, then who, you know, assuming that it must be another companion like Abu Bakr, Sayyidin Abu Bakr or Sayyidin Omar or one of the other, you know, great companions. And he was told, it was Jalebi. He was shocked, but he didn't want to have bad other. But the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said, so he said, I need to ask her mother. Let me consult with her. And he immediately went to her and he conveyed that this proposal had come. And she had the same initial reaction. The Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam is asking for our daughter, how amazing. And he had to tell her, no, no, no, he's not asking for himself. He's asking for someone else. Who? Jalebi. And she began to scream hysterically. She was like, absolutely not. No way, no way. And all the way she made some very egregious statements that were what she said was inappropriate, swearing by Allah that she would never, ever, ever marry her daughter to Jalebi because he was seen as so low and beneath her. Now, I want you to imagine the scene unfolding. You know, she's screaming and her daughter, this beautiful girl who everybody is eyeing and vying for. She hears her mother screaming comes and says, what's going on? And they tell her that the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam has asked for your hand for Jalebi. And this girl, Masha'Allah, again, we don't know her name, SubhanAllah. What a demonstration of love for the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam and trust in the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. This is true love. She immediately turned to her parents who were like, there's no way we're marrying you to him. Don't worry. And she said, how could you go against the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam? He would never wish anything wrong for me. He would never want anything but my khayr for me. I will accept this proposal. Shucked, right? Everybody's, I mean, this is like a huge shock to everyone that here is this girl everybody's vying for and she's going to marry Jalebi. But why did she do it? Because she had that love for the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. And she didn't question him. She didn't question that he really wanted her khayr, even if the optics didn't look like something that was good or favorable to other people, she knew in her heart of hearts that because it came from the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam it was worthy. SubhanAllah, they were married and they lived peacefully together until Jalebi was one of the companions in a battle. Again, it's not mentioned which one, but he was martyred. Now this is where SubhanAllah, we see the story, I mean, just again trying to imagine this scene unfolding because here's a man orphaned and we've described how people perceived him. But to the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam clearly he was of great importance to the point that during the battle or after the battle the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam turned to his companions asking each one of them if they have found anyone missing, you know, from their family, from their people, from their tribe, did you find anyone missing? Is anyone missing amongst you? And they would, they said so and so and so and so. He again asked, is there anyone missing amongst you? And they said so and so. He then again is asking them like, you know, again eagerly trying to locate someone, right, of importance to him. And now he reveals it and he says after they've repeatedly said no, there isn't anybody, he says what? But I am missing Julei Beb. In other words, you know, he's important to me. You may have found all these other people who are your family members, your people, but I'm missing someone very special to me. That's who this man, his rank was with the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. And so the companions began to search for him and they found that he had been martyred. There were seven bodies laying around him and the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam came, heartbroken to see that he had been martyred. But of course, you know, he conveyed that what had happened, he said that he had been martyred, that he had killed these seven and then one of them must have finally killed him. And then he said, and he said this beautifully, two to three times, it's reported in the hadith. He said, had a minni wa anaminhu, had a minni wa anaminhu. Repeating this so that every single person there saw what the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam was conveying, that you all, all of you at some point thought of this man as nothing, but he is from me and I am from him, right? We are the same, in other words. We're the same. And he made sure to repeat it three, two to three times. And then because he was so small and so frail, jalebi, as a person, the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam picked him up by his own arms. He didn't need anybody else. And if you've ever been around a funeral procession or anything like that, you know, it's not actually very, it's not easy to pick up someone, but that's how small he was that he was able to lift him. And he placed him in the ground. He dug his grave, he buried him himself. And that was, you know, the story that I think, to me anyway, one of many that conveys really love in so many different ways, so many forms of love, right? Because, again, if you look at this beautiful sister, we don't know again her name, who is demonstrating to all of us that when you truly love and understand who the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam is, then you don't question his guidance.