 The mysteries of Islam fascinate us time and time again. This is no different from the life story of the Prophet. Who was Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa alihi wasallam? An illiterate dozen merchant who one day stumbled upon amazing Arabic rhetoric? Or was he the creation of Allah's greatest light? Sent down to earth to pull man out of ignorance and bring them to the purest of truths. I Ali Burji am on a journey to discover the real story behind the Prophet, the real story behind our religion, the roots, the beginning, the cradle of civilization. We will continue from our last discussion. We're still in the marriage of Amir al-Mu'mineen and Sayyid al-Fatima alayhi as-salam. And we stopped at the maher. What we said was basically something like the dowry, but the other way around. Yeah, it's not one. We keep it as a maher. It's not a maher. Okay, so basically what is the seal or the agreement of the whatever the husband is going to offer to the bride with her acceptance, of course. So insha Allah, we wanted to go into a very beautiful narration regarding the maher of Fatima al-Zahra. As-salamu alayhi wa alayhi wa alayhi wa alayhi wa alayhi wa alayhi wa alayhi wa alayhi wa alayhi wa alayhi wa alayhi wa alayhi wa alayhi wa alayhi wa alayhi. As we mentioned in the previous episode that Imam al-Alayhi as-salam went to sell his armor and he sold it to someone and it turned out to be Jibrail and he brought the money and gave it to the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa alaihi wa alaihi and the Prophet gave him the armor which he said to him, he informed him that it was Jibrail who bought the armor from him. When the Prophet instructed Imam al-Alayhi to go and sell the armor so that he can bring and the Prophet informed Fatima al-Zahra alayhi as-salam that Imam al-Alayhi is going to do this. The Prophet, Fatima al-Zahra alayhi as-salam, said, oh Rasulullah, I accept Ali for marriage to be my husband but I don't accept the maher of Fahmah al-Durham and she said other people would agree money of silver this kind of maher, other girls if you like. So what's the difference between them and your daughter who is the daughter of Sayyid al-Mursaleen and the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa alaihi said that Allah has said that the homes of earth forever, the homes of earth is your maher and Fatima al-Zahra alayhi as-salam which is if you like from the material point of view is a huge sum but Fatima al-Zahra alayhi as-salam said that I still am not content with this and then hearing that Jibrail al-Salam descended on the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa alaihi and he said oh Rasulullah and Allah says that Paradise al-Jannah and whatever in it is the maher for Fatima al-Zahra alayhi as-salam Allah and in here at the stage Fatima al-Zahra said I'm not content with that either so not only the earth but she wasn't even content with the heavens and the Paradise the Jannah and whatever is in the Jannah which is beyond our imagination and then the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa alaihi alayhi as-salam said oh Fatima al-Zahra what do you want she said deep down really what I want is Allah ask Allah to give to set the maher for me is that the Shafa'a Allah gives me the Shafa'a so that I make this the intercession for the sinners of the Shia of you the Shia of the Prophet she wants she wants the authority to intercede and seek forgiveness from Allah subhanahu alaihi wa alaihi for the sinners of the Shia of the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa alaihi wa alaihi that is that is humongous you can't even comprehend it the amount of mercy Allah bestows on his creation but you see also the understanding and compassion and wisdom of Fatima al-Zahra that she rejects all the riches of this world and the Paradise and what she asks for is to be able to intercede on our behalf on the day of judgment for us the sinners subhanallah and that shows the amount of love they have and honestly it's justified when you say that Ahal Bayt are the manifestation of Allah's attributes they are the manifestation of Allah's mercy Allah's love compassion subhanallah and look at from this beautiful hadith how it Fatima is telling us listen inshallah I'll take care of you inshallah all of you lovers of Aba Abdullah lovers of Amir al-Mu'mineen and all the holy prophet we understand that you know there'll be difficulties we'll sin but the end of the day Fatima al-Zahra will take after we'll go after now obviously we're not saying this to encourage our brothers and sisters to just carry on living life without being considered to the religious obligation but this comes to show the amount of love and mercy Ahal al-Bayt have and also a very beautiful statement that if it wasn't for the love of Ahal al-Bayt we wouldn't really have much of a chance of seeing Jannah or even smelling of a flower from Jannah subhanallah and it's truly a beauty of and how blessed we are the more we learn the more we understand how blessed we are to call ourselves Shia of Ali and inshallah not just keep you on the name we want to be by action inshallah inshallah on this issue of Shia of Ali and us Shia and so on and that you said we're not encouraging people to be dismissive of their obligation we have hadith which in which case someone asked Fatima al-Zahra al-Ali salam am I one of your Shia so it's very important to see what's what's the definition of the shea and she said if you comply if you do what we instruct you and refrain from whatever we prohibit you from then you are our Shia otherwise not that's quite see the thing the last thing is Shia or the love of Ali would want is on the day of judgment to not be recognized as a Shia that would have been devastating yes so in order to be recognized as she I know to be classified as Shia is we must basically do whatever they have instructed us to do and refrain from whatever they have instructed us to refrain from basically to comply with their teachings this will make it will make us Shia Shia of Ali Shia Fatima al-Zahra Shia of the Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa alaihi so it is said that Jibrail al-Ali salam went back to to the heavens and this time came back with a document in which it was it was written that Allah has set the maher of Fatima al-Zahra to be the Shafa'ah of the sinners of the Shia of her father and it was that which Fatima al-Zahra was content with that she get this promise that she will have the authority to intercede she will have to ask Allah for forgiveness for the sinners of the Shia of her father sallallahu alaihi wa alaihi also if you think about it doctor it shows as well the status of Fatima al-Zahra sallallahu alaihi wa alaihi that she she she anything she'd ask Allah SWT would have accepted yes that's what I understand from this narration that Allah already has offered her everything he died of a paradise yeah everything and whatever's included in it and she she obviously chose the Shafa'ah subhanallah and it's very good for us to to acquire this knowledge to understand the position of Ahlul Bayt and how blessed we are to acknowledge them and follow them inshallah and may Allah SWT bless us all with the Shafa'ah of Fatima al-Zahra sallallahu alaihi wa alaihi so inshallah now we want to getting a bit excited now so we got the approval Amir al-Mumineen inshallah should be getting ready for the marriage ceremony yeah so when Imam Ali came and so brought the money the 500 dirhams and what happened and the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa alaihi said to him go to the mosque said to him about the the armor and so on and then he said go to the mosque and I'll come so that we will announce we'll make this announcement and the Prophet Imam Ali left the house and headed for the mosque and on the way to the mosque Abu Bakr al-Amir saw him he said what's up was the latest was happening where are you going where you're coming from he said that Imam Ali al-Salam said to them that I have just come from the house of the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa alaihi he has agreed to marry his daughter Fatima to me and he has said just as he's before that Allah SWT has executed this marriage in the heavens and he's asked me to go to the to the mosque so that the people gather and he will make the public announcement about this obviously they were not very pleased at this news because they had been rejected on numerous occasions by the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa alaihi and so the Amir Mu'minin alaihi sallam went to the mosque and then there were group of people there of the companions and so on and then the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa alaihi came to the mosque and he asked Bilal, Meqdad, Salman and Abu Dardiyah these are some of the true companions and loyal companions of the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa alaihi he asked these four to go to the four corners of the city and invite people to come and gather in the mosque to hear the public announcement that the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa alaihi wants to make and when all the people gathered the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa alaihi delivered the sermon it's a relatively long sermon I'm not going to read all of it and it's given in here it's almost two pages of small front size the Prophet in here in the sermon said that I am not I am like you when I want to marry or give my step-dotus in marriage I can do so but when it comes to Fatima al-Zahra alaihi sallam her business is in the hand of Allah as far as marriage is concerned Allah s.w.t has ordered me to marry my daughter Fatima to my brother and cousin and the first man to become Muslim announced Islam who is Ali ibn Abi Talib Allah s.w.t has executed the marriage in the heavens and he has instructed me in your presence to make this announcement and I take you as a witness that we'll do this marriage and the maher of Fatima al-Zahra will be 500 dirhams and I announce this marriage if Ali agrees to it and Ali sallallahu alaihi sallam immediately says I agree and then when the Prophet finishes his sermon Jibrail descended on the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa alaihi and he said Allah instructs you to tell Ali to deliver a sermon for marriage also the nikah would have been recited yes during the yes and then the Prophet said Ali go for the pulpit and sort of deliver a sermon and he said I should do that in your presence he said yes this is Jibrail instructing me that this instruction comes from Allah s.w.t and of course Imam Ali sallallahu alaihi sallam delivered the sermon again it's about nearly two pages and he said I have sought the hand of Fatima al-Zahra from the Prophet in marriage for a maher of 500 dirhams and I'm doing this in your presence and the Prophet has agreed and and then he said I ask in the presence of these people I ask the Prophet again that in your presence he agrees to this marriage and and the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa alaihi agreed to that as well and the Prophet again said that I accept you as a husband for my daughter and Allah has married you to Fatima al-Zahra in the heavens not only has married you but paid for the maher of Allah that's right yes very true so now I'd imagine that Amir al-Mu'minin needs to make preparations for his new household yeah obviously we understand how difficult must have been for them migrating from Mecca coming into Medina with nothing anyway they didn't have much in Mecca anyway so I wouldn't be expecting materialistically for a lot of things to be summoned for the household and now with regards to the house did Amir al-Mu'minin built the house was was the house given to them how did it start how did the household come to be yeah the house was given by one of the Ansar I think it's come later on it's called Haritha I'm trying to remember the name of his father but it was given by one of the Ansar and he said I obviously Imam Ali al-Salam was not a wealthy man if you like from the material point of view so that was one and of course they wanted to go and sort of buy the necessary items for the household items and whatever which of course the Prophet sallallahu alaihiwala gave from that 500 dirhams some money to Bilal some money to Meqdad some money to Amir al-Mu'minin to go and buy some of the items which are necessary in fact in this work there are they've listed 26 items that were bought you know household items if you like for for use for the benefit of the new couple and of course I can list them I've listed them as they have listed in here and I can go through them to tell you sort of thing that they have bought some of the things that they have bought for example in the list that are given water sack a blanket a clay pot for cooking two silver bangles a mat what's a civil bangles sorry two silver bangles yeah there's some bangles that they wear on day on the hands oh like a bracelet bracelet okay okay you know bracelet usually is kind of a chain but this is um a cup of tea for hair dyeing milk bowl a water can a cloak or chador you know like the chador that are worn by so iran or the abaya that were worn in iraq for example in other countries by the sisters by the by the women yeah two clay jugs a clay water cooler I don't know if you remember but in the old times there were some sort of large um um clays to store water and in the summer it kind of keeps it cool and um and the water the there are investments or the particles they were settled down and to the bottom of the and you can pick up the water from the top that's right you can clean and do it so presumably that's the sort of thing that they bought as I said if you knew you're talking about 40 50 years ago up to then there were this kind of clay water coolers in various parts in iraq today in villages for example yeah probably yes in villages which you have to they were there and presumably it's one of those that they are referring to in here also there is another green colored water clay or or jug a cotton mat sheepskin rug headscarf a shirt four pillows two were filled with date uh palm leaves and two were filled with animal skin pieces a sieve a handkerchief stone handle stone handle to um ground the flower they ground the wheat or barley probably they probably barely used wheat uh yeah to ground the barley to turn them into powder so that or flower so that they could use for making bread um four leather cushions filled with scented herbs a towel the drinking bowls two mattresses one filled with date leaves date palm leaves and another one filled with animal skin pieces two wooden garments and a bottle of perfume so these are if you like 26 items that were bought um for their life to sell their life to their household and if you sit and pawn them reflect upon it subhanallah the best of creation look how simple and humble and pious they are that they just basically require the essentials and that's something beautiful for us to take as well and you know keep reminding our brothers and sisters because nowadays it's getting a bit ridiculous doctor to be honest with you i can understand the frustration of the brothers we have in the community because so much is expected from them today and the thing is the mindset of us we need to constantly look back to our masters and see that the materialistic things are not really you just need the necessary ones there's no need for extravagance there's no need like today people will not be happier if you just have the essentials you you want to have the best car the best sofa the best tv of course the family could build up to that later on but starting your life with your you know your spouse you you know create your household you just need the essentials and obviously the rest of Allah subhanallah takes care of it's beautiful subhanallah yeah so now we have a middle mutmini and Fatima to zahra building the house and what what what what else occurred so once they've got their things that went in the house anything else that may have occurred well i don't know how much time we have we wanted to basically between after doing the nikah marriage or the reciting marriage contract and preparing the household items and the house and so on and actually when the wedding take place and the wedding ceremonies there were some a lot going on i don't know how much time i have whether i can sort of continue this well we could briefly say something um basically those there were those people who were uh very unhappy about being rejected okay by the prophet okay there were those who were rejected and they just gave up and went left but those who were closer if you like to the prophet and who were rejected by the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa ala they were very unhappy and unfortunately they continued to be mischievous in the sense that they tried to do something so that this doesn't they can put a stop to it if you like it doesn't get to the wedding and basically what they were saying is that they used to send their wives and they used to go on the why the the women used to go and see fatma zahra privately and they had one agenda basically very basically saying that you know ali is a poor man he doesn't have much wealth much property and you rejected and there were suitors who were very wealthy who had a lot of many properties and states and so on uh but you rejected him you rejected them and married ali ibn abi talib so this was the theme and fatma zahra used to get upset by that because there were people were belittling amir al mu'mineen ali sallallahu alaihi wa ala they were belittling amir al mu'mineen and presumably the aim was hopefully uh she changed her mind she changed her mind little did they know little did they know uh so basically they said look at you you you've married you've agreed to marry the poorest in qoraysh and you have very little ma which is 500 silver coins which is nothing and then all you have is one sheepskin rug okay and pillows filled with date palm leaves okay and and the rug that you have underneath you is nothing uh so this they adopted this kind of attitude towards fatma zahra alaihi sallam and she that would cause stress and she used to report it to her father sallallahu alaihi wa ala and uh and her father of course used to respond in kind and in order and she used to at least feel happier and the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa ala said even though he doesn't have um a lot of worldly wealth just as i don't and a lot of prophets didn't um prophet isa alaihi sallam i say most of the prophets yeah prophets musa alaihi sallam they went well off they didn't have they were really people like prophet sallam and for example here were given a kingdom yeah were given a kingdom but the majority of the prophets though when we prophets were uh leading a life um like that of the prophet muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa alaihi wa ala and and in order to give uh to tell about the virtues of ma'am alaihi sallam and the merits from ma'am alaihi sallam he said the day that i went to ma'raj from the uh from betul maghdas i saw it was written on the uh rock that there is no allah no no god but allah and muhammad is his messenger whom allah will help and support um by his uh wazir by his vice gerund and i asked gibrael who is this wazir this is a time of ma'raj i asked who is gibrael who is this wazir and gibrael said he's this ali ibn betal and he said when i reached sidaret al-muntaha um in the seven heavens um i saw it was written on one of the columns of the arch on the throne that um there is no god but allah and muhammad is his messenger and allah will support his messenger with his wazir with his vice gerund which amir mu'min alaihi sallam and the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa alaihi says that to continue in this hadith to say to fadr ma'zara on the day of resurrection the first people who come out of their graves will be uh i and ali ibn betal ab myself and ali ibn betal ab and ali ibn i myself myself and ali ibn betal ab will be standing on the bridge of which passes over the hellfire and for people to cross that the surat to the other side if you like to paradise and ali ibn betal ab will tell the fire take this or leave this alone take this this individual who is not one of the followers of mu'ma alaihi sallam says you take him and or the opponent of mu'ma ali and if he's devout of mu'ma alaihi sallam a loyal friend of mu'ma alaihi sallam he says leave that leave him alone so that he passes this so he he wants to show the merits of mu'ma alaihi sallam to fadr ma'zara sallam alaihi sallam and of course the hadith continues he says this is these are the qualities of mu'ma alaihi sallam even though in the world Allah has said that he shouldn't have a lot of wealth because this is he's been the sunnah of Allah many of the prophets and the vegetarians of the prophets were materialistically from the material point of view they went they went well off imagine if you if you had a bit of wealth what would the enemies of ali say up until today so yeah and the end of this hadith which i i summarized i didn't go through the whole thing and of course the prophet said that from this marriage you will have the two two sons which who are the chief of the youth of paradise hasan and hussein and the fadr ma'zara haven't listened to this hadith she was she became very happy and said i do not want anyone other than ali ibn abay talib to be my husband ali is from you like the station of haroon from musa or ali is to you like haroon was to musa um so call him by the name of the son of haroon and he said what's the name of salam haroon he says shuba he said but my tongue my language is arabic so jibrail alaihi salam said to him okay man call him hasan so if you like this is the equivalent of shuba in in hebrew