 بركاته السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم والصلاة والسلام على أشرف المرسلين سيدنا ونبينا محمد وعلى آله وصحبه وسلم يا ربنا لك الحمد كما ينبغي لجلال وجهك معظيم سلطانك اللهم افتح علينا افتح العارفين اللهم علمنا ما ينفعنا وانفعنا بما علمتنا يا الله محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم قال أصحابي كان نجوم بأيه مؤتديتم وقتديتم سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم was praising his companions and he said about them my companions are like the stars whichever of them you follow you will be rightly guided so our true happiness in this life is to have a good love relationship with الله سبحانه وتعالى with his حبيب سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم and with the Holy Quran الله سبحانه وتعالى will put special light in our hearts when we love him this light will direct us during ease it will direct us during hardship it will make us follow the light follow the manners of the messenger of Allah سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم and with this light love itself will have another meaning and last week we talked about one of the female companions of سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم so we want to love prophet Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم the same way his companions loved him and focusing on the love of women around سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم so we saw last week that Fatima bint Assad رضي الله عنه who was the wife of prophet Muhammad the wife of prophet Muhammad's uncle about whom سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم said she is my mom after my mom and we saw how much she loved prophet Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم we saw how much she she showed her love to him when he was living with them after the death of his grandfather and we know that his uncle brought him to live with him in his house and she was a true mom to him Fatima رضي الله عنه she showed how much she cared about سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم she showed how much she loved him صلى الله عليه وسلم and we talked a lot about her last week but in return to this love we saw how prophet Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم on her death but he gave them his shirt to be used as one piece of her shroud so we saw his love to her when he laid in her grave we saw how much he cried for her when she died and today we will talk about another companion about we will talk about the first female nurse the first female surgeon in Islam can you guess what her name is she is رفيدا الاسلامية رضي الله عنها so رفيدا accepted Islam early very early and she was one of the Ansar women who welcomed سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم upon his arrival to Medina which was her hometown and many accounts of her life describe her as notably kind, patient, empathetic all of which all of which shine through رفيدا رضي الله عنها her consistent acts of service so what's so special about رفيدا رضي الله عنها as I just mentioned she was the first nurse and the first surgeon in Islam she started her path in medicine by learning from and assisting her father whose name was سعد الاسلامي and her mother was a physician and she was specially known for stabilizing patients and ensuring their proper hygiene in preparation for more invasive procedures so رفيدا رضي الله عنها provided expert level care while continuously referring and burning her skills through hands on field work so she was very active actually on site so eventually رفيدا رضي الله عنها she courageously took her expertise of course to the battlefield so she learned all what she learned from her father who was a physician and she practiced all that she learned so she used to go with the army to the battlefield and she always cared for injured soldiers during the battles and she participated in many many battles including the battle of الخيبار and so on so let's take the battle of الخيبار where she shined on that day at the end of the battle رفيد الله عنها was so impressed with رفيدا's medical nursing work which he provided during that battle رفيد الله عنها assigned her a share of the bounty الением رفيدا رفيدا رفيدا رفيدا رفيدا سيد محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم أظن أنك تفعل your job و سيد محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم is watching you and he is happy with the way you are doing your work he saw that you are sincere he saw that you are careful about your time he saw that you are careful that all the money you are gaining all the salary everything is halal pure halal so this is how we should be faithful to our jobs to our work so what happened once the war and the battles came to an end she was permitted by سيد محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم to maintain what was essentially a small clinic in a tent situated inside the Masjid النبوي imagine imagine how سيد محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم was happy with her that he gave her this honor so she was recognized and she was encouraged by him he allowed her to have the clinic inside the Masjid النبوي and this of course allowed her to continue providing the medical care and also to train more women as nurses this is a novel way of helping patients nurses doctors do the procedures that nurses follow up and their work is very highly so important it's so important so رفيد رضي الله عنهم trained women as nurses so she she's صلى الله عليه وسلم ماشاء الله ياني she was amazing she took very good care of the training and of the patients so رفيد رضي الله عنهم her unwavering devotion to caring for others is remarkable so this is an important message and we said from since last time that when we talked about these companions of سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم when we recognize important aspects of them of their lives we are pointing these points out so that they would be as models for us so these incidents, these characteristics these remarkable things in them will be our inspiration to follow their footsteps so when she when رفيد رضي الله عنهم was training she was doing her amazing job but when she was not working as a nurse what did she do? she pursued social work and advocated for Muslims in need so she continuously served her community while serving her faith served the community what are we doing for our community? are we volunteering to help those responsible responsible people in our communities? are we offering to help them? are we offering to do anything for our community? what are we doing? how are we helping each others? how are we helping in providing the good example for everybody? so we have to continuously serve our community is there a Sunday school we have to help? is there any need for any type of volunteering work for our community centers? we have to help so we have we have to help our community and this in fact would be a true applying for the teachings of our faith we have to be like one body so we help each other now we have to stop here again for a second the aim of this series here is to show what these women around the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم what did they do so that their names is being kept and preserved and is mentioned now after 14 14 centuries what did they do? so the aim of this series is to urge women to be productive the same way that those women around صلى الله عليه وسلم were productive women have the capabilities to impact our world to help to care to serve and they can do so by imitating those female companions who had the blessings of being around صيد محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم so he was he was صيد محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم looked at their work he admired their work and he helped them go on with their work so صيد محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم as we just mentioned had approved for رفيدة to have a clinic inside المسجد النبوي it was a way of helping a way of approving to to to to that so this to رفيدة that he is approving her work he loved what he what she what she did and he helped her so صلى الله عليه وسلم this this thing shows that women have to be productive women have to help women have to show their talents now women around the prophets صلى الله عليه وسلم they were remarkable and we want to be we want to be able to raise women who are like those examples we want to show we want to raise women who are helpful supportive creative who who fulfill the the orders and the legislations of our faith in all aspects so women are strong and this is what we need we need to raise a community we need to raise a group of women who who are good who whom سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم will be proud of on the day of judgment and we all know and we all feel so happy to talk about خديجة رطي الله عمه the mother of the believers سيد خديجة who was the wife of say the محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم she was the first Muslim woman to and the first human being to believe in say the محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم so again now we moved from talking about رفيد رطي الله عمه to talking about the mother of the believers a say the خديجة رطي الله عمه so we saw how سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم admired the work of رفيد رطي الله عمه now we want to see what happened with خديجة رطي الله عمه and we all know the stories on and on and on everyone talked about خديجة رطي الله عمه everyone knows how خديجة رطي الله عمه supported say the محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم do you know how she first heard about say the محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم it's really very interesting story one day and that was of course before Islam a group of the novel women of قريش were gathered close to the kaba and they were chat chatting and they were talking and they saw someone coming closer to them and he he when he got to them he said to them او نسى او تيمى yeah نسى او تيمى all the ladies of تيمى the this is how he called them they are of تيمى there will be a profit coming soon and it is said that this profit will be will be from قريش from this tribe and this profit will be revealed to with the message of الله so any one of you who could who could get married to him let her do it so he wanted them he wanted at least one of them to get married to رفد محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم when the lady has heard him some of them just laughed at him some of them just said bad words to him and some of them even took a stone pebbles some pebbles and threw them again at him except for one lady out of this group she was just listening to that man and she was thinking about that man and she was thinking about what he said and she did not do anything of what her friends did or what she did not do anything of what they did and that wise woman was خديجة رضي الله عنها at that day she did not know that she will have that honor and that blessing that she will be the wife of the Prophet she didn't know that she was known as very wise generous and novel she was married her her husband passed away she got married again and also got married her husband passed away so she was just taking care of her children and she was a very successful business woman and she would send caravans to Sham for trading so this business woman heard of someone who is very trustful very trustworthy and she hired him she said I heard about how honest you are and I want you to take my this caravan to Sham to for trading and she sent her boy Maysera to to be with سيد محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم of course at that time she didn't know anything and she there wasn't a Prophet there was no one so Maysera رضي الله عن when he experienced the miracles that happened to say the Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم and why on their way a monk asked Maysera who is this person ما نزل تحت هذه الشجرتي إلا نبي none at all who who rested under this tree that was a good a good miracle a good thing that Maysera have seen and of course we know all the all the stories that maysera all the stories that happened along the way and everything that happened when along the way and how how they traded and they got so much Prophet and they went back so when they went back حديد رضي الله و عن her heard all the stories from Maysera and she was very happy and of course she told her her friend about about him and she said okay why you don't get married to him she said how can I get married to him she said okay I will send I will send that person so I will send to him and of course سبحان الله this marriage happened and we all know we all know how how happy سيد محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم was was with this marriage with حديد رضي الله و عن her and how happy she was with him and she got all his children رضي الله و عن so سبحان الله and we know how the جبريل عليه السلام started to to come to سيد محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم and what happened to سيد محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم how he went back to to his wife and he was so trembling so so scared and she he told her what happened and she confirmed that that he is she says she said to him words very very confidently she said والله ما يوخزيك الله الله will not let you down so what happened to you is something great and she knew that she knew that there will be a prophet she had the feeling but she didn't say anything of course she she just comforted him and got him so calm and then she took him to work her her cousin and he told him that this is النهوس الأكبر this is the same way that الله will send to prophets so خديجة رضي الله و عنها was with سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم we know how much he suffered from creation how much she supported him and there were so many events that happened and خديجة رضي الله و عنها was witnessing these events one after the other and this is how she got she deserved the glad tiding from الله سبحانه وتعالى that he will be rewarded with with a great palace house in الجنة so سيد محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم ساد أميرت أن أبشر خديجة ببيت في الجنة من قصب لا صخب فيه ولا نصب سيد محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم ساد أميرت أن أبشر خديجة رضي الله و عنها may Allah be pleased with her so what is the glad tidings about a palace of jewels in paradise wherein there would be no noise no toil or no fatigue she will be happy ever after she is the mother of the believers who supported سيد محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم all the time all the time and we know how she was strong in faith how she was strong in determination that she is doing what pleases سيد محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم she is doing what pleases الله سبحانك وتعالى and she supported سيد محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم until until she passed away and that was that was very very sad time it happened at the same time after the death of of the uncle of of سيد محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم so the Muslims and Saeed محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم lost a very strong support to him his uncle and of course that was the outer support and when خديجة رضي الله عنه passed away she was the inner support for سيد محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم so خديجة رضي الله عنه was the mother of the believers she loved everyone she cared about everyone and she passed away and سبحان الله سيد محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم said about her خير النساء في زبانها she was the best woman in her time and he also said خير النساء في الجنة the best woman in paradise they said also أملت بي is جفر بي الناس وصدقتني is جزبني الناس she believed in me when people did not believe in me and she she believed in me when when people belied me so she was hand in hand with سيد محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم and الله سبحانه و تعالى gave her gave سيد محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم all his children from her all the six of them of course there is one from another one so this was سيدة خديجة رضي الله وعنه this is this is what we are mentioning now is just a few points about the life of سيدة خديجة but we are to think about these points and we are to think about the lessons that we can get from these points and of course خديجة رضي الله وعنه raised his children and what which children the the most honorable women in at that time زينا رضي الله وعنه فاطم رضي الله وعنه رقية رضي الله وعنه ومقلسون رضي الله وعنه so زينا رضي الله وعنه is the third person that the third woman whom we are going to talk about now so we talked about the mom now we will see a few points about the daughter who was raised by the great mom so talking about the mom and the daughter is what we want to focus on in in our in our life here this is what we want to focus on there should be great moms to raise great children this is what we want so raising as we mentioned as we mentioned last week we have to pay a lot of attention to raising the girls because they will be the moms of this of of of the generations so a mom always raise this the second generation and when she is a good person then this second generation would be good with the help of Allah and the the the help of Seid Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم when when following the rules of raising the children so now talking about the daughter of this great mom so we know that it wasn't easy for it wasn't an easy life that Seid Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم كان with his family ريش did their best to torture the Muslims and we know that زينب رضي الله وانه got married to someone whose name was Abul Haas and he was not a Muslim when there was no Islam but at that time when Seid Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم was revealed to then she had to leave her husband because he is not he is not a Muslim and he did not want to be a Muslim so سبحان الله she tried her best to call him to Islam to to make him abandoned worshiping the idols his cousin was Ottoman بلا افتان his other cousin was Az-Zubayr بن العوان and you know all these names are of the pioneers who became Muslims but he did not and he did not want to leave worshiping the idols so سبحان الله so what happened سبحان الله some some of these things got into her and she she felt that she has to leave him she cannot be with him so she was but she was still so faithful to him and it was Zainab at that time on the 14th year of the of the revelation the Muslims started started to see something that she she she saw that everyone everyone left even the daughters of Zainab Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم they left they left also رقية ومقلثون فاطمة they all left to مدينة and they left their their sisters Zainab in Makkah and she was alone she was very sad she the only thing she could do is that she was praying to Allah سبحانه وتعالى now it was the second year of hijrah that the battle of Badr happened and the husband Zainab's husband fought against the Muslims in in the the battle of Badr they fought against them and he was captured so when Zainab knew that she sent a abandoned that she had it was given to her from her mom that خديجة رضي الله عنها and it was given to her as a gift from her mom so when Zainab محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم was checking who are the captives and how their families are ransoming them so he saw the the pendant of his wife with the money that is being given to ransom the the captive and who was the captive it was his son in law and when he saw that pendant he was very he got the emotion he got emotional so he said to the Muslims if you want if you want to to free him and send her her money then that's fine if not it's it's okay they said oh yes Yaras و الله so they sent her husband back سبحان الله so many things years past and Zainab came to to Medina and أبو العاص came to Mecca سبحان الله until one day something happened and he was going with the with the group and taking the trading for the for the for Quraish and he was very successful and he was he didn't want to become يعني he didn't want to say at that time that he is a Muslim because he wanted to go back and give Quraish their money so they sent him he said when they when he came back to سيد محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم he said أشهد أن لا إله إلا الله وأشهد أن سيدنا محمد عبده ورسوله so I didn't want them to think that I will not give the money for them so I gave them the money and went out and أبو العاص became a Muslim and his wife his faithful wife was so happy that her husband became a Muslim so this is this is the love relationship between the wife and the husband it's a great bond that nothing can separate it now you see the the relationships nowadays between husbands and wife they are so shaky first of all they were based on falling in love falling falling going down but when the relationship between the husband and wife is based on the teachings of Islam the teachings of سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم it raises up so again the lesson of this story is to to have a good relation with husband husband wife relationship is is a very important relationship with this relationship either you can help your children who are the next generation or you can destroy them if the if the marriage relationship between the husband and the wife is not good is not strong then the whole house will be shaky there won't be values there won't be teachings of Islam passed from one generation to the other the first generation where the mother and the father will not be as models for their children so it's it's way more beyond than just a husband wife relationship it's a very strong bond that is ground with the love of الله سبحانه وتعالى and the love of سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم so that all this love is passed down to the children who will be raised to be strong Muslims who will be proud of being Muslims this is what say the خديجة رضي الله عنها this is how she raised her children and this is how how زينا رضي الله عنها how faithful she was to her husband how loving she was to her husband she saw her mom being the most loving the most caring to her husband and to the family and this is how she she followed the steps of her mom and we in turn want to follow the steps of our mother of believers say the خديجة رضي الله عنها so these are these three female companions around the Prophet of say the محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم and inshallah we will be able to follow them we will be able to follow their footsteps we will be able to to make them and we will we are proud of having them as our models إن شاء الله and until we meet next week إن شاء الله I pass my Salam and your Salam to our beloved Prophet say the محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم وسلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته