 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 doesn't 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 shoots. 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 Bismillah ar-Rahman ar-Rahim Dr. Al-Aziz Ustadi So we're continuing, inshallah, from where we left And the Holy Prophet was in the ma'raj and he gets a commandment from Allah's point that Fatima must marry Amir al-Mu'mineen alaihi salam And from there on I seek refuge with Allah from the evil regime Bismillah ar-Rahman ar-Rahim, Alhamdulillah, Lord of the worlds As-salatu wa salamu ala Sayyidina Muhammadin wa alayhi al-Taybeen, al-Taybeen, al-Taybeen I seek refuge with Allah from the evil regime I seek refuge with Allah from the evil regime I seek refuge with Allah from the evil regime We have various hadiths that Fatima Zara'a alaihi salam when she was before her birth or she was in the womb of her mother she used to speak to Sayyid al-Khadija alaihi salam We have various occasions that the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa alaihi used to come home and find Sayyid al-Khadija speaking, she says, who are you talking to? She says, Al-Janeen Subhanallah The features of my woman talks to me He keeps me company Have we had narrations from maybe another Prophet? Because we know, for example, the Prophet sallallahu alaihi salam spoke from the cradle to defend a lady But now, while he was At least I don't recall at the moment Again, as part of this Meiraj and the Hadith or the instructions that the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa alaihi received, it says Zawuj al-Nur min al-Nur So Allah s.w.t. calls Fatima Zahra al-Nur calls Imam Ali al-Nur light, if you like and Mary, he says, Mary, the light who is the light Which again indicating the purity and the uniqueness of these personalities The light of Fatima Zahra and the light of Imam Ali al-Nur And Allah s.w.t. says I have married them in the heavens So if you like The Nur of Fatima and the Nur of Ali Allah says, I have married them in the heavens And they will have two pure sons who will be the leaders or the masters of the youth of paradise who are Hassan al-Hassan This was the, if you like the sort of instructions that over the news and of course this one is specifically the news that Allah s.w.t. gave to the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa alaihi And of course years passed by from these and as she grew older when it comes it was time for her marriage at least she was of marriage age a lot of suitors started coming forward they saw it as it would be a great pride for them a great honor that they would marry the daughter of Fatima Zahra the only daughter of the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa alaihi Fatima Zahra alaihi sallam Of course they didn't have in mind the asma and the true status of Fatima Zahra in the sight of Allah s.w.t Basically by marrying Fatima Zahra they wanted to gain this status in community that they've married the daughter of the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa alaihi and various people used to come a lot of people who were wealthy a lot of people who were if you like the ashab the sahabi used to come as we mentioned previously in previous episodes that the sahabi used to come forward on more than one occasion and asking for the hands of Fatima Zahra in marriage and the Prophet used to reject them and until they started if you like making complaints, complaining about why you're doing this to us especially those who were rich they said we are very rich we can have all this wealth and the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa alaihi said very important thing which is the issue of the marriage of Fatima Zahra is not in my hand that's very important it is in the hands of Allah s.w.t it's not usual usually we have the willyya of the father of the children in case of marriage for example when the girl wants to marry the father should give the permission for marriage so except in the case of Fatima Zahra it is Allah who should give the permission for marriage even the Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa alaihi according to this hadith says I don't have the willyya for that it's not in my hand and it's in the hands of Allah s.w.t and look at this divine instructions in this respect of course when he was saying this years before he had heard what Allah has said to him he had of the good tidings of the information of the news that I have destined that Fatima Zahra but he was saying that I am awaiting instructions so basically he is waiting instructions from Allah to send on him and instruct him to carry out the marriage which of course he hadn't received at that time so from what we have shared with us now basically we have a number of people approaching the holy prophet sallallahu alaihi wa alaihi we are not saying that every single one of them had an agenda or something in mind to marry the holy prophet's daughter sallallahu alaihi wa alaihi some of them may came with pure intentions anyone naturally would be interested to marry the daughter of the most important person of that time which was the holy prophet sallallahu alaihi wa alaihi of all time apologies of all time so indication that this marriage was so important that the holy prophet was unable to choose a spouse for his daughter this came direct from Allah now what's next well he was able to choose but Allah has said that he wants that there was a command that he is to marry which means that they were created for one another yes as I said there were people who used to come and boast about their wealth and this ultimately the prophet wasn't very pleased that they showing off with their wealth and so on these are not the values that the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa alaihi was looking for of course he as I said apart from the fact that he saw the merits and virtues of the mama alaihi salam and he considered him to be the best candidate for marriage for Fatma al-Zara alaihi salam but specifically he's awaiting instructions from Allah anyway when one of the people who came forward and sort of boast about his wealth he grabbed hold of some pebbles and stones from the ground and and then he throw them and they turned into jewels diamonds and what have you he said if we want to if you talk about wealth like this but we're not after that so he basically made him you know to go quiet about stop boasting about his wealth and then the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa alaihi said have I not said time and again so it goes to show that this was happening repeatedly and the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa alaihi was replying repeatedly that the issue of marriage of Fatma al-Zara is not in my hand it's in the hand of Allah but I'd like to concentrate on this put the light on this when he says have I not said to you time and again so that I'm awaiting instructions so they gave up after as I said this went on for days or even probably months coming forward making proposal to the prophet or asking for the hands of Fatma al-Zara for marriage and the prophet was rejecting them when they all gave up so there was no chance we'd be rejected by the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa alaihi and and they started saying we know who the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa alaihi keeping Fatma al-Zara for the only person who hasn't gone forward is Ali ibn Abi Talib and we think that he is keeping Fatma al-Zara for Ali ibn Abi Talib alaihi sallallahu alaihi wa alaihi so they did have they had pretty well good idea that you know whom the prophet wish to give his daughter in marriage to and it was Ali ibn Abi Talib they were sure about that but before I continue with the case of Imam alaihi sallallahu alaihi wa alaihi wa alaihi when reports used to come to Fatma al-Zara alaihi sallallahu alaihi wa alaihi so and so has approached your father and he wants your hand in marriage and then the news was coming in on he says I pray to Allah who chose my father as his messenger he says how come these people want to become my husband whereas they have spent years they have spent many years being infidels or being polytheists worshipping idols and whereas my husband should be one who is maasum so Fatma al-Zara sallallahu alaihi wa alaihi wa alaihi she had values for and the value she was is that she didn't she couldn't accept people who were spend some part or significant part of their lives being worshipping idols this was something which was unacceptable to her and she made that clear in this statement so so coming back to the case of Imam Ali and the other suitors they said they came to Imam Ali and said why don't you go forward we all tried we all tried many times we've all been rejected and he's been so, the prophet has been so categorical about the fact that the marriage of Fatma al-Zara is not in his hands and in the hands of Allah swt so they said to him you should go forward so Imam Ali said that Imam Ali went he did wudu or he did ghusl and then he prayed to Allah swt and he wore something he said some appropriate garment and he went forward to the house of Um Salama where the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa alaihi was staying and he said that when he went and knocked on the door the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa alaihi knew where he was he said to Um Salama please go and open the door someone who has come which I'm looking forward to see and of course Um Salama didn't know who he was and he was very eager the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa alaihi was very eager that he opened the door quickly and so she went and while she hadn't had hijab she unlocked the door but kept the door closed so that she had time to go to the other room which according to this and Imam Ali kept the door if like closed to give Um Salama time to leave and go to the other room and then he was instructed to come in so Imam Ali came and sat in front of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa alaihi but he was too shy to say anything and he said that after a while he couldn't say he couldn't utter a word he got up and left and he said goodbye to the prophet and he left and the prophet knew he split the kuffar in half could not and then he left so he came the next day and he sat in front of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa alaihi and of course he probably knew what he was but he couldn't utter a word and this time also he got up and left and if he said that for the third the third day he came and sat in front of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa alaihi for a while and couldn't utter a word and the prophet this time probably he knew that if he didn't say anything if the prophet didn't take any initiative he he said do you have a request what if you come here for Imam Ali continued to be silent he was too shy to even answer what his request was and then Imam the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa alaihi said I suspect that you have come to ask for the hand of Fatima for marriage if you think about it they were the closest they had the best of relations they were like brothers so you would think that for him to go and ask the holy prophet sallallahu alaihi wa alaihi would be an easy task because the connection between them is unique but still you see Amirul mu'mineen so shy so pure like always a child as you said the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa alaihi had made bond of brotherhood between the Muslims the Ansaran muhajireen various people and of course and he made a bond of brotherhood with Imam Ali between himself and Imam Ali so as you said they were like brothers the prophet used to refer to Imam Ali he is my brother and my cousin and Imam Ali also used to refer to the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa alaihi he is my brother and he is my cousin so yes even though he is like brothers but he was too shy to utter a word in this respect and he couldn't do anything until the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa alaihi initiated this and he said do you have a request even then he didn't only when he said that I suspect that you have come here to ask for the hand of Amirul mu'mineen is then that he said yes so this was and he started saying that talking about his devotion to the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa alaihi and that you took me from my parents and you gave me food and you fed me and you educated me the upbringing was in your hands of course if you remember the expert from Najil Balagha said that the prophet gave me the upbringing everyday he used to raise one of his ethical teachings and I used to follow it precisely and exactly the way he instructed me to so he is recalling this basically he is trying to build it up to justify and he said he welcomed him and the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa alaihi said to him yes I agree to the marriage because Allah swt has instructed me the prophet Imam alaihi sallam said I have come to request the hand of Fatima al-Zahra again and the prophet replied whenever other suitors used to come for Fatima al-Zahra I could see that Fatima al-Zahra was displeased was not happy in her face but I need to go and see go inform her about you and see what she has to say so that's another thing which we need to highlight in the sense that even then when other suitors used to come he used to report it to the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa alaihi to his daughter Fatima al-Zahra which is her right Islamic as well and she used to turn away or frown or she used to show without saying anything but she used to reveal her displeasure to the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa alaihi particular suitors so he said I need to go and inform Fatima about you and he went and informed her he went to the next room if you like he informed her and he says that I do not know anyone better than Ali he said to her and Ali has come asking for your hand in marriage and of course you know the merits and qualities of Ali Ali sallallahu alaihi wa alaihi and when I said that to her Fatima al-Zahra Ali sallallahu alaihi wa alaihi didn't say anything but she didn't also she didn't show any displeasure and the front that she used to show when others used to go and the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa alaihi says her silence shows her acceptance of this and this also this action that took place that her silence was a sign of approval I don't think we have it anywhere else when the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa alaihi said that it was then Fatima al-Zahra sallallahu alaihi wa alaihi said that all praise and glory is to Allah SWT and I am content with whatever Allah and his messenger are content with so if you like in this case Fatima al-Zahra she remained silent she didn't show any displeasure she showed her content but she wanted if you like a declaration from the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa alaihi and when the prophet said her silence is her confirmation, her approval of shows her approval for this marriage it is then that she said whatever Allah and his messenger are content with the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa alaihi always encouraged that the maher be a small amount or at least stick to this maher sallallahu alaihi wa alaihi and it's true that these days people ask for a certain amount it's been recommended the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa alaihi recommended that they use this as a sunnah of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa alaihi maher sallallahu alaihi wa alaihi this Maher which is 500 silver coins this will be equivalent if I remember correctly 1.25 kilograms of silver and that will be roughly about 4-500 dollars that's a sort of money