 السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم والصلاة والسلام على سيدنا وحبيبنا وشفيعنا وقائدنا وقرة عيوننا سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم يا ربنا لك الحمد كما ينبغي لجلال وجهك وعظيم سلطانك اللهم افتح علينا فتوح العرفين اللهم علمنا ما ينفعنا وانفعنا بما علمتنا يا رحم الرحيمين Today Inshallah We will talk about اسما بنت يزيد رضي الله عنها And سيد ابن الحضير رضي الله عنه So We all know that سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم Migrated to Medina And Medina got blessed with the presence of سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم on this this land So سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم after settling down He started the basis for the for the Islam government for the Muslim government And the helpers came to give blood to سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم And we know that what they did for the immigrants And how they helped the immigrants And how they sacrificed for the immigrants And how they shared their stuff with the immigrants So among among these people who came to give blood to سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم was a woman A woman who was very strong character She has a way of an impressive way to talk An impressive way to express herself She came truthfully, honestly to give the blood to سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم She was a unique woman of الأنصار And her name was So she was of the Aus tribe So when she came to سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم She had all the gold in her hand And big, big bracelets, big bangles of gold in her hand And اسمات says سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم looked at her hands And he said Put these these bangles away, اسمات So where do you come from سيدنا؟ Aren't you afraid that Allah سبحانه وتعالى would give you a bugle of fire Don't miss understood the hadith Having gold bangles is never blogных Is never unlawful But showing off is wrong يبدو أنه يجب أن يجعل الناس ترى أن أرى أن أرى من who I am يجب أن أرى at my rank يجب أن أرى how noble I am يجب أن أرى how rich I am هذا لا يستطيع في الإسلام يجب أن يكون لديه دنيا في أعلى لكن ليس في أعلى لا يمكن أن يكون لديك دنيا حتى أن الله سبحانه وتعالى يقول في صورة الضحاة و أما بنيعمة ربك فحدث تتحدث عن ما you have تتحدث عن بلاسنة الله سبحانه وتعالى لكن أخذ أن تتحدث أخذ أن تتحدث not to break the hearts of the poor when you talk about the luxury life you are living شكر الله سبحانه وتعالى for what he has given you and apply the right of Allah سبحانه وتعالى to your wealth and you will do that through giving charities through giving صدق through giving Zaka so apply the rules of wealth apply the rules of Zaka apply the rules of Sadaqa to your own money and your own wealth so who was this unique Muslim woman she was as I just mentioned she had a very strong character and she was so eloquent so she was always of the people who would rush to do good who would rush to help people so she directed her attention to seeking knowledge and to have knowledge of this new deen until that was her big concern she would hear the narration from سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم the words of سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم with full alertness and she would ask questions she would ask about the minute the very minute matters if she doesn't understand it and she would ask all types of questions with adab and she would ask once she asked سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم about the rules of ministration and she learned it very solidly and she taught all Muslim ladies all Muslim sisters so she was very wise and she always wanted to learn more and more and more and one time she came to say سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم and she told him يا رسول الله إني رسول من ورائي إني رسول من ورائي من جماعة نساء المسلمين I am the ambassador of a group of women كلهم يقول بقولي all of them say what I am going to say وهم على مثل رأي and they have the same opinion so what was it that they all gathered to ask سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم she said إن الله بعثك إلى الرجال والنساء فأمن بك واتبعناك الله سبحانه وتعالى has sent you as a messenger both to men and women we believed in you and we followed you ونحن معاشر النساء مقصورات ومخدرات قواعد بيوت we, the women are always at home taking care of our homes and doing our duties to our homes وإن الرجالة فضلوا بالجموعة وشهود الجناء is in will jihad but men are given more because they witness the juma'a prayers they witness, they follow the jana'a they participate in battles for the sake of Allah وإذا أخرجوا للجهد حفظنا لهم أموالهم and when they go out when they participate in battles we would save their houses we would save their money we would warabayna أولادهم and we are raising their children we are taking care of the children we are taking care of the house we are taking care of the children أفانوا شاركهم في الأجري يا رسول الله do we have the same reward يا رسول الله she is worried and all the women at that time were open minded we want to have they were seeking the Akhira the same way the men are seeking the Akhira they know that the men if they are killed in the battle they are murders so what is the reward they are staying at home so she was looking for the doors of goodness she was looking for the ways that she and all the women can get those good deeds because they saw that all these doors were open to men and not to women and that's why she went to سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم she wanted to know what is their share of this reward سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم looked at her and he was he was impressed by this polite this amazing woman who was saying her words in a firm way very eloquently and very truthfully so he صلى الله عليه وسلم was so happy that she was she and the women were looking not only for dunya they were looking for Akhira they were looking for the reward that would get them closer to Allah سبحانه وتعالى so he looked at his companions and he said ever heard a question from a woman that is better than this question or that was said in a better eloquent way than this woman how she said it they said they said no so he looked at asma and he said انصري فيها asma oh asma go اعلمي من وراءكي من النساء and teach those women who you are representing teach them that حسنو تبعو لي احدى كن لزوجها when you are good to your husbands when you fulfill your duties towards your husbands وطلبها لمرضاته and when you seek his content and when you make everything easy for him when you facilitate things for him for the sake of Allah واتباع هالي موافقته and when you help him when you do good things for him when you accept what he is doing when you support him with what you are doing يعدل كل ما ذكرت للرجال يكوز all that you mentioned of the reward that was assigned to men how great is this religion now let's go back and talk about a few a few points here today if you ask any woman what is what do you do they the answer would be in several groups one woman would say I am a lawyer I am a doctor I am a teacher and another important answer would be I am a housewife and this answer might be said in two different ways passionately I am a housewife or with sadness I am a housewife so the first the first answer would show you how this woman loves her position her word she is supposed she knows that she is supposed to provide kindness love, gentleness, wisdom to teach her kids and she is happy fulfilling this duty while the other one would think oh women are not equal to men women are supposed to stay home women are this and that women are she is not supposed with her role in this life even though the role of a woman to raise her children to take care of her children to take care of her house to keep her everything around her clean and her house is filled with angels because she is doing all her best and we all know that clean houses are attract angels sometimes you would go to a house and you would feel you have tranquility you look around you it doesn't need to be so well highly priced furniture no it's a simple house but you feel there is something there is something that attracts your heart to this house it doesn't have the dunya that gives you barriers between you and Allah yes it has furniture but it's simple furniture it is what what we need it's like the house of Sayyidina Muhammad imagine what was the house of Sayyidina Muhammad a mattress to sleep on and imagine what type of mattress it was once they changed his place where he sleeps and they put something that's more comfortable he woke up the next day he said what did you do I don't want this luxury it might make me miss if I sleep comfortably I might miss my night prayers simple house so when a woman knows that الله سبحانه وتعالى said in the Quran وقداربك ألا تعبد إلا إياه بالوالدين إحسانة you Lord decreed that you do not worship except him and to parents good treatment this is a type of a reward that Allah has ordered the kids to treat their parents well in the very highest manner and Sayyidina Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم in one of the narration said الجنة تتحبأ قضاهمي الأمهات paradise lies under the heart the fear of mothers it's not physically but when a mother fulfills her duties towards her husband her children her house her everything then she deserves paradise these are all promises that Allah سبحانه وتعالى has promised so this is one of the points the other point is that in one of the lines of poetry the poet says الأم مدرسة إذا أعدتها أعدت شعبا طيب الأحراقي a woman is like a school if this if the woman is well taken care of well raised she in turn will raise a great generation so some women might say but why would the men be why should we listen to our men why should we follow our men we have rights of course you have rights but you have to know how to apply your rights how to ask for your rights so when Allah سبحانه وتعالى talked about talk about the men being in charge he does not mean that women are lower or that they have less rights قواما means as stated by Allah as indicated by Allah سبحانه وتعالى when he says الرجال قوامون على النسائي بما أنفقوا that men are responsible for what they say what they spend they are responsible because of what they provide they have to provide for the family so in Islam normally the husband is the leader it doesn't mean that he oppresses that he is a tyrant no the men and the women share responsibilities their aim is to raise a good relation so every type of a group including the family must have a leader to guide it and in Islam normally the man is that leader because of his responsibility that he has to provide for the family the women can sit like a queen in her house not worrying about getting any money she is the queen who is served by the husband to provide for her but when we talk about things we have to talk about them the Islamic way not the western way how the western way corrupted the mind of the woman so the western society has completely stripped women of their morality and chastity they want them to be equal to men they want them to do whatever they can so they can be dependent they are not dependent on anyone but we as Muslim women we want to be like those Muslim companions of Sayyidina Muhammad we want to spread Islam we have to show people that the woman in Islam is a valuable creature she is honored by Islam the woman is considered half of the society and in reality she serves she saves the whole society when she follows the right path and when she raises a new generation who follow the right path so this was this was Asma Asma understood who is the woman in Islam so later on years past and Asma still learning and teaching learning and teaching and we have to know that Sayyidina Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم urges learning and teaching especially Quran خيركم من تعلم القرآن وعلمه the best of you is that person who learns the Quran and who teaches it and he says بلغوا عني ولو آية tell people invite people with even one آية learn and teach but was this all for Asma that she wanted just to learn and to teach she was courageous daring she was so brave that she participated in Jihad also at the time of Sayyidina Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم she did not participate in battles but after she participated in Al Yarmouk and we all know that this battle was one of the greatest battles that was against the Byzantines to conquer Sham so Asma went with the army that was under Khalid Ibn Walid and Khalid knew that the battle will be so so severe so fierce so he he asked the women to be with them so they would hand the weapons they would give water to the soldiers they would bandage the wounds of the soldiers and that was not the only thing that Asma was looking for it is said that she took the tent pole and she killed nine of the Byzantines in that battle and she was wounded heavily in that battle but she was so happy she had a greatness coolness of an eye and she was so happy that Allah gave victory to the army of Muslims so she lived after that long years for a long time and the people the companions and those who came after they used to come to her to ask her about the narrations of Muhammad and she narrated more than 80 حديث from Muhammad so this was Asma and she died in the year 30 of Hijra and she was buried in Damascus so this was the leader of women and this was the women who wanted to learn and who wanted to teach the women at her time we move on now to Sayyid Nausaid and Sayyid Nausaid is the wisest was is a name of one of the wisest people and honorable leaders in Medina so he was the son of the leader of Al-Aus and his name was حضير الكتائب and he inherited sayyid inherited his leadership position from his father was a noble a leader an honorable leader and Sayyid took this after his father Sayyid was a fierce fighter and he excelled at swimming and archery and he was given the title of the perfect one and that was before before being a Muslim and that was in the pre-islamic time but there is a saying that الناس كلمعاد خيارهم في الجاهلية خيارهم في الإسلام إذا فقهوا so there is a saying that the best of the men in the pre-islamic time is the best of them in Islam if they they apply Islam fully so as as sayyid was an honorable person in جاهلية he was also the the bright minded person who was well known for supporting his the religion of his fathers and his forefathers so what happened at one time he was sitting with his band and they knew that مصعب ابنامي was one of the leaders and he was one of the companions of sayid محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم and he was given he was in one of the orchards and he was giving talking to the companions of sayyid محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم so he was teaching them he was teaching them about Islam and about Quran and about everything so with him was his friend his companion أسعد المزورارة who was who was one of the leaders of Medina who became Muslims at the very beginning time of Islam so what happened أسعد was مصعب رضي الله وعنه and مصعب was reciting was reciting the Quran to the people and whenever he has a group whom he was reciting Quran to the hearts of those people who are listening softens and everyone who comes to this any of his gatherings everyone would not leave until they became a Muslim so this was the virtue of sayyidنا مصعب that Allah سبحانه وتعالى was giving him so he was he was reciting and he had a group of people who were not Muslim and they recited for them and they all turned to Islam so what happened someone came to sayyid بن حضير and and they told them of course they were not Muslims yet and being the leaders of their tribes so someone came to them and he told them that أسعاد بن زرارة who is the friend of مصعب بن أومير he said so someone came to sayyid and said and told them that أسعاد بن زرارة is protecting this man this young man who is and things are protecting them and they have come closer to our tribe so sayyid بن أومير became very upset and he looked at sayyid and he said how come that till now you haven't gone to these two people and to talk to them to ask them not to do this anymore so not to get closer to our tribe and he said I would have done it but I cannot you know أسعاد is my cousin and I cannot talk to him so sayyid said okay I'm going to do it I am the man for this so he took his spear and he went heading towards مصعب and those people who are with him so when أسعاد saw him he looked at مصعب and he whispered to him this is the leader of his tribe so he came to you be truthful have faith in Allah سبحانه وتعالى and talk to him talk to him so sayyid stood very angry in front of everybody and he was talking to مصعب and he said ما جاء بكما إلينا تسفهاني ضعفانا why have you come here so you want our weak people to follow you well you want our slaves to be against us why have you come here إحتزي لانا إن كانت لكما بأنفوزي كما حاجة just leave us alone so مصعب كانت لكما حاجة and he said he talked the way of the one who has who is very confident of Allah's promises always so he looked at sayyid and he said how about if you sit down and listen if you find something good you would accept it and if you find something not good or if you hate I'm going to say we can leave and we will not talk to you we will not we will be away from your tribe so sayyid looked at him and he said and we all we just started by saying he was a wise person so he said to him fair enough he put his spear down on the ground and he sat and مصعب رضي الله and called him to Allah and read the Qur'an and when he read the Qur'an his heart was moved so sayyid was moved by what he heard from مصعب and he felt something amazing and he felt that with his heart so he liked what he said what he heard and he said how good is what you are saying how good is this so he inquired how to join the new religion so both مصعب and asad said to him you just wash you purify yourself you just witnessed that there is no God except Allah and his messenger is sayyid and that was it just one meeting with the truthful people with the truthful companions who were spreading the word of Allah so what do you think of this so whatever comes out of the heart will immediately get into the heart what comes out of a heart is nothing but an arrow that would hit the heart of the one who is listening with his heart sometimes you go to a meeting so many people are there some of them are affected some of them are not some of them are touched so listen whenever you are in a gathering just get the ears of your heart open listen with your heart not only with your ears when you when you open your heart to and allow it to listen to the light that comes out of other people then this light would get into your heart so with this Osaid accepted Islam and being a balanced a wise person he would not accept to choose just a few pieces of wood or some stone to worship and to leave Islam away behind so he became a Muslim and he went back to Saad he went to his friend as soon as he was getting closer Saad said أحلفوا بالله لقد جاءكم أسيد بغير الوجه الذي ذهب به من عندكم I swear God that أسيد has come a different face that he left with so the light of the heart is reflected on the face sometimes you see some people and you say Oh Mashallah there is light in the face of this person and this just these words would give you an idea about the heart of that person so the light إيمان the light of faith in the heart is reflected on the face so since that day أسيد was so impressed with Quran and he would spend his time just reciting Quran and teaching Quran so when it was when night falls down he would sit by himself and he would start reading the Quran and he would start reading as much as he can to recite of the Quran people are asleep but he is with what gives light to his heart he is reciting the Holy Quran and only the people of this earth liked his recitation also the angels of the sky liked his recitation and he mentions he narrates one time that it was a night everyone was in his home and أسيد was in his home with his younger son his son was sleeping with next to him and his horse was out of the house and he was reciting the ayahs of the Quran he started with Surat Al-Baqara and suddenly the horse was felt something different and there was something not normal so أسيد got scared and he stopped for a second so the horse calmed down when أسيد recited again the same thing happened to the horse so he stopped he didn't want his son to wake up the horse calmed down he went out and he saw a huge big big cloud in the sky that he said I never saw a more beautiful cloud than this one as if it has lanterns so the night was full of light it was very astonishing for أسيد didn't know what happened and when it was the morning he went to sayidina Muhammad and he told him what happened sayidina Muhammad said to him those were the angels they came down because they heard you recite beautifully and his recitation was so beautiful so if you kept reciting people would have waken up to see angels also so that was his relationship with the Quran and أسيد أسيد always said I wish I am is the same way I am on three positions he felt his soul was transparent his transparent spirit so those times when I listen to Quran or recite Quran he feels something special or when I listen to a ceremony by sayidina Muhammad or when I follow a these were the three times that his heart was affected the most and he wishes that he is always having the same reflection on his heart the same way that he is during these three times so أسيد يسيد Sir يسيد أسيد tear and our main our main our main ا balance was his amazing مع القرآن. إسلام هو رلجنة أفضل. إنها رلجنة إيمان. وذلك يساعد بأعطة. إنها أيضاً رلجنة أفضل. الأعمال الصالحة. والذين يساعدون. هؤلاء أفضل. والأفضل والأفضل والأفضل. هؤلاء يساعدون بأعطاءago القرآن. بأطفال القرآن. الأفضل الوهلاء لدي أسفات ت에서는س رائعة with الله. So, we have to develop a good relationship with the Qur'an. We have to develop... We have to have a strong bond with the Qur'an. And this bond would last forever. فنبدأ now with strengthening this bond, starting now with developing this bond with the Quran, it's the time now, Ramadan is a few days away, and we all know that all deeds are multiplied, the reward of them are multiplied in Ramadan by 10 to 700 falls, so read Quran, recite Quran during Ramadan. And we know that some people of Allah would always spend their time in Ramadan reciting Quran, there are people who finish one khatm in Ramadan, people who can do two, people who can read the Quran three times, people who can recite the whole Quran in a week, others in three days. If you do ten days every day, then you will finish in three days, but some of the companions of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ said they finish a khatm, a whole recitation during the night and another one during the day. We want to have a strong relation, a strong bond with the Quran. Ask Allah ﷻ to help you, to make it easy, to facilitate it for you, to be able to read the Quran, to be able to listen to the Quran during these blessed days, and something else. Apply what you are reading, apply the rules of Allah ﷻ. Whenever you hear the words, يا أيوة الذين آمنوا, oh people who have faith, then oh people who believe, just listen to what is after, because Allah ﷻ is saying do or don't do. So read the Quran, apply the eyes of the Quran, and always remember Sayyidina Usaid رضي الله عنه. So during the time, the Caliph Omar, during the time of Sayyidina Omar, Sayyidina Omar loved Sayyidina Usaid, and he witnessed his novelty and high position in society, and he was with him when Sayyidina Omar conquered Al-Quds Jerusalem and got the keys, so Sayyidina Usaid was with him. And a few years after that, Sayyid رضي الله عنه passed away, and that was during the year 20th of Hijrah. So Sayyidina Omar himself helped carrying his body to be buried in جنة البقية. These are the companions of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ. So whenever you visit Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ and whenever you go to the Al-Masjid al-Nabawi, just have a look on those people who are, on those companions who are buried in Al-Baqi'a and give them peace, and say السلام عليكم دار قوم المؤمنين, أنتم السابقون ونحن الله يقون. I'm sending salam to you. You died before us, but we are all going to die, and we, insha'Allah, are all going to meet Allah ﷻ, and he will be pleased with us, and we will be of the group whom Allah ﷻ says about them. رضي الله عنهم وردو عنهم. الله is pleased with them, and they are pleased with Allah ﷻ because of what they found of our word that he had promised, and that is our session for today. وصلى الله عليه وسيدينا محمد وعلى آله وصحيه وسلم. وسلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته.