 السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم والصلاة والسلام على سيدنا وحبيبنا وشافيعنا وقائدنا وقرأة عيوننا سيدنا محمد وعلى آله وصحبي وسلم يا ربنا لك الحمد كما ينبغي لجلال وجهك وعظيم سلطانك اللهم افتح علينا فتوحة العارفين اللهم علمنا ما ينفعونا وانفعنا بما علمتنا يا رحم الرحيمين today insha Allah we will talk about one of the unique pearls in Islam one of the mothers of the believers the wife of سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم السيدة صافية بنتحوية ابني أخطب سيدة صافية was of the wisest woman she was so very pious very pure very clear she was honorable she was known to be one of the worshippers who سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم said to her إنك لبنة نبي وإن عمك لنبي وإنك لتحت نبي you are the daughter of a prophet and your uncle is a prophet and your husband is a prophet سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم witnessed that she is والله إنها لصادقة he is where by Allah سبحانه وتعالى that she is truthful she was a lover of knowledge, education and she was one of those who narrated the Hadith of سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم she passed away on the year 50 Hijri and she was buried in جنة البقية along with all the mothers of the believers who were buried there let's go on in details before we start about سيدة صافية we have to give a very short brief idea about the Medina at that time so the Jews of the Medina used to look at Islam with hatred and envy the prophet Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم was not one of them so they were waiting that the last prophet be of the Jews but he wasn't and that made them so upset and so angry and they filled their hearts with hatred and another level the Islam the call to Islam was a unique call it got the hearts together so people would love each other which means that the tribes of Medina will be united they will be powerful and the Jews hide their plotting against Muslims and that started at the very beginning when they realized that Islam is going to settle in Medina that Medina will be the city the core of Islam so they could not at that time speak it aloud they kept it secret so they couldn't show their hatred until after some time passed so let's now listen to سيدة صافية one of the pearls of Islam one of the mothers of the believers talking about this hatred to Islam so سيدة صافية رضي الله عنها is the daughter of and the blessed Seerah which ibn Ishaq wrote about صافية رضي الله عنها she said كنت أحب أحب ولد أبي إلي I was the most loved amongst my siblings to my father وإلى عمي أبي أسر and also to my uncle أبي أسر so when Rasul Allah صلى الله عليه وسلم came to Medina and he was in Qiba my father and my uncle went there they went to check something so when they came back it was almost sunset and they were so tired they were so upset and I rushed to them the same that I used to do when I was young when they would go visit anyone else so none of them looked at me and they were so upset they were so sad and I heard my uncle أبي أسر is he the one is he the one and my father said yes I swear he is and my uncle said do you know him? can you prove that? when he said yes and my uncle asked him what do you have towards him what do you think you are doing and he said عدا واتو مو الله مبقيت hating him being his enemy as long as I lived and this was how يبن أخطب lived and trying to kill him and doing anything against him and he lived like this until he died he was killed later on by the Muslims so صفية رضي الله وعنها was listening to the conversation between her father and her uncle and she was listening to the grudge and to the hatred that they both had against سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم she felt something she felt that she had some mercy she felt that there is something in her life in herself deep in her heart telling her and there will be something between herself and this prophet they are hating so this was a witness this story that was told by صفية رضي الله وعنها was a witness how much hatred her father and uncle and all their companions of Jews had سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم so they were plotting against him they were trying to do anything that would that would bother him that they could do anything bad to him so it's worth mentioning here that صفية رضي الله وعنها was a surgeon of a Nabi الله يقوب and she was of the offspring of Haroon prophet Haroon رضي الله وعن and her uncle was سيدنا موسى عليه وسلم the brother of سيدنا Haroon صفية رضي الله وعنها was very wise she was aesthetic she had a pure soul she had a clear soul and she was well known of generosity she was a forgiver she was someone who was so special so let's see how she became the wife of سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم we knew that the Jews had deep enmity to Islam and to سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم and of these Jews were the group of the Jews of خيبر so they were trying to take any chance just to point their arrows against Islam so when the Muslims came back of the Treaty of Habibia so we know that the Quraysh did not allow them to get into Mecca and to to go around the Ka'ba to do the Torah the Jews at that time thought that Prophet Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم didn't accept these harsh conditions except for they were getting weaker and the Muslims are depressed they cannot they cannot do what they want so they tried to get advantage of this point and they thought that they can do something here so they sent to the tribe of غطفان and to the Arabs in the deserts just to get the people together to fight سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم the news reached سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم and he realized that they were trying to fight against them so he did not صلى الله عليه وسلم سيدنا محمد did not wait for the Jews to come to fight him but what he did he asked those who were with him in the desert so there were of course some hypocrites and they didn't want to go so Allah سبحانه وتعالى revealed when he said سيقول المخلفون إذا مطلقتم إلى مغانم لتأخذوها ذرونا نتبعكم سيقول when you set out towards the war booty to take it let's follow you يريدون أن يبدلوا كلامة الله they wish to change the words of Allah قلت تتبيعونا say never will you follow us كذلكم قال الله من قبي this did Allah سبحانه وتعالى say before فسيقولون بل تحسدوننا so their response would be rather you aim for us بل كانوا لا يفقهون إلا قليلا but in fact they were not understanding except a little so what happened سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم decided who to take with him to خيبر so that there will be no hypocrites among them so only those who are willing to go for jihad they are following say those who are going for booties no they are not going with him so only those strong believe so only those strong believing people of the companions went with say the Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم and they were about 1400 of those believers so say the Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم went out to fight the Jews and that was the year 7 of al-Hijra say the Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم was so victorious at that battle it was the battle of خيبر and the hypocrites were were in touch with their Jews leaders so they told them that Muhammad came to you he is headed to you he is going to fight you but don't worry they are they are not as much they are not as much in number the same way you are and they don't have lots of weapons to fight you so don't worry about them but those people who went to خيبر were the true believers and with the army there was the wives of the of the fighters they used to go to help the army to take care of the wounded ones and that was against or not the same as the wives of those who used to go in the non-believers armies they used to go for fun or to urge the men to fight the Muslims but now the army of Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم was strong in faith so before getting before entering خيبر Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم was strong in love so the army all stopped and sayidina Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم made the tuhaab he said اللهم رب السماواتي سبع وما أضل الم oh Allah lord of the seven heavens and all the overshadow they uphold ورب الشياطين وما أضل الم lord of the devils and all they lead astray ورب الرياح وما ذرين lord of the winds and all they scatter أسألك خير هذه القرية وخير أهلها وخير ما فيها I ask you for the goodness of this town and for the goodness of its people and for the goodness it contains وأعوذ بك من شرها وشر أهلها وشر ما فيها I seek refuge in you from its evil from the evil of its people and from the evil it contains the Muslims are now at the borders of khaybar so they spent the night over there and Prophet Muhammad if he used to go if he used to go to fight some people he would not he would not come to them he would not start the fighting until it's in the morning he would not fight at night he would not start it at night so in the morning when the messenger of Allah reached khaybar and the people of khaybar came out with their speeds and when they saw the Prophet they said Muhammad and his army they were surprised to see Muhammad ﷺ arrived to fight them and they returned heartily to take refuge in the fort so the Prophet ﷺ raised his hands and said الله أكبر خريب خيبر الله is great خيبر is ruined if we approach a nation then miserable is the morning of those who are warned so Allah gave a big victory to Muhammad ﷺ and he opened the fort there were so many captives and حيي was one of these captives so now the war ended one of the companions his name was he came to Muhammad ﷺ and he said oh messenger of Allah I want you to give me a slave and a woman of those who were captured so sayidna Muhammad ﷺ agreed and he said go and take one so ديحية one man came to sayidna Muhammad ﷺ and he said to him يا نبي الله أعطيت ديحية صفية لا تصلحو إلا لك يا رسول الله oh messenger of Allah you gave ديحية صفية she is the lady she is the leader of قريضة and such a woman is not to go to anyone except you يا رسول الله and she sent and asked him to bring her so sayidna Muhammad ﷺ when he came with the slave woman he looked at her and he said to her go and take another slave and leave this one so he took another one and sayidna Muhammad ﷺ when the booties were to be distributed he would have one portion of the booty which is called a safi and that might be a slave or a slave woman or a horse he would choose that before the booty is distributed so sayidna Muhammad ﷺ took صفية رضي الله عنها and when the army just came back sayidna Muhammad ﷺ wanted to consume he wanted to get married to صفية and he wanted to consume the marriage but صفية it was only about six miles away from خيبر so صفية refused and she refused so sayidna Muhammad ﷺ of course respected her opinion and he did not do anything so the army just went back until they reached a place called الصحبه and there the marriage took place and صفية says ما من الناس أحد أكره إلي منه no one is more hated to myself than this person than sayidna Muhammad ﷺ why? he killed her father in قريظة and he killed her husband and her people in خيبر she mentioned that to him he knew that and he felt how she feels about him so he kept telling her that her people did so and so and they did so and so and they flooded so and so so their actions just they they were rewarded for their actions they were punished for their actions so he kept telling her that until الله سبحانه وتعالى took away all hatred from herself towards sayidna Muhammad ﷺ so she said انتهيت إلى رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم وما من الناس أحد أكره إلي منه no one was more hated to my heart than him فقال إن قومك يصنعوا كذا وكذا but he told me that two people did so and so فما قمت من مقعده I did not leave my seat وما من الناس أحد أحب إلي منه no one is more loved to my heart than he was so sayidna Muhammad ﷺ gave صفية the choice he can free her and she would go back to her family or she would be a Muslim and she would live her life with him so of course she said I would choose Allah and his messenger so he freed her and that was her Dori and she became one of the wives of sayidna Muhammad ﷺ one of the mothers of the believers so she said يا رسول الله لقد هويت الإسلام I love Islam وصدقت بك and I believe in you and I don't have anyone ومالية في اليهودية أرب I don't care about Judaism ومالي فيها واليد ولا أخم من العطق وأن أرجع إلى قوم I don't have a father I don't have a brother I don't want to go back so this answer just shows us how how wise she was she listened to sayidna Muhammad ﷺ she looked into the situation professionally so she realized where the khayr is she was honorable she was reasonable she was intelligent she was so beautiful so sayidna Muhammad ﷺ asked her ما حملكي على الإنتناي من النزولي أولا why did you refuse to get married immediately for the first time so she said خشيتوا عليك من قرب اليهود she said we were so close to the Jews and I was scared that they might hurt you and this answer gave her much more love gave sayidna Muhammad ﷺ much more love to her he loved her when she was married to sayidna Muhammad ﷺ she was 17 years old and she was nicknamed as أم يحيا so when she came to Medina with sayidna Muhammad ﷺ he was so kind to her and Safiya felt how kind sayidna Muhammad ﷺ and she said ما رأيت قط أحسنة خلقا من رسولي الله ﷺ I never found someone who is more who has the best character the best manners as the prophet of Allah the messenger of Allah ﷺ so the person who was in charge announced to the people of Medina that the army came back and sayidna Muhammad ﷺ is back so all the people in Medina they went out to greet sayidna Muhammad ﷺ and his women were getting ready to welcome sayidna Muhammad ﷺ however there was some jealousy as the mother of a believer sayidah ﷺ was so jealous she knew, she realized she got the news that sayidna Muhammad ﷺ got married to Safiya bint Huyay the leader of his tribe and she was so beautiful she was 17 years old and she was so jealous sayidna Muhammad ﷺ wanted Safiya رضي الله عنها to be in the house of and that was where she she stayed at that time and the sayidna Muhammad ﷺ the first one who he visited was of course his daughter sayidna فاطمة رضي الله عنها فاطمة زهراء so he went in and he was kissing his grandchildren and then he left and he saw his women and they welcomed him and he noticed the jealousy in the eyes of so he was watching her so she got veiled and she wanted to go and see her the new wife of sayidna Muhammad ﷺ so she went and she went to the house of Haritha thinking that no one would recognize her she was veiled all over but sayidna Muhammad ﷺ looked at her and he of course knew her and he waited until she went out and he went out after her and he stopped her and he said ياشو قيراء كيف رأيتي so how did you what did you find and عايش رضي الله عنها tried to not to say what's in her heart but the words rushed out of her mouth and she said رأيتوا يهودية بين يهوديات I saw just a Jewish woman among other Jewish women so he said sayidna Muhammad ﷺ corrected her and he said to her يا عايشة don't say that لا تقولي ذلك فإنها أسلمت وحسنة إسلامها don't say that she is a Muslim and she is a good Muslim so عايشة of course رضي الله عنها went back to her to her secret keeper حفصة رضي الله عنها the wife of sayidna Muhammad ﷺ and they were talking about her صفية رضي الله عنها the new mother of the believers was so kind and she had in mind that she doesn't want to have any problems she wanted everyone to love her and she started to get to their hearts by giving some gifts so she started with sayidna فاطمة الزهراء رضي الله عنها the daughter of sayidna Muhammad ﷺ she loved her and they both exchanged that love and صفية رضي الله عنها gave her a gift of gold that she had some earrings she was wearing and she also gave some gold to some of the wives of sayidna Muhammad ﷺ and that was the gold that she brought with her from خيبر صفية رضي الله عنها was so nice and she she didn't want to have any every actions she didn't want to cause to be the reason that the wives of sayidna Muhammad ﷺ would have any reaction against her but they the jealousy was there so one day she came to to know that حافسة رضي الله عنها the daughter of sayidna عمر and the wife of sayidna Muhammad ﷺ said about her she is the daughter of a Jewish and that hurt صفية رضي الله عنها and she was crying and when sayidna Muhammad ﷺ came in she was still crying and he asked her where are you crying and she told him what حافسة said that she is the daughter of a Jewish person and sayidna Muhammad ﷺ told her what to say he said إنك لبنت نبي وإن لأمك لنبي وإنك لتحت نبي you are the daughter of a prophet and that was هرون رضي الله عنها was one of the grandchildren of sayidna هرون and her uncle is a prophet sayidna موسى the brother of sayidna هرون وإنك لتحت نبي and your husband is is a prophet so why are they saying these words against you so this was the sayidna حافسة with the wives of sayidna محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم of course was always jealous of her one time she was talking to sayidna محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم and when the she said that short woman and sayidna محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم of course did not accept that and he said to her لقد قلت كلمة لو مزيجت بما البحر لمزيجت if you you said a word if it's mixed with the water of a sea then it will it will get that water bad so sayidna صفية صلى الله عليه وسلم was loved by sayidna محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم and he said about her والله إنها لصادقة when did sayidna محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم say that when محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم was sick and it was his last few days last few hours and the wives of sayidna محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم were all together and they said to him والله يا نبي الله لو وديت بأن الذي بيك بي she she swear to Allah سبحانه وتعالى saying oh messenger of Allah I wish that I am suffering from what you are suffering and you are safe so the wives the other wives looked at her and they winked at each other they noticed that and he said to them and they asked him why Prophet of Allah he said because of you winking والله إنها لصادقة I swear that she is truthful so she was known she was known to be a very nice very wise person one time sayidna محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم was out at night and it was صفيص رضي الله عنها was walking with him two men of the Ansar came and they gave salam to sayidna محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم they were walking and they gave salam to sayidna محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم sayidna محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم so sayidna محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم called them and he said to them على رسلكو معنى إنما هي صفية بنجو حيي he said she is صفية the dozer of حيي and the two men said سبحان الله يا رسول الله يعني it was so so hard on them that sayidna محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم is explaining to them that she is صفية my wife and the answer of sayidna محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم إن الشيطان يبلغ مني بني آدم مبلغ الدم وإني خشيت أن يقظف في قلوبك ما شيئة he said to them ساتن the devil circulates in the human body as blood does I was afraid that you might have something in your heart so that's why sayidna محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم wanted to explain to them that she is his wife sayidna صفية رضي الله عنها she was in love with the Quran she was so knowledgeable with the meanings of the Quran she was knowing some of its secrets she was knowing how effective Quran is to the hearts to the pure hearts and she was reciting during the night and during the day let's stop for a second this is a big lesson this is an important lesson for all of us the mothers of the believers are our model we have to learn this from them we have to get connected to the Quran we have to get connected to the meanings of the Quran we have to know that when someone is upset when someone is sad when someone has a problem he would just forget about these things that are bothering him he would get in touch with Allah سبحانه وتعالى through his book through his book the book of Allah would make you forget everything around you this is just the words of Allah سبحانه وتعالى so when we are reading the Quran we are talking to Allah سبحانه وتعالى knowing that he is hearing us knowing knowing that Allah سبحانه وتعالى said make dua and I will answer your calls and the Quran has a lot of dua so much dua in the Quran so when you are in a trouble just get back to the Quran make do sit with your Quran and forget about this Dunya get the noor of the Quran to touch your heart when that happens then you will overcome your problems so this was she had a special connection with the Quran and she had also a special connection to the sunnah to the words of Sayyidina Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم so when she has any issue then she would directly direct this issue to the Quran and to the sunnah to the words of Sayyidina Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم also when we think about أم المؤمنين صفية رضي الله عنها she was so generous money would not stay with her she would spend for the sake of Allah سبحانه وتعالى she would know that this Dunya this life has no value there is nothing valuable in this Dunya no one is going to take his valuables with him to the grave everything will be left behind everything it's okay to be rich but we want our wealth to be in our pockets not in our hearts we don't want the wealth to get us away from Allah سبحانه وتعالى no we want the wealth to be a means to get us closer to Allah سبحانه وتعالى we want to give we want to give charity we want to give zikaa we want to help others we want to make those unfortunate who are in need of help we want to make them happy this is why we ask Allah سبحانه وتعالى to give us wealth but not to save it to keep it to spend it so say the صفير رضي الله عنه was so generous also when say the صفير رضي الله عنه I just mentioned that she had a special connection to the words of say the Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم and she was of those who narrated the a hadith of sayyidina Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم and she was following the words of Allah سبحانه وتعالى in in when Allah send with talk about teach what is mentioned in your houses what is revealed in your houses of words of Allah سبحانه وتعالى and of the sunnah of the narrations of sayyidina Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم so she memorized so many hadith and she narrated the hadith to sayyidina Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم and she tried her best to memorize as much as she could of the book of Allah سبحانه وتعالى so صفير رضي الله عنه mother of the believers was a special woman so pious so knowledgeable so kind so merciful so generous after sayyidina Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم passed away sayyidah صفير رضي الله عنه lived about 40 years after his death worshiping الله سبحانه وتعالى giving teaching people and she lived the during the time of sayyidina Abu Bakr sayyidina Omar sayyidina Ali she lived with them and it was in the year 50 of hijra that صفير رضي الله عنه وارضاها passed away leaving very good reputation very good she touched the hearts of everyone and when she passed away someone told Ibn Abbas about her death so he made sujood and he was asked about it why would you make sujood at this time and it was after after prayer and he said أليس قال رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم إذا رأيتم آية في sujood هل سنسأل ان محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم said if you saw a sign if you saw something important just make sujood what is a bigger sign than the death of one of the prophets why so إنا المدين المنورة our mother of the believers صفير رضي الله عنه was buried in جنة البقيح next to the other mothers of the believers and next to the daughters of sayyidina Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم so this was just a little bit about the mother of the believers صفير رضي الله عنه she is our mother and we have to follow her footsteps so إن شاء الله until we meet again next week I leave you by sending my salam and your salam a special salam to sayyidina Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم and may Allah unite us all under his banner with his wives and may Allah be pleased with us in this dunya and in the life after والسلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته