 Alhamdulillah, it's really wonderful to be able to speak about the woman who are in the Quran as we are so close to the month of the Quran Here we are in the month of Shaaban and the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam's famous dua began actually from Rajab Where he would say Allahumma baarek lana fi Rajab. Wa baarek lana fi Shaaban Wa balli ghana Ramadan, right? Oh, Allah put barakah blessings in the month of Rajab And put blessings for us in the month of Shaaban, which is right now And allow us to reach Ramadan and part of the ability to reach Ramadan and really make the most of it Is to plan and prep ahead of time So you have have had the month of Rajab now you're currently in Shaaban and these are the weeks honestly in which you mentally Prep you physically prep you emotionally prep you prep the people around you Especially as women right this is when negotiations happen with family like I am going to Focus in on my Quran this month of Ramadan. I'm going to pray my tarawih inshallah this month I'm going to try to do the aqtikaf Whether it's at the masjid or at home And I want you inshallah to feel empowered to do so because so many women honestly, they're at Ramadan lies by and There is a lot of service to others a lot of feeding others a lot of taking care of others the very little of that turns inward to ourselves But this month of Ramadan is ours just like it is for anyone else Just like this Dean of ours is for us Just like anyone else and the Quran and the woman of the Quran We're going to speak about and you've been hearing about already are an example for both the men and The woman inshallah And so I emphasize that greatly and we'll probably talk about this later Maybe in the Q&A discussion But truly I want you inshallah to focus in on the message today that I'm going to share with you because it is a message of Quran it is a message of dua and is a message of actually even fasting which we'll touch on just a bit I Was asked by our organizers to talk on Hanna Who is the mother of sit in a medium? So you have two women so today my talk is basically a two-for-one Because it's very hard to talk about the mother of medium except that you also speak about medium yourself and in addition of course her son the grandson of Sayyidah Hanna who is Sayyidina Isa, right the Prophet Jesus And So as we kind of think about the story from the Quran I'm going to share with you a little bit about what we do know and the reason I'm sharing with you about both is Because I come from a tradition in which we do not speak about details that we're not directly revealed to this either in the Quran or in So there are speculations or there are stories that come from other religious traditions all their tradition other faith traditions that are not necessarily our own and So what I'll present today is what is definitely known About Sayyidah Hanna, which is not much and from there we'll talk also about sit in a medium Make sense inshallah. So let us start from the very beginning here There is an entire surah of the Quran had dedicated or titled after the family of Hanna and Miriam And what surah of the Quran is that? La Amran exactly the surah is literally called the family of Amran and In the Quran we don't actually have the name Hanna We have the title Imraata Amran the wife of Amran That is how she's referred to by Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la Whereas her daughter Mariam is the only woman in the Quran that is mentioned It has the entire chapter of the Quran named after SubhanAllah Her place of the law is very high and to understand the beauty of Mariam You have to understand who her mother was and to understand the story of Mariam You have to understand the woman who raised her Right, so here's where we begin where Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la says Inna Allah has got a Adam a Nuh and a la Ibraheem and a la Imran a la Aalameen But indeed Allah chose Adam and Nuh and the family of Ibraheem and the family of Imran Above all other people So Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la himself Says these are the people he has chosen To be the highest levels of people that we look up to and that we take example from and Notice here. He doesn't just mention the mother or the father for Miriam He mentions the entire family The family of the Imran, which of course Sayyidina Isa would be part of that as well And he mentions the family of Ibraheem Because you know that all of the descendants of Ibraheem including our own prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam is the family of Ibraheem Right, so Allah says that he has really elevated these people Now if you look at what we do know from the hadith about Imran or Hanna The mother of Mary Here we have some narrations where you have for example Ibn Kathir in his tafsir says that her name was Hanna Intuqab And she Was unable to have children for a very very long time To a point that it became Biologically very rare or unlikely that she'd ever bear a child One day and according to the narration that we find in Ibn Ishaq The famous prophetic biographer of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam She was sitting one day under the shade and she saw Hanna's is such a beautiful story. She saw a bird Feeding its little chick and something entered her heart And for a woman who have not been able to conceive or have had a difficult time in conceiving This is a very real and painful journey This entered into her heart this feeling of I wish I had a child too And she made a very sincere dua But she knew how rare and almost biologically impossible to be for someone like her at her age to have a child And so she said and here we know from now we read from surat al-amran If call a time runner on her own a rabbi in mean of her with you like a mathy book me moharrara That a couple mini Naka and that's a meal I lean She said This is the wife of I'm Iran mother of Mary said my lord Indeed I have pledged for you. What is in my womb? Consecrated meaning only for your service So accept this from me For you alone are the truly all hearing and all knowing I want you to take a look at this dua that she makes because it's such a sincere Dua especially when you think about maybe this is not your Dua per se But when you think of any Dua that you've made where you know It's really Kind of far-fetched that it's going to come true that you're not sure that that Dua is going to be answered That it seems like you've made a Dua before and all those years it hasn't come to pass and Yet you keep on making Dua Wondering if the law is listening to you wondering if the law cares Wondering if a law is actually going to answer it Sometimes we make Dua very half-hearted Kind of like I don't know. He hasn't answered it so far. Why should he answer it now or is it even worth making Dua? I'm asking for the impossible Forgetting that a law who fashioned us and created us and Decide anything he wants and change anything he wants and make anything he wants come to pass and So we learned from the tafsid That they made that when sit in a kind of made this Dua it was not a half-hearted Dua It was a sincere Dua So sincere that she said if it were to come to pass I'm going to take any whatever is in my room for you. Yeah, Allah meaning what What is this word? What is that word even mean in the tafsid they say that the Arabic of this word Muharrara is translated as devoted to your service preoccupied only with the hereafter having no interest in the dunya in Serving Allah's house and worshiping with great devotion and one whose worship is not tainted with worldly aims She basically was saying if you give me this child I Will take nothing from this child I will not ask it the way parents ask children to do things for them or to be for them or to take care of them Or to pay for things for them or you should do this career or you should do this thing I will ask nothing of this child. This child is for you and for you alone And if you give me this child this child will go straight to What was then? Right the place of worship This is how sincere the du'at was Who has the guts to make a du'at like that? Which mother? Our teachers when I was studying this tafsid with my own teacher a woman teacher It was very interesting and she said do not make this lot. I said, but it's How come and she said this is not a du'at to be taken lightly This is not something you just say I'm going to make what's in my room Muharrara, and then you ask all these things of your child This is a very special situation and there were some who might be able to do this but it is rare and So when she made this du'at and very shortly thereafter realized that she was pregnant What we know is that her husband and Iran did not Last to see the pregnancy all the way through he died early. He died and So when she came to give birth to this child She was a single mother That too is very important and she will share this with her daughter And when you think about what all of this means kind of these step-by-step-by-step as we're explaining here It is not a simple But let's look at how generously Allah answered this du'at Several things number one number one is he answered the du'at Do I sometimes is not answered immediately and Sometimes when it is answered it's not answered with what you ask for Sometimes it looks so different than what you've asked for that Allah knows best What you need at that moment and at that time and Sometimes you will never see the du'at answered, but it's kept for us on the day of judgment either as a reward in and of itself or That it repels it literally is like a shield that repels something bad that was coming your way There are so many ways in which du'at is answered in this particular case of loss of panel data chose to answer her du'at so he gives her a child and Secondly, she's very pleased upon delivery then is shocked She didn't say boy or girl She just asked for a child and assumed if it's going to be something Consecrated for Allah and is going to worship in the temple that it has to be a In that era and people would say till today that is true How do you make what is in your womb consecrated to Allah? Now look closely at what she says because here, too It is very important that when Allah sends you the answer to your du'at, but it looks different than what you thought it would be How you react is actually what matters How you react Do you push this away? Do you get so upset? You say this is not what I wanted Okay, or I know better. Look what she says When When she delivered she said oh my lord I have given birth to a girl Not why did you give me a girl? She's merely stating the facts Merely stating the facts In a different Suda in a different time We'll find for example. You have Prophet Yaqub Who also has a very difficult time Making a quick segue here a very difficult time with what's happened with his son Yusuf being taken away from him Crying and crying and crying and crying and the Quran says he was in so much grief that His eyes turn white with grief What be up but I know who me now? Who are going? And yet when he talks to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala he too if you look very carefully at how he talks He states the facts He doesn't complain in the way of objecting to Allah He complains with the facts Inna ma ashkuh, ashkuh literally I complain, ashkuh, shakwa, complains Inna ma ashkuh Bethi wa huzmi in Allah I complain about my grief and my intense sadness to Allah But he didn't object There's a difference between shakwa complaint and between e'atirad, which means objection He doesn't object He complains With the facts because that is permitted people say you can complain to Allah Yes, just like Every person in the Quran With the facts you state the facts and ya Allah I am not objecting to what you sent me But I am complaining about how difficult it is for me This is okay But pushing against the fate and saying why me and how come that is not okay So what does she say she says My Lord I have given birth to a girl and Allah fully knew what she had been given He knows what he sent her But she's come you know stating the facts And then she says and the male is not like the female We could probably spend all the conference talking about just this part of the verse But we won't That has to be for another conference But it is so important to understand that there is differences between men and women And it's right here in the Quran And this does not mean one is better than the other they are different And let me tell you how it is because then we're going to understand what happens to her child so it's in a medium And then she says the male is not like the female I have named her Mary and I seek your protection for her and her offspring from Satan the accursed I want you to really think about how it is That this statement is said the exact wording of what she says because there's nothing in the Quran that comes haphazardly Coincidentally mistakenly every word has its meaning every letter is measured And everything has a deep deep meaning to it And in this Ramadan take a quick segue here in this Ramadan I hope inshallah to Allah that you're going to really take some time to contemplate and To ponder upon the Quran to Fakr and to Dabbur of the Quran My dear sisters if you don't make the time and you're just doing a khatim or a recitation quickly And trying to get from one cover to the other That is not to Fakr and to Dabbur that is not pondering and contemplating on the deep meanings of the Quran Every word has its measure So he tells sisters try to do a khatim sure in which you're trying to get from cover to cover and Try to do another Khatim in which you're truly contemplating its meanings And if you need to read its translation and listen to those who are giving you right the tafsid or the explanation the exegesis of the actual verses Allah your heart will grow so much fonder to the Quran. You'll be so much more connected to the Quran It is a kind of thing that if you kind of allow it to be shallow and surface It's another book on the shelf You pick it up from year to year dust it off a little bit But it's not something that speaks deeply to you It's not something that's yours It's not something where you connect and say ah the dua of Hana or The dua of Miriam that comes of course in Surahs Miriam Or even being able to pick up some of the nuances like wow they were talking about a Complaint with facts but not an objection Or that do has even when they seem far-fetched to the pie in the sky Allah can still answer them and will at his wisdom The when and the where is up to him? So is the how and So is the why My dear sisters, I want you to really take some time this Ramadan with the Quran We'll come back to this verse in just a moment Take some time with it and I want to also tell you I'm going to put in a plug here if that's okay This is a woman's conference. I don't know how many sustained other woman's programs Maybe there will be I'm sure inshallah ta'ala, but I invite you I invite you to you have two big woman organizations Being you know represented here with the woman teachers and scholars who are coming today the Rahmah Foundation You of us are here from the Rahmah Foundation And I hope inshallah that you take the time to attend our Friday night Halafas Which are open and free and zoom in you can zoom in you don't have to drive all the way to Pleasanton inshallah And also the Rahmah Ramadan programs, which so many sisters have said Alhamdulillah like truly benefited from they happen all throughout the month of Ramadan including in-person fiam and Lail and also The am that happens by virtual virtually by zoom where we host so many women scholars from across the US and internationally You get to hear and hear about so many of them and hear them speak and do reflections of the Quran You hear them recite the Quran and you hear them do the explanation and you also hear them sing the sheath All kinds of upliftment. I Want you to tune into that inshallah if you don't follow it already if you're on social media follow the handle at the Rahmah Foundation And also the reason I said this about the Quran make time to take your own put on classes, please Make that time Fine teachers you have Dr. Haifa coming soon after me and she's got the Jannah Institute make time for that You have a southern medium who's coming. I think right after me and has the Qariah app a shout out to her And either of them ask me to do this, but I'm doing this here now because they're not here in the room I can do that but also because Last Ramadan when the Qariah app was launched I enjoyed it greatly and I listened to woman body at recite the Quran and followed along the very hit him right when they were reciting right and Yes, it's fine to listen to male reciters There's no issue in that but there's something so empowering to woman reciters something so empowering to hear your voice reflected in it There are some men in the room, but I was going to all these verses I was going to read to you as actual recitation not just reading But I don't read in front of men so I shall a male of less the brothers who are recording for us But you know, I'm did enough I was going to read to you in the Qiraat Right in the actual ten narrations of the it all because some of the verses that we presented today Are so beautiful as you hear the different narrations from the ten Qiraat that is something if You've already done your good to read kind of you're really good at it and take some time to do the Qiraat If you've done the Qiraat take some time to learn to see it if you've done to see it take some time to actually enroll yourself in Sharia classes one after another after another until you're actually completed your studies I'm taking a total segue, but I'll be speaking from the heart because I feel the story is important and So nuanced but how as woman do we understand the nuance if you haven't studied If you haven't accessed the Quran and haven't accessed the actual tafsir and every woman you're going to see here Insha'Allah as they all come one by one by one and then sit on the stage Before the la hitah with the fault of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala each one has had our ability to study her various studies We're all just sisters like you There's nothing that makes us special or different. I empower you and encourage you to do the same Sign up for your classes one by one work on your foot and one by one Insha'Allah there's more to say but I think I'm segueing too much But I feel so strongly about that and as Ramadan comes up make an intention say Allah This is the month of the Quran allow me to be a woman of the Quran Allow me to be someone who understands your Quran Someone who reads it perfect perfectly with the Qiraat and Tajweed allow me to be somebody who actually Implements it in my life Allow me to be and choose any person that you hear today from the woman of the Quran and asked to be like her find your role model Is it Hannah? Is it medium? Is it any of the other women who are presented find your role model and say Allah make me like her SubhanAllah Male looks up. Say I mean please. Allahumma. I mean I love you all so dearly and I really hope insha'Allah you'll get this With the du'a even if you find yourself thinking that's a pie in the sky So is Hannah thinking the same but she made a resolute du'a And so we'll continue insha'Allah Shortly here what she was saying so you have a full idea of the rest of the story Once it's in a medium her daughter was born and of course born a girl Insha'Allah now comes a little bit of a complication How do we allow her how does she become a person who is going to be fully consecrated to the worship of Allah? SubhanAllah in the temple. How was that going to work? SubhanAllah and so Here what we find is a couple of really beautiful things. She names her Miriam and in the tafsid it says there are two translations of this word Miriam One is that a woman of amazing strength? And oh, yes, it's a nobody. I'm gonna need a lot of strength to handle what's going to come next to her in her life The other one says that she is equal to the woman who is equal to two men She is the only woman who birthed without a man And she is Equal to two men subhanAllah the prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said about sitting in a medium that The dua of her mother Hannah when she made the dua and said oh, well, I'll protect her protect With a progeny from shaytan the prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said this dua was so Powerful is that the shaytan could not touch Miriam or anyone of her progeny, which is the advice And the hadith of the prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam says no person is born except that he's pricked by shaytan And he cries by the touch of shaytan Except for Mary and her son. So there's another dua super powerful right Everything she asks for comes With difficulty, but it comes And the ayahs continue But a couple of her rubbo have a couple in Hassan and one betahana baton hossana Fala ha Zakariya So here Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says explains to us what happens to this dua of Hannah he says that Her Lord accepted the dua right he accepted what she asked for with good acceptance and Caused Maryam to grow in a good manner And he put her in the care of Zakariya Now turns out this is such an interesting side story here about Zakariya. It turns out that Hannah and her sister Hannah is married to Amran and her sister is married to Zakariya. So Zakariya is the Basically, though the husband of her maternal aunt And this is so beautiful because Zakariya is already in the temple And so when she now needs to send this girl the first time it's ever happened to send a girl to worship in the temple and To be there all the time She has somebody already in the temple who is her family member But it also doesn't come easy because in another part of the foot and there is a discussion around How it is that Zakariya has even chosen Because everyone says I don't know. I don't know what to do with this girl. I don't know what to do with a girl I don't know what to do with the girl. I don't know what to do a girl So they say fine all of you cast your pens cast your pens into the water and Whoever ends up with the pen that floats is the one that has to take this girl They don't know what to do with a girl. They're all men like that Oh, it's a good girl. It's upon a loss. They all cast their pens in and the only one that floats to the surface is Zakariya and Allah has this already figured out for her so that she is in good care and good protection And so here she is right This is a lesson number two here of our free lessons that provision comes from Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta'ala you make your du'a But you don't know how is it actually going to work out? right But here is Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta'ala making it work out and Everything falls into place because you have Zakariya, right? Who's the husband of our maternal aunt and is able to take care of her and as she grows up She spends a lot of time sitting in a medium spends a lot of time secluded in worship alone And she's worshiping a lot worshiping a lot exactly as her mother Hannah asked her to or made the du'a for her to And now you have beautiful parts of the surah that come from surah's medium that explain what happens Well, what happens to little medium? What happens to little Maryam? So here we understand kullama dakhala aleyha zakariya almahraba wajada'in daha'a rizqaa qalaya Maryamu anna laki hala qalat hua min'in dillahi inna allaha yaruzuqumai yasha'u bi ghairi hisaab And whenever zakariya would enter upon her to see in her room what it was happening checking on her He would find her in worship And He would find that she has lisqaa Basically they say it was the tafsida says it is fruits that were out of season How do you have fruits that were out of season? This is not America folks You have fruits in the supermarket of all seasons Fruits out of season And so he realized so he realized this is from Allah and he asks her in Median Where did you get this from? As she says It's from Allah It just appears it comes for me Allah is the one who gives the provisions He figures everything out. He puts it in the place. It's meant to be and he gives the provisions And so here she is with fruit out of season so much so that zakariya Also didn't have a child He enters into his heart. Oh, Allah give me a child too Right Miriam is so is special that he's like I want one of them I want one too Mr. Han Allah and that's a different suit at a different place or we understand that he makes dua also for a child And who does Allah give them? Yahya Right Yahya subhan Allah Who is the cousin of Miriam and And so here as we continue inshallah He says that this statement of Miriam understanding that this is this provision comes from Allah, right is something that Only Allah can give you and even the idea of even the fact that Her uncle Zakariya was able to have a child Yahya is also miraculous Because he was so old at age So it's miracle after miracle after miracle coming to this family And lastly the third lesson I wanted to share inshallah from this verse Is that Allah subhan Allah is capable of everything and anything? And what I mean by that is when you look at sit in a medium and the rest of her story When you see for example the story that all of you know Right that after some years and years of worship as being known as the most pious the most chase the most amazing the most beautiful a woman she receives Her greatest test the very thing that is opposite to what she is News that she's going to bear a child with no man having ever touched her And no one else outside in the outside world outside community is going to understand that and that is a massive test And so when this happens, she is in worship as she normally is in her Corner in her room worshiping and here It says what the curve in the kitab in Marjama. You didn't tell that's been a hell of a kind and I'm sure I But that's what I didn't mean to me him he job and the arousanna Eliha Ruhana, but the mother that I have a sharon so yeah and mention in the book the story of Mary when she drew from her withdrew from her family to a place in the east and she Screened herself off from them and we sent to her our angel Jibril Appearing before her as a man perfectly formed Can you imagine put yourself in this you are in worship in the temple day in and day out every day of your life That's your that's your life. That's what you do. You are like your mother's drop Muharrara, you are Consecrated to the temple to the worship of Allah There's all you have ever done and suddenly the strange man that you don't know shows up and appears in your room And so she is really worried She says she says I seek refuge from Allah From you like who are you? What is this? What are you doing here, right? He says I'm here to give you Word or tidings From your Lord that you're going to their son like her mother before her completely shop Right, this is not I mean she's worshiping a lot all day and I want to pause here for a minute and say You may be thinking these are people so perfect so amazing so far from me How could I even compare myself to them? But think about the human emotion for a minute the concept of empathy Empathies when you put yourself into the shoes of someone else when you feel what they're feeling I Ask you to put yourself in the shoes of buddy. I'm for a moment Put yourself in her shoes for a moment Think about how you've been in the temple all your life worshipping worshipping worshipping Allah I Have woman who come to me and counseling often and say to me. I Pray and I fast and I make to hot and I do everything Allah told me to do But he's not listening to my door Or what I asked for has it happened or some terrible thing has happened How come why am I not a good Muslim? Is media I'm not the best of all women. I ask you is media. I'm not the best of all women Do you or I worship like medium worships? Yet when she gets this news when she gets this news Does she say to Allah? Why me? How come didn't I pray to you for all these years? Hmm my sisters My sisters you're pausing here for a minute Yes, these are stories in the foot and that we learned from but with that empathy put yourself in the shoes for a minute and Think about when the last time you were really upset and said something to the effect of But I pray but I wear hijab But I'm trying to raise my family right, but I try to do right by Allah But I don't lie, but I don't steal How come or maybe you didn't say it in words, but your heart rejected Your heart was upset with Allah. I ask you again. Are you or I more of a worshiper than media? The best of people Allah tests and there is real human grief and Sadness and difficulty that all of the people close to Allah the prophets and the woman of the foot and all faced They are mentioned. They're including their human emotions so that we know To stop telling each other you can't feel this grief for this long To stop saying to each other get over it already To stop saying to each other go pray more your dua isn't strong enough Your e-man isn't strong enough Ella forgive us what we say to each other what we say to our sisters what we say to our children Mela forgive us truly Maybe this is on my mind, and I'll put another plug if it's okay yesterday in the day before at Hamd-e-Dilal We finished recording the series for Ramadan From Madestan, which is the nonprofit organization and part of a holistic mental health non-profit And it's a series in Ramadan this Ramadan going to be called embracing resilience The stories of the trials and tribulations in the Quran Hopefully you'll tune in. Yeah, please please subscribe to madestan and tune in shall Allah Follow it all through Ramadan Please because we go through each of the stories of the Quran and pull out the trials and the tribulations that have happened To people so much better than us And we talk about how it is they embraced resilience so that we can embrace resilience Well, ahi they are not we are not better than them You understand what I'm trying to say And so in closing Just wrapping up here the remaining part of the story of Stina Maryam When she says To this man that's appeared in her room out of nowhere, right? And she says I She said and wondered how can I have a son when no man has ever touched me nor am I unchaste and The archangel Jibreel in the form of the man replied So will it be your Lord says it is easy for me And so he will make him a sign for humanity and the mercy from us It is a matter already decreed as Into say Allah has willed and he has already decreed what is going to happen here Don't push against other don't push against fate If Allah has willed it for you and for me You can say But don't say why me why this fate how come make it go away You see the adab and the etiquette with dua Through the story we learn so much about the adab of dua and the kind of duas are being made here And of course We know how the story ends and I'm going to wrap it up here quickly to say that she gives She's told about a son and we know who this son is going to be right? Sayed Na'isa who is unlike any other human who has ever come to earth and Until today just reflect on this for a moment until today You have people across the entire earth Right deeply maybe misguided but to Jesus and In his name and call upon him and make dua through him And you have the Muslims who inshallah have a more correct understanding of who of Sayed Na'isa is Also calling right understanding who he is You have the majority of the world between the Muslims and the Christians Understanding and loving and revering Sayed Na'isa It is something amazing This pain this difficulty that his mother went through Resulted in one of the most merciful people to all of humanity a Person who has given so much solace and light and love to humanity So sometimes when you're a dua when the tribulation that happens to you seems so Difficult and so unlike you can't even imagine. How is the story going to even end? It ends amazingly I'm not sure if this is a messenger how we're doing And so the so we're good on time that I'll say this about Sayed Na'isa Which is so amazing when you think about the lineage here you have his grandmother So it's an Ahana that we just started off with today his mother medium And you have say that me son and you have this story in which she has an amazing amount of resilience That she has to pull through to deal with the people who are going to talk against her And one of the matter stand videos. I guess I'm giving you a sneak peek. We talk about slander We talk about when people call say things about you that are untrue We talk about the difficulty of people not understanding you And so much so that she says to them right Allah says to her Be silent. Don't say anything. Don't say anything to them Literally fast from speaking and the people say to her well, how are we going to understand what you're trying to say? She just points at the baby And one of the miracles of Allah of course happens because Sayed Na'isa as a baby speaks and Defends his mother. She doesn't defend herself He defends her and it's a miracle and everyone watch. Can you imagine everyone watching this right going good on her? Subhanallah slander backbiting Horrible lies about you People say that you are in this case unchaste or maybe they say whatever they say, but it's untrue It hurts. It hurts. It hurts deeply And she had to leave she lived all her life in that temple all her life in that temple worshipped and worshipped and worshipped and worshipped And yet it was so much that she couldn't stay there and the Quran says that she had to Go away Somewhere else far from them far from their words and sometimes you have to do your hitcha-ra too Sometimes the bullying or the lies or the difficulty so much that you have to pick your child up out of that school and put them in another one Sometimes and when she did that Now comes the pain and the pangs of childhood And for those of you who've been through childbirth, you know, but imagine having no one near you No doula no nurse no doctor. No husband to squeeze his hand Nobody nobody reading put on for you on the side or in the room or outside of the room. Nobody nothing nobody You are by yourself literally under Promptory by yourself Allah is the one who sends provisions So when the pains of contraction come to her he also sends to her flowing water to drink from And when she delivers the child say Darisa You're weak you're exhausted if you've delivered, you know what I'm talking about you can't even see in front of you She'll look you're so tired so tired so tired and yet Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala tells her You know And shake the palm tree Have you ever tried to shake a puncture next time you see one? Please give it a try and if people think you're being nuts Tell them my prophet my prophet the prophet Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa sallam When he heard the tree stump that he used to lean on to give his hotba When they moved to the masjid around and they had to uproot or move the tree stump or move away from the tree stump The prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam heard it cry Because the tree stump was stump was so sad that he wouldn't be able to lean on it as he was getting up to the nimbar to give his hotba He heard it cry They say it's audible But he went to the tree stump and hugged One of the sheikh said our prophet Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa sallam was the first tree hugger So if you want to be a tree hugger too it's so So find a palm tree empathy Try to shake the palm tree and see what happens Try I want you to try homework assignment because it is not easy and if you've just delivered and you are a Depleted and you're completely by yourself So it's emotional and physical depletion And you try and then Allah reveals to you to shake the tree stump What energy do you have to even get up or to shake the tree? But Allah is the provider And as she shakes the tree stump what happens? The dates fall down and until this very day Dates are so nutritious and the fiber it and all of the great nutrients that are in it are said that a pregnant and Breastfeeding and it was part of a woman and peripartum should actually use and all women of all people Right dates are amazing But there's something very special. Do you remember how we said earlier that say the Maryam? That's in the Zachariah when he would walk in he would find out of season fruits Do you not think that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala could have just dropped the dates for her? Right in her lock if you wanted to Why shake the palm tree? We have to do our part Sisters we have to do our part So the earlier statement I made about please sign up for the classes of your that encourage and continue your Dean Take one per semester Class by class sign up here for something with put an antishweed You can't find it here find it online if you can't find in this semester go to that message You can't find this find that if he doesn't it's not your cup of tea try the next thing I'm telling you sisters. I Feel so strongly about this Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala tell us it's in a medium in a postpartum state to shake the palm tree To receive the dates that are going to nourish her and help her We have to do our part too. You can't just sit here and say osmosis This Dean is not taught by osmosis and anything that comes that is of worth Comes with some pain and with some difficulty Yeah, you agree with me Sha Allah again again Don't leave the conference here today inshallah you're inspired by all of these great speakers you're hearing Don't leave it without making the intention. Yeah, I love making me a woman of the poor and Yalla, make me like the woman who are mentioned in the Quran Those who when they make do out to you they make it sincerely and fully Even if it seems like it's distant and far away And y'all low when they complain we complain with the facts and ask for your help Speaking of that the last thing I'll share with you is a verse of the Quran talking about sitana medium that many people have asked about Because in the process of her birthing Said Na'isa she says something that many people have asked about What did she say? Yeah, lady. I mean it took up a lot of welcome to this. Yeah, I see ya. Hmm. Oh Allah I Wish That I had died before this moment and I was a thing forgotten Hmm People have asked all kind of questions about this. They've said is this not a kind of Act of odds or kind of objection to what Allah has sent her people have said is this for feeling a little suicidal People have asked is this that she's very down. Is this her not wanting what's coming her way All kinds of questions all kinds of questions and I you know, it's it's a it's a they're all good What is the tafsir say What is it the see say? Here it says very clearly from the scholars that have explained to this They have said this is not her trying to say that she doesn't want this to happen or her objecting And the loss upon Oda sending her the fate that he has sent her Rather This is basically a very painful and test in the very painful experience that is testing her as a human The part of her humanness if you will and to see it in kathir He says that this for saying that she wished to be unknown or forgotten that no one knew where she who she was is Referring to the fact that she Was calling out to Allah Sakana what's that I It was a cry of pain. It was a cry of difficulty. It wasn't a olala make me dead It was more a cry of saying this is hard and that is very human And that is very human and so I want to remind us all And if you have a very difficult time like this too or something happens in which you feel wish that you Maybe didn't didn't want to be here anymore or something to that effect Please know that we do want you here first of all and second of all that pain Is a real pain and people much better than us experience that pain For some Allah has given the provisions to carry them through it For others they need their friends and their family and their community to carry them through it and For others and you know, I'm not gonna leave you without saying this and for others You need the help of those who are trained to help you get through something like this my sisters So it's in a medium ready a lot more on her and her own mother Hanna Both made intense duas very sincere duas. They were woman of righteousness They were woman of worship and yet Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala tested them greatly And he tested their very Eman and he tested them with the things that were the most difficult for them And Allah will test us with the things that are difficult for us and it's not about the test It's about how we respond to the test. It's not about the test. So remind yourself. That's not about the test It's about how we respond to the test And when you respond to the way these beautiful woman responded Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala elevates you he gives you the provisions He sees you through and he even sends you those who will defend you Right defend your honor defend your name defend you without you having to say a thing He also Tells us through all of the stories that we talked about today That you can't actually do this alone In each of these stories you see here people show up There's it's in them. Have the dots that say the Hannah made Her daughter, which ended up being a daughter couldn't go to the temple completely by herself. Say the Zechariah showed It's a care of her and watched over her And when sit in a medium Had her difficulty and her tests show up Allah sent the archangel Jibreed himself To talk to sit in a medium And then he made the water come and the dates come and he gave a miracle miracles This child was a miraculous and spoke and defended. So say that Lisa Himself becomes the one who defends it's in a medium Sisters we can't do this alone. We can't do life alone And for some and I'll say it again what I said earlier. I'm gonna reiterate it one more time. So bear with me for some Allah carries them through some of your tests. You don't need more than that Other tests of law sends you he sends you people to show up Your say it may has and your say that he says and people of your life who show up to help Your friends your family your neighbors people that are going to carry the community And other times All of these things may not fully hold you and so he sends you the people of knowledge who know what to do Allah I'll end. Yes I'll end with the verse of the Quran where Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says clearly If you do not know then ask the people of knowledge The saloo ahlal dickley in goon tum la ta'alamo Ask the people of knowledge if you do not know I Can't in good faith send you off today from today's lecture Since we touched on so many things related to spiritual Health and spiritual wellness and mental and emotional health and mental and emotional wellness and also physical for that matter Subhanallah in good faith without telling you sisters Please make sure you seek out appropriate care and help to see you through your tests and tribulations Sometimes they are Just Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala alone and your dua and your prayers and your iman Sometimes you need the people that Allah sends you and sometimes you need the people of knowledge And the people of knowledge here means those who have trained and have helped have learned sometimes They are the shiuch the sheikh the people who have studied the item to answer your questions So you don't go to your mechanic to ask a field question about Ramadan Likewise, you don't want to go to your plumber when you're depressed my sisters Allah sends us all the provisions we need and answers all the du'as in due time But know how you respond is how exactly it is that is answered and so inshallah before we leave Please again renew. This is our third one right renew the intention. Ya Allah make me a woman of the Quran Make this month of the Quran Ramadan a month in which I devoted to the Quran and Allow me out of the alameen to someone who who become someone who can understand it to read it fluently Practice what it says and Ya Rabbi you feel like the prophet Muhammad Sallallahu alayhi wassalam a walking talking for him. Allahumma. I mean Allahumma. I mean Allahumma. I mean What a pleasure to be here with all of you today barak. Allah will be fun Well, thank you to Allah, Lord of the worlds. Wasallallahu ma ala Sayyidina Muhammad wa ala Ali he was a Hussain as-salam as-salamu alaykum wa rahmatullah wa barakatuh