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The First Family - Part 2: From Love to the Pain of Death
"Many came to the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ, asking whom he loved the most, including Ali (ra) and Fatima (ra). He had the most eloquent answer, while maintaining his character of honesty. Even though Fatima was very dear to him and his heart was very attached to her, he didn’t want to answer in a way that would hurt Ali, whom he loved as his own son. He looked at Ali and said, 'She is more beloved to me than you, but you are more precious to me than her', making them both very happy. "
In episode 8 of The Firsts, Sh. Omar Suleiman continues to talk about the love between Ali and Fatima and the love they had with Prophet Muhammad ﷺ to the pain that was felt after the passing of Prophet Muhammad ﷺ and the passing of Fatima (ra).
Transcript
This transcript was auto-generated using AI and may contain misspellings. Tonight, Inshallah Ta'ala, this one is going to go through a few different emotions because we'll go through the lives of Ali and Fatima, may Allah be pleased with them, the humanity of both of them, the marital struggles that they had, some of the difficulties while still seeing the way the prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam comforted them and cared for them, and then ultimately the death of the prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam and then the death of Fatima, may Allah be pleased with her, and the very human emotion that came out of that. Starting off though, there was this frequent pursuit of the prophet peace be upon him's love and everyone wanted to know if the prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam loved them the most, right? This is a very common trend that you find in the hadiths where people come to the prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam and say, who do you love the most? And can you imagine Ali and Fatima asking the prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam, which of us two do you love more? Right? So last week we talked about Al-Abbas and Ali and Usama ibn Zayd coming to the prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam and saying, who do you love the most? And he says Fatima, but now it's Ali and Fatima asking the prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam, by the way, who do you love more? What do you think the answer of the prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam was? Both? You know, we struggle like when you're talking, it's not like when you're talking to your kids and I love you and I love you. The prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam had the most eloquent answer. First of all, the prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam can't lie, right? His heart is attached to Fatima. He loves Fatima and Fatima is very special to him. But at the same time, he doesn't want to answer that question in a way that would hurt Ali, who he also raised like his own son, right? And he loved Ali radhiallahu anhu like his own son. He's his son. He's his cousin. He's his brother in Medina. He's so much to him. So they asked the prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam, which of us two
is more beloved to you? So he looked at Ali and he said, هي أحب إلي منك وأنت أعز علي منها It's a beautiful answer. He said, look, first of all, هي أحب إلي منك. She is more beloved to me than you. But وأنت أعز علي منها, you are more precious to me than her. So he gave them an answer that they could both take some pride in, right? You have more Izzah with me. She has more hub with me. You are more precious to me. And of course, there are certain connotations to that, what he means by that. And you are more beloved to me, O Fatima, because the prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam truly loved her that much. Now, the first problem that arises in this marriage is not that they had an argument. It's not that the poverty got to them. It's the distance from the prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam. Once they got married, realized they were poor, they were distant from the messenger salallahu alayhi wasalam. Their home was far away and they felt a distance from him. Fatima grew up as the daughter and then Umm Abiha, the mother of her father of the prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam. Ali radiallahu ta'ala anhu also felt a distance from the prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam. And if you look at an old map of Medina, you'll find that the hujurat, the apartments of the prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam, if you will, the small homes of the prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam, where you would see his grave now, so where his grave is, is actually the room of who? That's hujurat, that's the apartment of Aisha radiallahu anhu, that's where the home of the prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam and Aisha radiallahu anhu was. And then you have these small homes that run to the left side of the masjid, right? And they run two by two, taking up that area. And the house was far away from the prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam's house. Now all of the homes of the prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam actually belonged or were built on the land of one
man and his name was, and his name doesn't come up, I'm not even going to bother asking if someone knows it, mashallah, but it's a very hard name to find. His name is Haritha ibn al-Nu'man. Haritha ibn al-Nu'man. He's not that well known from the companions, but he owned a huge piece of land next to the area of the masjid. So whenever the prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam would get married, he'd give him a new extension of the land so that the prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam could have a home there. So when Ali and Fatima got married, the prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam was too embarrassed to ask Haritha for more land so that he could have a home for Fatima and Ali close to him. So Haritha saw in the prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam one day some sort of emotion, some longing, so he said to him, do you miss your daughter Fatima? And the prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam said yes, and he knew what he was indicating, he said but I was too embarrassed to ask you because you've already given us so much. So subhanallah, this is the humility of the prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam. He could snap his finger and everyone will throw everything at him, right? But he doesn't want to take advantage of the kindness of Haritha, so he said I didn't want to ask you for more. And Haritha said, by Allah, the land that I give to you is more beloved to me than the land that I keep with me. I love giving you land, you could take all the property that you want, it's okay. So he told the prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam, why don't you take this piece of land, which is right across from your house with Aisha, okay? So why don't you take that piece of land right across from your house with Aisha radiallahu anha. So the prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam smiled and he made dua for him, he prayed for him that Allah would give him a palace in paradise. So Fatima's home and Ali's home was then built adjacent to the house of the prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam and Aisha radiallahu anha. In fact, the only window that you have in those small,
if you look at the models of how those homes were built, there was only one window. The window of Aisha and the window of Fatima were facing each other, right? So it's very close to the house of the prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam. So they moved close to him. But then you had the problem of poverty. As I mentioned in the story of Ali, Ali radiallahu anhu was always poor, always in poverty, right? His whole life is defined by intense poverty and the prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam himself lived in great poverty. So it's not like the prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam made it and then left his daughter in poverty. No, the prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam himself was in deep poverty until the day of his death, right? The prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam never moved into a palace. He never ate more than a meal a day and it was usually just some dates and water. Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam was in poverty. So Ali and Fatima reached the point of extreme poverty and Ali radiallahu anhu developed back pain and Fatima radiallahu anha developed blisters in her hands because of the amount of work that they had to do just to stay afloat and she was exhausted. And so Ali radiallahu anhu said to Fatima radiallahu anha, why don't you ask the prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam if he could provide a khadim, a servant, a maid, someone to help out in the home. And Fatima radiallahu anha said that I'm too embarrassed to ask him. Ali radiallahu anhu said, why don't you just go and just inquire, just see if the prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam, you know, the prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam had high emotional intelligence. He could tell what his daughter would want or, you know, and he would be able to read it and the prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam would likely as we know his character would likely go ahead and say, yes, fine, you know, here you go. And so Fatima went to the house of the prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam after salatul fajr, after the fajr prayer the next day and found Aisha, may Allah be pleased
with her and inquired about the prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam and Aisha radiallahu anha said that the prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam had not come home yet. So he was still in the masjid doing remembrance. He was praying. He was remembering Allah. He was supplicating as he would do for a long time after the morning prayer after fajr up until the time of sunrise. So she went home. Now when the prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam came home, Aisha told the prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam that Fatima came looking for you today. Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam immediately went to the house and he knocked the door and Ali radiallahu anhu said, man, who is it? So the prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam said that it's me. Ali radiallahu anhu said, ya rasulullah intadhir. He said, oh messenger of Allah, wait. They wanted to get the house ready. It was nighttime. Okay. And they wanted to get the house ready and you know, be a little bit more presentable, right? When the messenger of God comes to the home, the prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam said, don't worry. He said, just stay as you are. Stay seated as you are. Now, if you remember last week, the house of Ali and Fatima had one bed. It was also their couch. It was also where they fed their animals from. So they literally sat up on the bed and the prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam said, don't get up. Just stay right there. And it was a cold night. Okay. So the prophet, so they were kind of wrapped in their blanket. The prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam went inside and he sat between them. And he looked at Fatima and he said, ya Fatima, oh Fatima. She said, naam, ya rasulullah. Yes, oh messenger of God. He said, jittini liyom. Did you come looking for me today? So she said, naam, ya abi. Yes, oh my father. He said, maada turidini ya Fatima. What is it that you're asking for, oh Fatima? What caused you to inquire? So she said to the messenger of Allah salallahu alayhi wasalam that I heard that maybe you had a servant or a maid or someone that could help me. Maybe there was someone that could help me because
it's become difficult in the home. The prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam said, man akhbaraki. Who told you that there might be some servants or there might be a maid or someone to be able to help you, a khadima to be able to help you. She didn't want to throw Ali under the bus because Ali was the one that told her that I think that he might be able to provide a servant or a maid or a khadim to help you. So she just said, someone told me. So the prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam said, ya Fatima, athala o'tikuma ma huwa khayrun lakuma min khadim? Oh Fatima, shall I not give you something that is greater, that is more beneficial than a servant or a maid to assist you? So they both said, of course. Now the thinking was that maybe he's going to give, you know, he's going to find a way to have multiple maids or multiple servants to help them out. The prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam was about to make this situation really good for them, right? The prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam instead said, when you go to sleep, say subhanallah 33 times, which is to glorify God. So say subhanallah 33 times, say alhamdulillah 33 times, meaning praise Allah 33 times, and say allahu akbar 34 times. Okay, that God is the greatest 34 times. So glorify him 33 times, praise him 33 times and declare his greatness 34 times, which would make a hundred. They said, naf'al ya rasoolallah, we'll do that ya rasoolallah. And then they said, well khadim, and also is there a maid or is there a servant? The prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam said, and this is powerful because it shows you the ethics and the integrity of the prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam. He said, I can't give you a khadim, I can't provide a servant for you and leave the people of Sufah, which were the homeless people that slept in the masjid. Okay, so the masjid had homeless people, those ahl as-sufah, the people that slept in the back of the masjid. He said, I can't leave
them and the orphans from the battle of Badr empty-handed. Okay, so there were orphans from the battle. The prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam said, I can't give them to, I can't help you and then leave them in their way. But the prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam said, if you say these words every night before you sleep, Allah will provide for you in ways that are far greater than anything that you're asking for. Ali radhiallahu ta'ala anhu said that I never missed, there was not a single night, a single night that I did not say those words after that. Subhanallah 33 times, Alhamdulillah 33 times, Allahu Akbar 34 times. And he said, I swear by Allah that we were increased in strength and sustenance and we never felt like we needed a khadim or needed a maid or a servant after that. That Allah had enriched us in this situation or gave us the strength so that we didn't need anything after that. Despite their poverty, they were a generous family. Of course, Fatima is like her father, Ali radhiallahu anhu is like the Prophet, my son who raised him. And so they used to give their whatever that came into their home would often leave before they could taste anything of it. And so according to some of the narrations of Tafsir, for example, the verse in Surat Al-Insan, The verses in Surat Al-Insan, chapter 76, verse 8 and 9, and they give in food or they give their food in spite of love for it to the needy, to the orphans, and to the captives. And they say, we only feed you for the pleasure of Allah. We wish not from you reward or any form of gratitude. Many of the scholars said that this was on a night that Ali and Fatima radhiallahu anhu, despite their starving, despite their hardship, that they only had a loaf of bread and some water in their home and they gave it away to a poor family that
came to ask. And so Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala related that for them. And there are different proofs of this. Ibn Al-Jawzi rahimahullah mentioned some of the proofs for this. Imam Al-Shafi'i used to refer to Ali radhiallahu anhu in some of his poetry, The one who Surat Al-Insan was revealed for, that Allah revealed that praise of people that give despite their own hardship to the orphan, to the needy, and to the captive. There are also some narrations where you have disagreements, some narrations where the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam goes to the home, finds laughter. There are different narrations and each one of them gives you a different dimension of this household and some lessons for us. One of them, the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam used to go to their home and wake them up for qiyam. Being a neighbor of the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam comes with some commitment too, right? So this father would leave his home, the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam would leave his home at night and knock on the door to remind them to get up and to pray in the middle of the night as the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam would get up and invoke his Lord in the middle of the night. So one night the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam went there and he tried to wake Ali radiyaAllahu anhu up and Ali did not wake up. So the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam told Ali the next day, he said, why didn't you wake up when I tried to wake you up for qiyam al-layl? He said, Ya Rasulallah, if Allah wanted to bring our souls back, he would have. Alright? If Allah wanted to bring our souls back, he would have. So the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam walked away and he said, Wa kaana al-insanu akthara shay'in jadala. That human beings are always argumentative. Even Ali radiyaAllahu anhu would say that the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam said, Wa kaana al-insanu akthara shay'in jadala. Human beings are always argumentative. There's also a story of Ali and Fatima getting into a disagreement. This happens in the household
of even the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam, right? A husband and a wife getting into a disagreement and you've got to have a high level of emotional intelligence to know how to diffuse it, to know what's going on. The Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam said that when I used to get into, when Aisha radiyaAllahu anhu, he once told Aisha, I know when you're upset with me. She said, how? He said, because when you're upset with me, you swear by the Lord of Abraham and when you're pleased with me, you swear by the Lord of Muhammad salallahu alayhi wasalam. So I can tell, I can tell from your sentiments, I can tell from your statements, the way that you speak, when you're upset with me. So Ali and Fatima, one night the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam went to the house of Ali and Fatima and he found Fatima there alone and she was upset. So the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam said, where is your cousin? He didn't say where is your husband? Where is your cousin? Right? He could tell that there was some, probably some friction. He read the situation right, salallahu alayhi wasalam. So she said, Ya Rasulullah, we got into a fight and Ali radiyaAllahu anhu went to the masjid to sleep in the masjid. Now this masjid is not open for marital disagreements, for you to come sleep in the masjid by the way. I'm just going to put that out there, alright. The masjid of the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam, you could go there any time of the night, but there wasn't carpet, there wasn't AC, it was dirt. So the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam walked into the masjid and he saw Ali radiyaAllahu anhu sleeping in the corner and his top garment had come off and Ali radiyaAllahu anhu had dirt all on his back, sand on his back and he was sleeping. So the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam went up to him, he didn't wake him up and you know, threaten him. He didn't wake him up and you know, the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam did not play angry father here. He could have, I mean he loves Fatima and this is a part of justice, right, that you have to have a sense of justice. In-laws in particular, this is where father-in-law and mother-in-law can be very unhelpful when it's my daughter, my son instead of the best interest of trying
to make the marriage the best possible, right. So this is the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam's version of in-law interference. He goes up to Ali radiyaAllahu anhu, he starts knocking the dirt off of his back, he sits him up and he puts his shirt back on him and he says, Qum ya aba turab, sit up, oh father of dirt, instead of Abu Talib, oh Abu Turab. And Ali radiyaAllahu anhu started laughing and the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam was joking with him, right. So the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam would joke with Ali and call him Abu Turab and that was his favorite nickname, right. And that's actually where the story originates from that the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam is knocking the dirt off of his back, cleaning him up. He says, Qum ya aba turab, sit up, oh Abu Turab and he says, go back to your wife, go back home, right. So this was the way the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam interfered, if you will, in the life of Ali and Fatima to make things better, okay, to diffuse the situation. There's also a situation that arises after Fatih Mecca, after the conquest of Mecca. Now, back in those days, polygamy was primarily to establish links between tribes, right. So it was this person, this noble man, marries someone from this tribe and that brings the two tribes together and especially is done after war, right, to bring two tribes together, like the case of Ben al-Mustalaq and Juwayriya and others that you find in the Sila. This was the Arab custom, right, where a person would be asked to marry, a noble man from one tribe is asked to marry a woman from another tribe and that brings together two tribes and solidifies their relationships. So after Fatih Mecca, the tribe of Abu Jahl, which was Banu Mahzum, Banu Mahzum and Banu Hashim were close, right. So this was the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam's tribe and that
powerful tribe and they had a lot of heat before Islam, right. I mean, when Islam happens because Abu Jahl tortured the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam, he was the pharaoh of this nation and so they proposed to Ali, they said, why doesn't Ali marry, and this was a joint effort if you will, from some of the elders of the tribes, right. They said, why doesn't Ali radiallahu anhu marry Fatima bint Abu Jahl. Abu Jahl had a daughter named Fatima. And that would bring the two tribes together. Now when Fatima radiallahu anhu even heard that that was suggested, it hurt her. Humanity, right, it's her humanness. And it hurt the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam that she had caught wind that that suggestion was put out there and it hurt him that she was hurt. So the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam, when he heard, he said, listen, I'm not going to make haram what Allah made halal. He said, but innama Fatima bid'atun minni yudhini maa adhaha. He said, Fatima is a part of me. What hurts her hurts me. What hurts her hurts me. And he said, it's not befitting that a person would be married to the daughter of the Prophet of Allah and the enemy of Allah at the same time, the pharaoh of the ummah and the Prophet of Allah at the same time. So the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam stepped in, he expressed the humanity of it, the emotion of it. And there are some things that the scholars mentioned. They said, imagine Fatima radiyaAllahu anha saw Abu Jahl torture her father. Right? Saw Abu Jahl torture the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam. She was the one that would clean his wounds from Abu Jahl. And Ibn Hajar rahimahullah said that this incident occurred after the conquest of Mecca. At that time, none of the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam's daughters were still alive except for her. She'd lost her mother. She lost her sisters. And so anything that would exasperate her grief and jealousy was something that was not looked upon. And that just like her mother who had perfect faith Khadija radiyaAllahu anha, it was not befitting that anyone else would be married to Ali radiyaAllahu ta'ala anhu. So the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam stepped in, right?
And the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam expressed that pain. Now this was again the custom of the time, but it shows you, right, that things can hurt people at those times, that there was a human sentiment to that. And the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam acknowledged that pain that Fatima radiyaAllahu anha felt. But he wasn't unjust. Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam did not come in and say haram. He said, listen, yudhini ma'adhaha, she's me and I am her. It hurts her what hurts her hurts me. And that's enough, right? Ali radiyaAllahu anhu did not pursue it or anything like that. But just the hint of that hurt her. And there was no question of the love of that relationship. And I want to make that very clear. There was absolutely no question of the closeness of Ali and Fatima. May Allah be pleased with them both. In fact, you start to find now, you dig into their relationship, the depth of that love, right? And that's something that also is to be told. That there was a deep love between both of them that formulated over the next 10 years. There's actually Ali radiyaAllahu anhu was a poet. And I'm gonna, you know, this lesson is going to end with a very painful poem. But this one's not. Ali radiyaAllahu anhu used to author love poetry for Fatima radiyaAllahu anha. Right? And so we all need to be more poetic. Ali radiyaAllahu anhu once saw Fatima radiyaAllahu anha using what was known as the siwak, which is the toothbrush. Now the siwak comes from what tree? I'm gonna ask all the Bedouins here. From the Araq tree. So siwak is, now it's on Amazon for like 30 bucks. It's a Moroccan toothbrush. It's just from the Araq tree. You could go to Mecca, Medina and just grab a whole bunch of them, right? And they talk about all the amazing health benefits of the Moroccan toothbrush. It just sounds more exotic to say the Moroccan toothbrush. It's a siwak. It's from the Araq tree. And Ali radiyaAllahu anhu used to author poetry for Fatima radiyaAllahu anha.
And so this was one of, this was a very powerful one because it shows you his eloquence. Ali radiyaAllahu anhu saw Fatima using a siwak. And he said to the siwak, he said, Hadhita ya'ud al-araki bi thaghriha. Ama khifta ya'ud al-araki araka? Law kunta min ahli al-qitari qataltuka. Ma faaza minni ya siwaku siwaka. It's a powerful Arab. I mean, by the way, for him, I would have to like, I could never come up with that. I'm not even gonna say I would have to. It's impossible. It'd take a lifetime to come up with something that eloquent. But Ali played with the words to express his love for Fatima radiyaAllahu anha. He says, Hadhita ya'ud al-araki bi thaghriha. He's like, wait a minute. You know, it's not just the jealousy of Fatima for Ali. He said, Hadhita ya'ud al-araki bi thaghriha. Oh, stick of the Araq tree, how dare you? How dare you? And then he says, Ama khifta ya'ud al-araki araka? Weren't you afraid, oh stick of the Araq, that Araq that I would see you? Law kunta min ahl al-qitari qataltuka. He said, if you were a person to be killed, I would fight you. I would kill you. Ma thaza minni ya siwaku siwaka. No one has escaped me, oh siwaka, which means other than you. Fatima radiyaAllahu anha, this made her, I mean, she was the one that actually felt extremely treasured and touched by it. This wasn't like Ali radiyaAllahu anhu being crazy and going into a rage in a fit. This was his way of expressing his love and his ghira for her in their tradition and using the eloquence that he had. So what does it look like for the next 10 years? Obviously Medina as a whole, whatever the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam goes through, they go through as well. So it wasn't just the poverty. The Battle of Uhud, Fatima radiyaAllahu anha was pregnant with her first child. What was his name? Al-Hassan radiyaAllahu anhu.
So Fatima was pregnant with Hassan during the Battle of Uhud and she was at the battle serving the injured. And Fatima radiyaAllahu anha actually took care of the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam after his injuries in Uhud. We know that the Messenger of Allah salallahu alayhi wasalam was injured severely in the Battle of Uhud. That year, it was Ramadan of the third year after hijrah that Al-Hassan radiyaAllahu anhu was born. If you remember the khutbah when Hassan was born, what did Ali name him? I talked about it Friday khutbah. Harb, he named him war. And the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam came back and he said, No, no, his name is not Harb. His name is not going to be war. His name is going to be Hassan. Hassan means goodness. It means excellence. It means a source of good, right? Hassan radiyaAllahu anhu was special in many ways. For one, no one looked more like the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam than Hassan radiyaAllahu anhu. And there is a narration where Abu Bakr picked up Al-Hassan. He was throwing him in the air as a kid and he said to him, You look more like your grandfather than your father, right? So his shabah, his resemblance was of the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam even more than Ali radiyaAllahu ta'ala anhu. He looked more like his grandfather than his father. The Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam used to love him. He used to... Al-Hassan radiyaAllahu anhu would... And I want you to remember this next time you see it. Al-Hassan would always jump on the Prophet's back in sujood. So when the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam would make sajda, prostrate, Al-Hassan radiyaAllahu anhu would come and attack him, jump on his back. Now kids, that's not an excuse to take too long jumping on his back. But he would sit on, he would get on his back and the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam would prolong his sujood when Al-Hassan was on his back. So he'd stay in prostration while Al-Hassan was on his back. And when the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam used to see him, he used to hold him and put him in his lap and he used to make dua for him. He used to pray for him often.
Al-Hussain radiyaAllahu anhu was born the very next year, the fourth year after hijrah. What did Ali name him? He named him Harb again. He named him war. Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam said, No, his name is Hussain, which means little Hassan. Okay, so another source of goodness. So the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam took naming very seriously. And Al-Hussain radiyaAllahu anhu also just becomes a source of great joy for the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam. And this family of Ali and Fatima becomes four that are extremely precious to the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam. And there is a narration. They said that Al-Hassan radiyaAllahu anhu resembled the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam most from his upper body, meaning his face and his arms and things of that sort. They said Al-Hussain radiyaAllahu anhu had the same legs as the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam. So he resembled the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam in his own way. And both of them were always on the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam. He used to be giving the khutbah, he'd be giving the sermon and the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam would see Al-Hassan and Hussain. He paused the khutbah, he'd get down from the pulpit, grab both of them, give the khutbah sitting down with Al-Hassan and Hussain in his lap. Right? So think about that imagery. Okay? One of my favorite hadiths in this regard to show their closeness. And there's so many hadith by the way about their closeness. Aisha radiyaAllahu anha, she said that one day the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam went out wearing a cloak, a striped cloak, which was a wide jubbah. So it was like a very wide black cloak that the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam was wearing. So Al-Hassan radiyaAllahu anhu ran up to the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam. So the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam, he sat down and he wrapped Al-Hassan in the cloak. Then Hussain ran to the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam, so the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam opened his cloak, and he put both of them in the jubbah playing with them. And then Fatima, his daughter, the mom came,
and the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam extended his right and put Fatima under the cloak as well. And then Ali came, and the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam extended his cloak, and he put all four of them under his jubbah. Right? And just to show love, right? Just in the moment, just to show love. And while he was sitting with them, the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam recited, innama yureedu allahu liyudhhiba ankum ar-rijsa ahl al-bayt, wayu tathhirakum tatheera. This is in Sahih Muslim, that Allah only desires to remove from you any type of impurity, O people of the household, and purify you through that which is purifying. And he made dua for them. But that's the image, right? The Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam holding all four of them tight after they were born. Fatima radhiallahu anha, the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam used to come to the house, and he used to call out, he used to say to Fatima, Uda'udi ibnayya, call my two sons for me. I want to see my two sons. I want to see al-Hasan and al-Husayn. So Fatima radhiallahu anha, she would dress them up cutely, and they'd run to the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam, and he would squeeze them, and the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam would smell their hair. Right? Like it's, that's love, right? To just show that love that he had for them. And he would often pray for them. May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala be pleased with them both. So that's just a very special relationship that the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam. You now see another element, which is the Prophet as a grandfather. Right? And what he was as a grandfather to them. And then Zaynab radhiallahu ta'ala anha, Zaynab was born in the fifth of Dhul Hijjah. Umm Kulthum was born in the sixth. I keep saying Dhul Hijjah, after Hijrah, I'm sorry. The fifth after Hijrah, meaning the fifth year in Medina. And then Umm Kulthum radhiallahu anha was born the sixth year after Hijrah. And then they had another son who died at birth. And his name was, and the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam named him Al-Muhassin.
So a smaller version of Hassan Hussein, Al-Muhassin, who actually died at the time of birth. And so their family rounded out in these four children. And Ibn Abbas radhiallahu ta'ala anhu, he said that the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam said, Ahibbullaha lima yaghthukum min ni'mihi. The Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam said, Love Allah, love God for what He nourishes you of His blessings. So love Allah for the blessings that He provides to you. Wa ahibbuni bi hubbillah. And love me due to the love of Allah. And then the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam says, Wa ahibbu ahla bayti li hubbi. And love the people of my household, love my family for your love for me. Okay, or so because of my love for them. So love Allah because of what He gives you. You love me because, and they all love the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam, you love me because of the love of Allah. And then you love these children, this family of mine, because of my love for them as well and your love for me. The Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam was once carrying al-Hasan radiallahu ta'ala and he was also a sahih Muslim and he said, Allahumma inni uhibbuhu. Oh Allah, know that I love him. Fa ahibbah. So love him as well. Wa ahbib man yuhibbu. And love those who love him. So this is the type of dua, the type of supplication that the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam would make for them. He said salallahu alayhi wasalam, another authentic hadith, man ahabba al-Hasana wal-Husayna faqad ahbabani, wa man abghadahuma faqad abghadani. He said salallahu alayhi wasalam, whoever loves these two, al-Hasan wal-Husayn, loves me and whoever hates them or angers them, hates me. This was also a house of great laughter. The Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam would often pass by their house
and he would hear their laughter and the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam would inquire, would inquire about their laughter and say, what is it that made you laugh so that he could laugh with them? So this was, you know, Ali and Fatima had a very, had a relationship where they used to joke a lot. And this is one of the sifat, actually one of the attributes that's mentioned of their marriage in several of the books. And so Ali radiyallahu anhu said that Fatima radiyallahu anha kept on teasing him and saying that she's older than him. Ali was very young when he got married, right? So she would tease him and say, I'm older than you. And Ali radiyallahu anhu would insist that no, he's older than her. Now back then, by the way, there's actually some perspective to this. Back then, you know, and some of you could actually relate to this. A lot of people don't know their birthdays from where they came from, right? Like it wasn't really a thing, right? So back then it was very conceivable that you don't know the year, you're born either this year or that year, somewhere around this month or that month, right? That's actually a thing. So Fatima would mess with Ali radiyallahu anhu and say, I'm older than you. And Ali radiyallahu anhu would laugh about it. And that's when the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam saw them. And Ali radiyallahu anhu used to make funny poems for her as well that would make her laugh frequently. So Ali radiyallahu anhu and Fatima had a very loving relationship as well when it came to the laughter that came between those two. Now the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam has to maintain as we said a delicate relationship between or with both of them. And you realize that the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam also called Ali his brother and Umm Ayman radiyallahu anha asked the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam why he would still call him his brother. And the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam said because I chose him for me after the hijrah. I chose him to be my brother after the hijrah. So he maintained a relationship with Ali radiyallahu anhu in that regard and maintained that relationship with Fatima as his daughter.
Now there's something to be said about this that we talked about the story of Ali and the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam joking with each other right over the dates and the date seeds. I think two halaqas ago. There's something about the father presence here. The age gap between him and Ali and the fact that he still treats Ali like an adult like a brother. He consults Ali on his most sensitive matters, talks to him about things, loves him, shows him that type of relationship. He doesn't belittle Ali radiyallahu ta'ala anhu or get in the way of the marriage between Ali and Fatima in any way whatsoever. Now just getting to sort of that love and kind of getting to the end of this. That position of Fatima radiyallahu anha and that position of Ali radiyallahu anhu was well known to everyone. But I want to specifically talk about Fatima post, right? We're post the marriage of Fatima, post her having Hasan, Hussein, Zaynab and Umm Kulthum. And Aisha radiyallahu anha, she narrates this that the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam had asked permission to enter in once. And the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam was with her. And Aisha radiyallahu anha was wearing a wool dress. The narration mentions that. And so she came in and the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam told Fatima radiyallahu ta'ala anha that, Do you love what I love? And she said, Yes. So he said to Fatima, Do you not love what I love? She said, Of course. He said, Fa ahibbi hadhi. So he told Fatima radiyallahu anha to love Aisha radiyallahu anha. So that that's also that harmony that the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam was able to strike in general where his favoritism, If you will, or the way that he clearly favored certain people did not lead to him wronging people. And he always tried to maintain as much of a cohesion as possible.
Now, there are two narrations that kind of go to that last moment of that special relationship between the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam and Fatima radiyallahu anha. One of them is when the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam came home after a journey outside of Medina, And this was towards the end. The Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam did what he always did. He went to the masjid first and he prayed his two rak'as and then he came to, he went to his home. And Fatima radiyallahu anha, again, the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam, even after Fatima got married, He would visit her first before his own spouse. Right? He'd first go to Fatima. He got a check in with the with the daughter first, right? And then he'd move on. So Fatima radiyallahu anha welcomed him. She did what she always did. She kissed his head. She kissed his hands, gave him his place as the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam would do when she walked in a room. He'd kiss her forehead, put her in his seat, right? That special relationship and she started to cry. And the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam said, why are you crying? And she said to the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam, She said, you're pale, your clothes are shabby, and you're not eating. This is still Umm Abiha, this is the mother of her father. So she's upset because she sees the deterioration of the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam physically, right? That the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam would not eat. He'd go out hungry many times and he refused to ask, He refused to eat to his filth salallahu alayhi wasalam. And she started to cry and this was the same girl that wiped the camel guts off of his back and cried in Mecca. This was her upbringing. Her childhood was crying because of the stress of the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam. So once again, the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam comforts her and he says to her, Ya Fatima, don't cry because Allah has sent your father with a mission, which he will cause to reach every single house on the face of this earth,
whether it be in the towns or the villages or the tents in the deserts. Don't cry because this message that has consumed me and consumed us in these difficult moments, this message is going to reach every single household in the world. It's going to spread. It's okay. It's going to be worth it at the end of the day. So the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam, just like he comforted Fatima in Mecca and said, لا تبكي فإن الله ناصر أباكي. Don't cry. Allah is going to support your father. Allah is going to give victory to your father. He chose something special that Fatima radiyaAllahu anha understood. This is a girl, this is a woman who perfects her faith, right? So her attachment to Islam is not just because her father is the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam. She has perfect iman. This is a woman of prayer, a woman of supplication, a woman of devotion, a woman who has her own special relationship with Allah. So when the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam says that, Look! This is going somewhere that Allah is going to make this special and it's going to reach places and you shouldn't feel sad. It's okay. That was something that would comfort Fatima radiyaAllahu anha. Now the last moment though, it's something really to capture. Aisha radiyaAllahu anha describes the dying of the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam, right? And you know, no matter how many angles you talk about the death of the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam from, each one is very unique and each one gives a different layer of what the death of the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam meant to that community. And Aisha radiyaAllahu anha, she describes the moment where the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam's fever, his pain, his sickness had reached such a point that the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam was in and out of consciousness. He was sweating. He was burning from his fever salallahu alayhi wasalam, and the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam could not walk at that point. And Fatima radiyaAllahu anha, she walked into the room.
Now imagine, the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam, every time Fatima would walk into the room, what does he do? Gets up, holds her hand, sits her in his place, kisses her, honors her. He can't do that. He's sick. He can't move salallahu alayhi wasalam. So Aisha radiyaAllahu anha, she says that the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam, he tried to rise up and he says, Marhaban bi ibnati, welcome to my beautiful daughter. And he smiled salallahu alayhi wasalam, and she said that he showed more energy in that moment than he did in that entire period of his passing. He exerted himself more to greet her when she walked into the room than he had in the entire last days of his life salallahu alayhi wasalam, where he was dying and he was struggling. Right? And that's the show of strength and honor and love for his daughter. And then he told Fatima radiyaAllahu anha to come. And he told her, he signaled to sit to his right side. And then he whispered something into her ear and Fatima radiyaAllahu anha started to cry heavily. Right? She started to weep. And then the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam said this, he asharab yadihi once again, said, come down. So she came and he whispered something into her ear and she laughed. And then she embraced him. So that was the last time that they actually embraced. She left the room in joy and it was strange. Aisha radiyaAllahu anha asked Fatima, what did he say to you? She said, I'm not telling you. It's between me and my father. This is us. It's a secret at that point. Right? This is special. This was a moment that she just shared with her father. She wasn't ready to share it with anyone else at that time. Right? And then later on Fatima radiyaAllahu anha told Aisha radiyaAllahu anha, remember what you asked me? And she said, yes.
So she shared with Aisha what the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam told her for the very last time. These two have been through so much together. Right? This was Khadija's, a piece of Khadija and the piece of the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam. Bidding farewell, and the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam is leaving this world and Fatima has lost her mom, lost her sisters, lost everybody. Right? It's now it's the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam and this is her father, but everything to her. And she said that the first time the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam called me down, my father told me that I'm not going to live past this. This is it. Right? So I'm going to die. And that was something that was so intense. So I'm going to die and that was something that was so inconceivable to so many people, even though it says in the Quran, Innaka Mayyit, you will die and they will die as well. You're a human being, you will. But the thought of the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam dying, he was so big in their eyes. They couldn't imagine his death. They just could not conceive of the possibility, even though they knew it's in the Quran twice. Right? Afain mata aw qutil, if he dies or if he's killed. Right? I mean, it's in the Quran. But when he told her that I'm not going to live past this, Fatima started to weep immediately. Second time the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam says, come back. And he tells her, you will be the first one to die after me. That's a strange thing to make someone laugh. 27 year old young mother. She's only 27, by the way. Young woman. And the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam tells her, you're the first one that will die after me and join me. That's the part that makes her happy. That I'm about to leave, but you're coming too. You're not sick. Nothing's wrong with you. I'm not praying against you, but the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam is speaking, obviously, wa mayy antiqua anil hawa, he doesn't speak from a place of vanity or from a place of desire. The Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam speaks a divine revelation.
You're going to die after me. You're going to die after me. And that caused Fatima to laugh. That's how much she loved her father. And that's how much she wanted to be with her father salallahu alayhi wasalam. And when the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam died, now, how did they know that the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam died? This is a very human story at this point. Aisha radiallahu anha screamed. The Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam died in her lap when Jibreel came in. And the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam lit up and he raised his hand to the sky and he said, ar-rafiq al-a'la bar-rafiq al-a'la, I choose the companionship of the most high. Those are the last words of the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam, I choose the companionship of the most high. And his hand fell, Aisha radiallahu anha screamed. And the first person to hear it was Fatima because she was sitting in the house right next door. And when Fatima radiallahu anha heard that, this is what she responded with. She said, ya abata min rabbihi ma adna. Ya abata ila Jibreel anna na'a, ya abata jannatul firdawsi ma'wa. Beautiful words, powerful words. Said, ya abata, oh my dear father, how close you are now to your Lord. Min rabbihi ma adna, how close you are now to your Lord. Ya abata ila Jibreel anna na'a, oh my dear father, to Gabriel, to Jibreel, we announce your death. Ya abata jannatul firdawsi ma'wa. Oh my dear father, jannatul firdawsi is now your abode. The highest garden in paradise is now your abode. Those were the words of Fatima. Ali radiallahu anhu was stunned. He didn't say a word for days. Ali could not speak after the death of the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam. People process differently, right? Ali radiallahu anhu so eloquent, couldn't find a word to utter in the immediate aftermath of the death of the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam.
Anas radiallahu ta'ala anhu, he said that when we buried the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam, as we finished burying him, Fatima was standing behind us when we buried the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam. And she asked the sahaba, how did you bring yourselves to put dirt on my father's face? This is human coming, you know, the humanity coming out, the emotion coming out. But how could you put dirt on the face of the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam? How could you bury him? Like how did you come? How could you do that? How did you find the ability to do that? And Anas radiallahu ta'ala anhu says that I said to her, wallahi ankarna qulubana. Said that I swear by Allah, the only way we were able to do it was to deny our hearts, which means we numbed ourselves. We had to be robotic to be able to place the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam in the ground and to put dirt on the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam and bury him in the ground. Anas radiallahu ta'ala anhu says, she looked at me, she started crying, she turned away and she left. She could not perceive or come to terms with what was happening or the sadness of it. And she really did not have the desire to live after his death salallahu alaihi wasalam. I mean, it's very clear. It's not just the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam telling her. And there are many things to talk about here. You know, you see people that love each other like sometimes elderly, one person, you know, is elderly and dies and then quickly after the spouse dies. Sometimes you find that type of relationship that's very very different. Allah knows best. But Fatima radiallahu anha after the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam died, immediately went sick. Immediately went sick. Immediately became ill. Right? It did not take but a few days for her to become ill as well. And you have to ask yourself, why did she love her father so much?
Did the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam spoil her with wealth and riches and throw things at her, use his position of power to privilege her? Or was it that intense love that the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam showed to her? Right? That was something. And that's a lesson for parents as well. The Prophet as a father, the Prophet as a parent, that what you give to your child of love is so much more than anything else you can give to them. How much did the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam give her of himself despite being the messenger of Allah, despite having all that he had on his plate that made her love him so much? So when did she die? Radiallahu ta'ala anha. It was the first Ramadan after the death of the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam. Imagine Medina, first Ramadan after the death of the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam. You know when you talk about anniversaries or things that come up or whatever it is after the death of a person that bring back all the pain? Ramadan in Medina and the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam is alive, leading you in prayer. How, I mean, look at our masjid in Ramadan. How amazing was Ramadan with the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam amongst the people? And this is the first time that they're going to have to go through Ramadan and the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam is dead, he's buried. Fatima radiallahu ta'ala anha, in the very first Ramadan, as that Ramadan came around, it was the third day of Ramadan that she goes out to her courtyard, so meaning right outside the home. She lays at the heavens smiling. She looks up at the skies and she's smiling. Now that Asmaa bint Umais, she called for Asmaa bint Umais, may Allah be pleased with her. And she told Asmaa bint Umais, she said, listen, when I die, I want to be buried at night so that not too many people come and no one will see my figure.
And you know, what she meant by that was that she wanted a very modest, a very modest parting. Right, and some of the scholars said she was of course known for her haya, she was known for her modesty and she literally meant it as that I don't want my figure to be exposed. So bring a cloth that is wide that will cover me and let me be buried at night so that very few people would attend so that it wouldn't cause, it wouldn't have too many people around at that time and Allah would conceal me. So Asmaa told Um Salama radiallahu anha, Um Salama was one of those that furnished the house of Fatima, right, and Ali, may Allah be pleased with him. So Um Salama brought her a cloth from Habesha, from Abyssinia, from the migration to Abyssinia. That was a very thick cloth, concealed her with it and she was happy with it. She looked at that cloth, she said, this is good. And then she called for Ali radiallahu anhu. So her last moments are actually with her family, radiallahu anha. And she called for Ali radiallahu anhu and they shared some moments of love. And she actually told Ali radiallahu anhu that I want you, she actually told Ali who she wants him to marry after she dies, to take care of the kids. So she told Ali radiallahu anhu to marry Umama, who was the daughter of her sister Zainab, so that she could be a caretaker for the kids. She said, she's a motherly woman, she's a loving woman. So when I die, I want you to marry Umama because she would take care of the kids. She would take care of Al Hasan, Husayn, Zainab, Um Kulthum. And that's just her thinking about her children. She embraces her family and subhanAllah, she leaves this world, laying out, looking at the heavens and the angel coming to her and taking her with a nur on her face, with a smile on her face,
with just complete peace, fulfilling what the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam had said, which is that she would be the first of the companions to die after the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam. The very first person to leave this earth from the family of the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam and from his close companions that would join the Messenger salallahu alaihi wasalam after his death. Ali radiallahu anhu just lost the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam. Now he lost Fatima. And Ali radiallahu anhu assisted in the washing of her, and he cried frequently at her washing. And Ali radiallahu anhu had to have the grueling experience of doing what the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam did with Khadija, which was to actually get in the grave and receive her body and to bury her. And it was extremely difficult on Ali radiallahu anhu to do so, and Ali actually led the janazah of his wife Fatima radiallahu ta'ala anha. And this is going back to the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam burying Khadija. It feels very similar, right? I mean that closeness, that tightness between these two. And Ali radiallahu anhu, he actually said, he said, nothing exhausted me more in my entire life than the death of my two beloved ones within that short period. I lost the two most important people to me in my life within that very short period. Ali radiallahu anhu said, everything I've been through in life, battles, wars, khilafah, fitna, all of it. He said, nothing consumed me and took more from me than the death of the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam and Fatima radiallahu anha in that very small period of time. And this is how we end on a sad note because, but there's something to be said about this that when you read the poem that Ali radiallahu anhu recited at the graveside of Fatima, there's nothing happy about it.
There's nothing about it that is hopeful. It's just pain. It's raw pain. When you read what Ali radiallahu anhu said at the graveside of Fatima radiallahu anha, but that shows you that love and that humanity and that rahmah. The Prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam said, that's the mercy of the heart. That is mercy, right? Remember when his own son died and the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam was crying and they said, you know, how could you be crying? He said, it's rahmah. This is the compassion that Allah puts in our hearts for one another. And so the words of Ali when Fatima died, pure pain. I mean, unfiltered, raw pain. There's nothing else that's given except for pain. It's a very strong poem. He had finished burying her. He stood by her graveside. And he recited the following. He said, مالي وقفت على القبور مسلما He said, what is wrong with me standing at the graveside saying salam to the one who has passed? قبر الحبيب فلم يرد جوابي The grave of my lover, but she's not responding to my greeting. And he calls out and he says, أحبيب ما لك لا ترد جوابنا My lover, why are you not responding to my salam? أنسيت بعد خلة الأحباب Have you forgotten all of the intimate moments that were shared between the two of us? And then he actually says in this poem, he starts to respond with what Fatima would be saying back to him.
And he says, قال الحبيب وكيف لي بجوابكم My beloved one responded and said, how can I respond to you? وأنا رهين جنادل وترابي And I've become a prisoner. I've become now consumed by stones and by dirt. And he cried رضي الله عنه And he responded again. And he's still speaking. He says, أكلت تراب محاسني فنسيتكم The dirt has consumed my beauty. And that is why I have moved on. وحجبت عن أهلي وعن أترابي And I've been veiled from my family and my beloved ones. فعليكم من السلام تقطعت مني ومنكم خلة الأحباب And so he said, and so she responded and she said, And so my salam back to you and to them, meaning to those that I've left behind. Those intimate moments have now passed. These are painful words. They are raw expressions of death. There is nothing about them that is, we'll meet again in Jannah. Nothing about them that I'm okay. It's pure pain. And that is actually an expression of that love, that deep love that Ali رضي الله عنه had for Fatima رضي الله عنها. Now Ali رضي الله عنه did not go back on his faith. He didn't become, you know, resentful to Allah. He knows the way that this works. He knows the process of death and afterlife. But that doesn't mean that he didn't feel pain. And I think that's actually something that's very important. When we lose our loved ones, we're not expected to not feel pain. That's not what sabr is. Sabr is not, patience is not to not feel pain and not feel love and not feel that distance when you lose your loved ones. Patience is to not say anything. لا نقول إلا ما يرضي الله
Not to say anything except that which is pleasing to Allah and to use that pain to do good for them. Like the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم did with Khadijah رضي الله عنها, visiting her friends, spending on her behalf, maintaining those relationships. That's what it is. And I think it's only befitting that you go through that. You just see it's just love and pain. And Ali is actually رضي الله عنه imagining a conversation between him and Fatima at that point. And that's the deep love that he had for her رضي الله تعالى عنها. Of course, what we know, what the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم mentioned of the gathering of the souls of the believers, we have no doubt being that they're both from those promised Al-Jannah, that Al-Hasan and Al-Hussein are سيدة شباب أهل الجنة, the masters of the youth of the people of Paradise, that they are gathered again in the presence of the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم in أرواح المؤمنين, in the realm of the righteous souls. We ask Allah to gather us with them and to allow us to be like them. We ask Allah سبحانه وتعالى to put that love and that mercy in our hearts and to put that رضا with Allah, that pleasure with Allah's decree in our hearts and to unite us with our families and to unite us with this blessed family in the highest level of Jannatul Firdaus. اللهم آمين And again, Allah سبحانه وتعالى This was a deep dive into that life, that family of the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم. And I hope that inshallah it gives you a lot of perspective, a lot of perspective for how we carry ourselves. You know, Kobe Bryant died two days ago, and there's a lot of people talking about death now, right? And this should give us some perspective. This should give us a lot of perspective, right? When people talk about death, what type of, how do we want to go and who do we want to be with? أنت مع من أحببت, you are with the one that you love.
So I pray that if Allah look at us and find us to be amongst those who deeply love the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم and his family, that that is a sign, bismillah, that Allah would gather us with him and his family, his companions. Allahumma ameen.
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