Please
Allow Me 5 Minutes & Forgive Me
by Nabil
Assalaamu Alaikum Wa Rahmatullahi Wa Barakatu,
Verily all Praise and thanks are due to
Allah alone and may the Peace and Blessings of Allah be upon His messenger.
With what proceeds.
Dear Brothers/Sisters, I never actually
wrote to you before, I usually try to forward e-mails I feel might help
you achieve good in this life as well as the next, but I have had stuff
hanging on my chest and I want to share it with you. First let me start
by mentioning a quick story about Hafsa Bint Umar (Radhiullah 3n Huma).
She was the daughter of Umar ibn al-Khattab. She was beautiful and
a pious women. She got married to Khunis ibn Hudhafa Ibn Qays
as-Sahami who was from Quraish. He was a part of the two emigrations
(Abyssinia and Madina). He fought in Badr and Uhud. In the
latter battle he was fatally wounded and died shortly thereafter
(Radhiullah 3nhu). Hafsa was 18 by that time.
Umar was depressed for his daughter's affliction
who became a widow at such a young age. Whenever he went home and
saw his sad daughter, he grieved. After a long period of thinking
he decided to choose a husband for her to provide her with what she had
lost of repose along 6 months or more.
He first choose Abu Bakr (Radhiullah 3nhu)
the dearest person to the Prophet (Sallahu 3laihi Wasallam). Umar
at once went to Abu Bakr to offer him his daughter for marriage.
Umar thought that Abu Bakr would not refuse to marry a young pious woman
who was the daughter of the man by whom Allah supported Islam. Having
sympathetically listened to him, Abu Bakr did not respond.
Umar went back with a broken heart and
almost did not believe what had happened. He then went to Uthman
Ibn Affan whose wife, Ruqayya (Radhiullah 3nha), the daughter of the Prophet
(Sallahu 3laihi Wasallam) had recently died. Having offered him his
daughter to marry, he apologized by saying, "I think I would not like to
marry at the present time."
Umar's gloom Increased by Uthman's refusal,
which followed by Abu Bakr's. He became angry with his to companions.
He then went to the Prophet of Allah (Sallahu 3laihi Wasallam) complaining
about Abu Bakr and Uthman. Therupon the Prophet (Sallahu 3laihi Wasallam)
smiled and said "Hafsa will get married to someone who is better than Uthman
and Uthman will get Married to someone who is better than Hafsa." (Bukhari)
Accordingly Umar was elated to receive
such a great honor which he never thought about. He went off to tell
whomever he met. When Abu Bakr met him, he realized the source of
his joy. Therefore, he congratulated him and apologized by saying,
"Do not be angry with me ya Umar. The Prophet has mentioned Hafsa
before and I could not disclose the Prophet's (Sallahu 3laihi Wasallam)
secret. Had he left her, I would have married her. "
All people in Madina was pleased with the
Prophet's marriage to Hafsa bint Umar. It was contracted in the month
of Sha'ban in the 3rd year of Hijrah. They blessed the marriage of
Uthman to Umm Kulthum bint Muhammad (Sallahu 3laihi Wasallam) in the month
of Jumada al-Akhirah in the same ear as well. Thus, Hafsa joined
the rank of the Prophet's pure wives, mothers of the faithful who were
by then, Sawdah and Aisha (Radhiullah 3n Huma).
Among the other wives of the Prophet (Sallahu
3laihi Wasallam), Aisha was the most intimate and closest one to Hafsa.
His father, once said to her, "How would you be like Aisha and how would
your father be like hers?
It is Hafsa and Aisha who backed up each
other against the Prophet (Sallahu 3laihi Wasallam). Consequently
Allah the almighty said: "If you two turn in repentance to Allah, your
hearts are indeed so inclined; but of you back up each other against him,
truly Allah is his protector and Gabriel." {Tagrim:4}
It is narrated that the Prophet (Sallahu
3laihi Wasallam) divorced Hafsa once when she backed up against him.
then he (Sallahu 3laihi Wasallam) took her back according to Jabreel's
command: "Take Hafsa back; she fasts and prays in the night all the time."
Hafsa realized the gravity of what she had done to her noble husband when
she disclosed his secret. But after the Prophet forgave her, she
lived in tranquility and repose again.
When the Prophet (Sallahu 3laihi Wasallam)
died and Abu Bakr (Radhiullah 3nhu) succeeded him, it was Hafsa who was
chosen to keep the first copy of the Noble Qur'an. She kept on worshipping
Allah devoutly, fasting, praying,and keeping the copy of the Muslims constitution,
the immortal miracle and the source of legislation and belief.
When her father the caliph of the Muslims
felt he was about to die after he was stabbed by Abu Lu'Lu'a the Zoroastrian
in the month of Dhul-Hijjah 23 AH, Hafsa was the guard of what he left
of inheritance.
She (Radhiullah 3nha) died in Mu'awiyah
ibn Sufyan's (Radhiullah 3nhu) era after she commanded her brother Abdullah
with what she had been commanded by her father. May Allah be pleased
with the guard of the Qur'an, Ameen.
I know it may be a little late but, I wanted
to share this story with you because I was reflecting on the dream Sheikh
Fowzan, one of the students of sheikh Uthaimeen from the Mahad in Fairfax
VA., had for the last couple of days since he death of the Mujhaid and
Zahid, Sheikh Uthaimenn (Raheemahullah). A couple of hours before
he died Sheikh Fowzan dreamt he went to go visit him at his house.
He said the house was very big like a castle. There he saw the sheikh
taller than usual and very bright and healthy. He looked with amazement
and asked the sheikh (Raheemahullah) to explain all of what he is seeing.
Sheikh Uthaimeen said "Hadha min fadhlirubbi" (This is from the Bounty
of My Lord.) He took sheikh Fowazan's hand and showed him gardens
that went beyond what the eye can see. To shorten the story, Sheikh
Fowzan woke up and called other scholars of Ilm, and he concluded either
the sheikh's condition would be better or he would die soon. About
four hours later one of the guardians of the Sunnah in our times, Sheikh
Uthaimeen died.
My conclusion is this. I notice that
every pious person deticated to Allah has died in a noble position in life.
As the Prophet (Sallahu 3laihi Wasallam) said to humanity "You are Allah's
witnesses on earth." I have been reflecting on how Blessed the sheikh is
now and those who died before him who preserved this deen (insha'Allah).
I thought to myself how I envied to be in his position so bad rather than
the state I was in now in meeting my Lord. I got depressed for a
moment and realized that I most likely will not reach his level specially
at the rate I am moving. So I felt, "then how will I go to Jennah????"
I came to the conclusion that either I
have to go in path of Allah and/or try my best to help spread the dawah
by rolling up my selves higher and getting more involved in helping institutes
like Dar al-Arqam that are pushing the religion of Allah and the Sunnah
of His messenger (Sallahu 3laihi Wasallam). I am no sheikh and don't
know how far I will go in this life with my obedience to Allah (Azawajal)
so why wait and see? I will continue trying to enjoin the good and
forbid the evil till then isnah'Allah. In saying this brothers/sisters
there is a lot of Islam and there are a lot of people and Allah does not
need our help. Wallahi we need Allah. So you can be one of
the two types of people, either the type who talk about things that are
happening, or the type who make things happen while others talk.
Let us stop looking for each other's short
comings, stop comparing our selves to the people of this world and time,
and compare our selves to the Salaf us Sauliheen (Pious Predecessors) and
realize where we stand with Allah. I think if more of us (Myself
so included) would just look at our sins serriously and who we are sinnig
against, this should silence us and wake us up. I ask Allah to guide
me and the all the Muslims to the straight path, the path of Allah and
His Messenger and those who followed it with caution, Ameen.
Please pass this to others if you fell
there is benefit in it, and my Lord surely knows Best.
Your brother,
Nabil Gharbieh
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