Ummul Mu’minin Khadijah…
The Mother of the Believers
You are the best woman in the earth [1]
You married the noblest man in the world and jannah
You born the leader of women of Paradise Fathimah [2]
You are grandmother of outstanding man in Jannah Hasan and husayn
Allah the Most High and Jibril conveyed His blessing upon you
Give you a glad tiding as the owner a mansion in paradise
Made of brilliant pearls
Which there will be no clamor or toil [3]
You are At thahirah [the pure] with nobility chastity
A determined and intelligent woman
Born from the respectable family
Belong to the noblest one
A wealthy and generous woman
The grieve because left by your dear husband
The grieve of the failed of your second married [4]
But your patience fruit the happiness
You were prepared for a purest man on earth…
You hear about al-Ameen (the trustworthy one)
He is al-Saadiq (the honest one)
You hear his noble character…
Impressed with the personality
His honest and trustworthy
You do willing to be his soul partner…
You nervous wondering
If that young man will see you
You felt so old….
Oh khadijah…
Al Ameen was so poor
You are so respectable woman…
You are intelligent beautiful
You are wealthy
Many respectable men were keen to marry you.
You seem unreachable…
Allah knows the intention of your heart
He destined you what you deserve
Married you with him
The best man who respect your nobility and chastity….
On that blessed day
You show your generosity …
You invited all the poor…
You honor an old woman Halimah as-Sa’diyah
Back to her village with 40 of sheep
As the gift for woman who have care your beloved husband
A wonderfully blessed marriage
Lived together in a profound harmony
The ideal of intimacy, friendship,
mutual respect, support and consolation
The faithful and loyalty
You give everything you have
Your husband love one of your slave – Zaid bin Haritsah
You give him as gift
He love that slave like his own son….
He appreciate everything that you give
Your love and kindness always return back…
With more more love and honor
Your love and mercy growing
Increasing in quality and depth as the years passed by
You add his happiness with the most beautiful gift
al-Qasim, Abdullah, Zainab, Ruqqayah, Ummi Kalsum and Fatimah.
When ..You find your dear husband like to khalwat
You never prevent him to away from you..
You keep follow him with your love and heart
You ask people to care him around
Prepare him the food
That day when he came home shivering with fear
You covered and calmed him with the tenderness of love..
You behave wisely
Show your maturity…
You care and warn your dear first
Never annoy him with questions first
Until he told you himself…
You so trust and confident of him..
You cheer him that Allah will never disgrace him
You believe in him
You said
He is a noble man who always uphold the tie of kinship
Speak always truthfully,
Help always the poor and destitute.
Serve always the guests generously
And assist always those who stricken by calamity [5]
Your wise tender words greatly comfort him
Never ever doubt him,
Always sure he is the best..
Nor show the slightest hesitation towards him
Always be his greatest source of comfort,
The first one provide security for him
You search help to clear what happened with you husband
Affirm your feelings of his high dignities
A messenger of Allah is your husband….
You be the first to believe in Allah and His Messenger
You the first to believe in what his Lord sent him
You strengthened him in all his affairs.
You spent all what you have for his da’wah….
Until that day he saw you crying
But not due the poverty
The sadness no has anything left anymore to spend in His way…
Remember that day when all Quraish boycott the prophet
You company him to your end
You were the richest who owed several kinds of trade.
That time you were shivering in hungry
Your beauty fades due of poverty
You feel the hard..
You felt sick lying on your bed….
You keep put smiles on your face
to welcoming your husband
You never complain
nor show your sorrow…..
To strengthen his ways always
Khadijah
He never forget all what you did….
Your dear husband loves never fade
Death couldn’t take his love away….
You always have a special place in his heart
Your gesture and voice… recorded strongly in his mind
He always constantly mentions your name…
Didn’t get tired of praising you
Mentioned you virtues and merits extensively on many occasions
It seem he never depart his house before praised you
Whenever he sacrificed a sheep
He would send it to those who had been your intimate friends.
He love you dearly
as if there had never been any other woman in the world like you [6]
Anything hurt you.. That would hurt him too..
He couldn’t bear to hear bad thing in your regard
Even that came from his beloved wife Aishah…
He said….
You are a wife who believed in him when other rejected him
You accepted Islam when people rejected
You helped and comforted him
When there was no one else to lend him a helping hand
You affirmed his truthfulness when everyone else accused he lying
You supported him with you money when everyone else deprived him.
Allah provided him with children through you
When no other woman has given me children. [7]
How could someone forget you
You are a loveable woman
You are an adorable woman…
And perfect affectionate mother..
A virtuous wife
You always beside your husband to listen his sorrow
You are a wise behalf
You are the best friend and counselor…
Allah loves you more
Your soul is His belong…
to Him you return
Your dear husband buried your body with his own hand
That day…that year be a great grieve time in his live….
And he call your for the palace that He promises
Give you a glad tiding as the owner a mansion in paradise
Made of brilliant pearls
Which there will be no clamor or toil
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May Allah help all us to be like Khadijah…
A blessed woman whom Allah and her husband please with her
May Allah bless all muslimah with a husband who love and respect his wife like Rasulullah salallahu alahi wassalam love and respect Khadijah…
InshaAllah
Ameen
Rytha
Batam 19 February 2007
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[1] Ali ibn Abi Talib (ra) narrated that the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) said, “The best of the world’s women is Mary (in her lifetime) and the best of the world’s women is Khadijah (in her lifetime). [Bukhari] Abu Musa Al ashari also narrated that the Prophet (pbuh) said, “Many among men attained perfection, but among women none attained perfection except mary the daughter of Imran, and Asiya the wife of Pharoah, and the superiority of Aisha to other women is like the superiority of Tharid (an Arabic dish) to other meals”
[2] (Narrated by al-Bukhaari, al-Manaaqib, 3353) “The best f the women of Paradise are: Khadeejah, Faatimah, Maryam [Mary] and ‘Aasiyah.” (Ahmad and An-Nasaa’ee)
[3] Reported by Abu Hurayrah & collected by al-Bukhaaree (vol.5 pp.104-5 no.168) & Muslim (vol.4 p.1297 no.5967))
[4] Khadijah first husband is Abu Halah bin Zurarah at-Tamimi, he die, they had 2 children Halah dan Hindun. Then she married Atiq bin ‘A’id bin Abdullah al-Makhzumi after some times they divorced.
[5] (Reported by ‘Aa’ishah & collected by Muslim (eng. Trans vol.1 pp.96-8 no.301).
[6] HR Bukhaaree (eng. Trans. Vol.5 p.104 no.166) & Muslim (eng. Trans. Vol.4 p.1297 no.5972)[7] (HR. Ahmad, Al-Isti’ab karya Ibnu Abdil Ba’ar)
