The 4 Greatest Women...
As-salam alaykum!
I'm sorry for not updating this as much as I envisioned, alhamdulillah there's a lot of exciting and time consuming activities going on this Ramadan.. if you don't know already what I mean by that, insha'Allah you'll be finding out! ;)
I quickly just wanted to share 2 things inshaAllah. 1) There's a good book I've recently read entitled Who Moved My Cheese? It's a realllly quick read ( I actually read it on my train ride to work!) and it has a lot of great lessons when you read it through an Islamic perspective. It's about 2 little mice named Sniff and Scurry, and 2 "little people" named Hem and Haw who learn about change through finding New Cheese in a maze. It's a great way to analyze your own life and how we all deal with change by reading about these characters whose names are perfectly chosen to portray how they are in the book. 2) I've been listening to Imam Anwar al-Awlaki's cd set on the Meccan period of the Life of Muhammad sallalahu alayhi wa salam, and he discussed how there's lessons to be learned about the 4 greatest women: Khadeeja, Maryam, Aasiyah, and Fatima (ra). These four great women were just that because they were the greatest mothers and the best of wives. Khadeeja (ra) was the best wife to the prophet sallalahu alayhi wa salam and he stated how no one ever replaced her! She was the one who comforted him when no one else was there, and she had faith that Allah would never disgrace such a great man! Fatima too was a great wife to `Ali and worked hard day and night in her house. She was the daughter of our prophet sallalahu alayhi wa salam and her hands would crack from doing so much cleaning and cooking! SubhanAllah. Maryam and Aasiyah were great mothers to the anbiya! It makes so much sense why heaven lies under our mothers' feet alhamdulillah! Imam Anwar commented that Aisha (ra) had great knowledge-- more than Khadeeja and Fatima, but she was not considered one of the four greatest women. Of course there's an importance to get educated in Islam; in my eyes it's a responsibility as well as a communal obligation since as a mom, you'll be teaching your own children. But subhanAllah to reflect on what made these women so great, above any other women to come...
Sorry if the above didn't make any sense, but if you've talked to me recently, you know why I even mention any of this =)
and Allah knows best!
I'm sorry for not updating this as much as I envisioned, alhamdulillah there's a lot of exciting and time consuming activities going on this Ramadan.. if you don't know already what I mean by that, insha'Allah you'll be finding out! ;)
I quickly just wanted to share 2 things inshaAllah. 1) There's a good book I've recently read entitled Who Moved My Cheese? It's a realllly quick read ( I actually read it on my train ride to work!) and it has a lot of great lessons when you read it through an Islamic perspective. It's about 2 little mice named Sniff and Scurry, and 2 "little people" named Hem and Haw who learn about change through finding New Cheese in a maze. It's a great way to analyze your own life and how we all deal with change by reading about these characters whose names are perfectly chosen to portray how they are in the book. 2) I've been listening to Imam Anwar al-Awlaki's cd set on the Meccan period of the Life of Muhammad sallalahu alayhi wa salam, and he discussed how there's lessons to be learned about the 4 greatest women: Khadeeja, Maryam, Aasiyah, and Fatima (ra). These four great women were just that because they were the greatest mothers and the best of wives. Khadeeja (ra) was the best wife to the prophet sallalahu alayhi wa salam and he stated how no one ever replaced her! She was the one who comforted him when no one else was there, and she had faith that Allah would never disgrace such a great man! Fatima too was a great wife to `Ali and worked hard day and night in her house. She was the daughter of our prophet sallalahu alayhi wa salam and her hands would crack from doing so much cleaning and cooking! SubhanAllah. Maryam and Aasiyah were great mothers to the anbiya! It makes so much sense why heaven lies under our mothers' feet alhamdulillah! Imam Anwar commented that Aisha (ra) had great knowledge-- more than Khadeeja and Fatima, but she was not considered one of the four greatest women. Of course there's an importance to get educated in Islam; in my eyes it's a responsibility as well as a communal obligation since as a mom, you'll be teaching your own children. But subhanAllah to reflect on what made these women so great, above any other women to come...
Sorry if the above didn't make any sense, but if you've talked to me recently, you know why I even mention any of this =)
and Allah knows best!
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