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May Allah be please with our mother Aisha.
radiAllahu ta'ala Anha
You know, for us, we get such a glimpse
into the life of the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam,
through her hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of narrations
and her willingness to share the arguments,
to share the jokes, to share all moments
from the life of the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
And that's not just something we would crave.
Even the Sahaba wanted to hear from Aisha.
They wanted to sit with her and hear from her
what the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam was like at home
and the next generation, the Tabur'in,
they wanted to come to her and sit with her and ask her,
what was he like, SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
And so, when we're interacting with these narrations,
think of yourself sitting with Aisha.
radiAllahu Anha
Even though you know him.
SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
And asking her, you know, what was he really like?
SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
With you when he was at home?
So you couldn't get enough from her.
radiAllahu ta'ala Anha
And on one hand, you wanted to know how human he was.
SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
And on the other hand, you only had reinforced to you
how superhuman he was.
SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
What I mean by that is that when Aisha,
radiAllahu Anha
was asked, you know, what was he like?
And when they were asking her that it was, you know,
implying, you know, did he used to take a break in any way?
I mean, the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam surely would
come home and he would be exhausted, right?
And Aisha radiAllahu Anha, says actually
he was a human being like all other human beings.
When he would come home, SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
he would remove the lice from his own clothing.
He would milk his own goats.
He would do work himself.
He would serve his own family.
He would tie his own camel.
He would feed his animals, SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
He would eat with servants.
He would knead the dough with them.
He would carry his own groceries.
SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
kaana fi khidmati ah lihi SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
He was in the service of his family.
And she says he also used to joke a lot at home.
So, so many of the jokes that we have
from the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
are between her and the Prophet.
SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
And he had this amazing attention to detail.
With his family and with whatever guests were in his home.
So the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam would ask me,
you know, what part of the glass I drank from
and he would drink from it.
SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
Aisha radiAllahu Anha
she would laugh and she would smile when she
would talk about the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
kissing her, because of how emotional it would make her
and how much joy that used to bring her.
And if you were a guest in his home,
the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam would personally
serve you. So when he came home, the Prophet,
SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
It's not like he just, you know, figuratively, you know,
just knocked out on the couch.
Alayhi Salatu Wasallam
And had nothing to give his family.
He gave everything to his family.
SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
And that was something special about him.
And the other implication of that,
was the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam's consistency.
So when she's asked, how was he,
SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam, at home?
She says, kaana khuluquhul Quran.
That's the greatest praise she could have given him.
That his character was the Quran.
Everything he taught you, he was.
SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
And in one narration, she even said,
iqrahu in shi'tum Qad aflaha almu/minoon Allatheena hum fee
salatihimkhashiAAoon
If you want, you can read Surah Mu'nimun,
the first 10 Ayat.
Haqadha kaana khuluqu Rasullulahi SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
That's what the character of the messenger of Allah
SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam was like.
And when she's asked about his worship,
that's when Aisha radiAllahu Anha
just continues to say, look,
as beautiful as his worship was on the outside,
you have no idea what his worship was like on the inside.
She was asked about what his qiyaam was like
and particularly in Ramadan,
and she said that Rasulullah SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
used to pray 11 raka'ahs.
In Ramadan or in other months.
And he used to offer four and then four,
and then he would offer three,
and then he would offer his witr SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
And she said, don't ask me about their beauty
and their length because they were unmatched.
SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
So the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
was praised in his qiyam from her.
And Aisha radiAllahu ta'ala Anha
says that I asked the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
do you sleep before offering
the witr prayer?
And Aisha radiAllahu Anha says that he said,
SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
My eyes sleep.
Wala ya namu qalbi
And my heart remains awake.
My heart does not sleep.
subhanAllah
So just like the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
in public, when he would hear the call of prayer,
you could see it.
Arih na biha Ya Bilal
Comfort us with it, oh Bilal.
And he would rush to the prayer at home.
SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
His relationship with his Lord
was the thing that his family noted the most.
And there's this narration that stuns me.
And it's really powerful.
And I want you to imagine, again,
you're sitting with Aisha radiAllahu Anha
and you've just collected all of these narrations from her
about the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
and you ask her after all of this, give us,
a'jaba shai'in araAitihi min Rasulullahi
SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
Ya Aisha, oh, our Mother.
What was the most amazing thing you ever saw
from the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam?
You know, all of this that you've given us,
if you could note the most amazing thing,
an incident, a moment that you shared with him,
that you could give it to us.
And saqatat, fabaqat
she got quiet and she started to cry.
And after she cries for a long time,
she says about the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
everything about him was amazing.
SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
amarhu qulluhu ajab
There was nothing about his affairs,
SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
about the way he carried himself, about his being,
his presence that wasn't amazing.
But she said that the most amazing thing,
she said there was this one night.
lama kana layla tan minal layali
There was this one particular night,
where the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam came to bed
and his skin was to my skin and we were close
and he says to me, "Aisha, would you allow me
to go and worship my Lord tonight?"
subhanAllah like, are you okay if I leave the bed
right now and I start worship?
And it was in the very beginning of the night
and the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam habitually
would take some time to sleep
and then he would wake up and pray.
But here, he came and he cuddled with his wife,
and he says to her, "Ya, Aisha, can I go and worship
Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la, are you okay with that?"
And she said,
wAllahi inni lahu hibal qurbak
I love being close to you.
wa uhibbu ma saArak
But as much as I love being close to you,
Ya Rasulullah
I love what makes you happy, so if you want to get up
and pray tonight and you want to start early doing that,
then go ahead.
So Aisha radiAllahu Anha is in bed,
she's watching the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
she says he got up and he made wudhu,
and he said AllahuAkbar and he started to pray.
And she said he started to weep, SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
so much that his beard became soaked.
That was normal for her to witness the Prophet
SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam in long nights of qiyam.
And the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam weeping at night
but she's looking at him praying
and he's weeping so much that his beard was soaked.
And Aisha radiALlahu Anha the room was so small
that when the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
used to make sujood in his qiyam, when he used to prostrate,
he would tap her on the leg
and she would move up her legs,
so that the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam could pray.
And so she says that this was just unusual,
because then he kept on crying
until he wet the area of his prayer.
I mean, can you imagine how many tears came down
from the eyes of Rasulullah SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam?
That his beard was wet, that the ground
where her legs would be, his room became wet.
He literally caused a puddle from his tears.
So at that point, you're worried about him, right?
I mean, this is unusual, how much crying is taking place.
And you would think that something bad happened,
or you would think he's afraid.
SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
So Aisha radiAllahu Anha as a good wife,
as someone who loves him, she says, I wanted to comfort him.
She said, Ya Rasulullah, why are you crying so much?
Why are you crying so much?
Why Ya Rasulullah?
Why do you have to cry so much?
Waqad ghafira laAllahu mataqaddama min thanbika wama
taakhkhara
And Allah has forgiven you for everything
that you have done in the past
and everything that you will do,
and the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam responds
and he says, "Aisha, affaLa aqoonu AAabdan shakoora?"
O Aisha, should I not be a grateful servant?"
And then he says, verily, there was this ayah
that was revealed to me last night.
Waylulli man karaAha, wa lam ya at fakhar fihaA
Woe to the one who reads it
and does not go into contemplation.
Inna fee khalqi assamawatiwal-ardi wakhtilafi allayli
wannahariwalfulki allatee tajree fee albahri bimayanfaAAu
annasa
Indeed in the creation of the heavens and the earth,
the alteration of night and day,
and the ships that sail the sea.
alfulki allatee tajree fee albahri bimayanfaAAu annasa wama
anzala Allahumina assama-i min ma-in faahyabihi al-arda
baAAda mawtiha wabaththa feehamin kulli dabba
And the rain that Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la
sends down from the heavens,
reviving the earth after its death
and the way that Allah scatters
his creatures throughout the earth.
wassahabi almusakhkhari bayna assama-iwal-ardi
And the shifting of the winds and the way that the clouds
differ between the heavens and the earth.
laayatin liqawminyaAAqiloon
In all of this is a sign for people of understanding.
So Aisha radiAllahu ta'ala Anha
is witnessing an ayah, a sign of Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la
in front of her, and the sign of Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la
in front of her, which is the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi
Wasallam, is crying because of these signs of Allah
Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la that Allah has still left for us,
should we be people of understanding.
(prayer singing)