A Love Story In The Year of Grief | Khutbah by Sh. Elshinawy
4/25/202622 min
Many of us know about Khadijah (RA), but do we really know what made her exceptional? Even after her death, the Prophet ﷺ spoke of her constantly, sent meat to her old friends, and grew emotional at the sound of her sister’s voice. Listen to the khutbah by Sh. Mohammad Elshinawy to gain a new perspective on the Prophet (SAWS) and his relationship with Khadijah (RA).
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We begin the name of Allah always, and we praise Him, and we thank Him, and we seek His help, and His guidance, and His forgiveness. And we testify to His unique oneness and to the finality of the prophethood of Muhammad, sallallahu alaihi wa alihi wa sallam. And reminding myself and you with the taqwa of Allah to be conscious of Allah at all times and places as best as we can. Brothers and sisters, there was nobody, and there will be nobody ever like Khadija radiallahu anha. Not just because she was the only woman to be married to our Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam and have him all to herself for twenty-five years. Not only because she was in fact the very first person to ever believe in his message on the face of the earth. Not just because she was the only mother of his surviving children. Not only because she was the greatest woman of the greatest generation ever brought out to humanity. But because she may have actually been the greatest woman of all time. In Sahih al-Bukhari, the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam said, khairu nisa'iha Maryam wa khairu nisa'iha Khadija. The best of her women, the women of her respective time, was Maryam, Mary the mother of Jesus, peace be upon them both. And the best of her women, her contemporaries, was Khadija radiallahu anha. As Imam An-Nawawi said, and then