Wednesday 16 October 2013

Romance in Islam {1}

There is no speech which is better than the Speech of Allah (Qur'an) and there is no guidance better than the guidance of Prophet Muhammad (Peace be upon him) and from his teachings is how to be romantic to one's wife. Islam encourages romance and kind treatment towards women and it rids injustice towards women and harshness towards women. This post will consist most of hadiths which are about how The Prophet(Peace be upon him) was with his wives and it's usually his wives who narrate these stories. In the next posts I will speak of some of the wives of The Prophet(Peace be upon him) and some women who were role models in Islam and till this day they are role models in Islam.
    The first wife of Prophet Muhammad(Peace be upon him) was named Khadijah. Whenever the Prophet(Peace be upon him) received Qur'an he described it like he would hear a loud sound and he would begin to sweat and his body would shake. If a someones hand or leg was under his then they described that it would feel as if their hand or leg would crush due to the weight of the revelation. If he was riding an animal and he received revelation while on it then the animal would collapse. This happened for 23 years as the Qur'an took 23 years to come down and it came down as actual speech. When he received the first ayat of Qur'an he was extremely scared and shook and he received the first ayat in a cave named Hira. He ran home and asked Khadijah to cover him and she covered him and she brought comfort to his heart. She always helped him and stood right by him as long as she lived and when she passed away The Prophet(Peace be upon him) was extremely sad and in later years he would say, "She believed in me when no one else did; she accepted Islam when people rejected me; and she helped and comforted me when there was no one else to lend me a helping hand." 

     A'isha was another wife of Prophet Muhammad(Peace be upon him) and she came after Khadijah. People who didn't see The Prophet(Peace be upon him) would go to A'isha to ask her about him after he passed away. When his name would enter her ears then she would begin to miss him so much that she would begin to cry. So A'isha would cry by hearing the name of The Prophet(Peace Be Upon him) but why? What moments did they share together that left such a feeling in her heart (apart from him being The final messenger)? A'isha narrates that many times when Prophet Muhammad(Peace be upon him) would leave the house then he would kiss her on her cheek. Before he would also go to Salah (prayer) he would kiss her. 
    In the Arab society it was considered bad for a man to eat on the same plate as a lady but Prophet Muhammad(Peace be upon him) would sit next to his wives and he would eat with them and he would put a morsel of food in the mouth and she would put a morsel of food in his mouth. A'isha narrates that once she was eating with him(Peace be upon him) and he gave her a cup of water and so she drank from the cup that was given to her. She then states that The Prophet(Peace be upon him) then took the cup and spun it to see where her lip marks were and then he drank from the same spot. 

5 comments:

  1. I like this topic but i'm a little confused, did the prophet have more than one wife at the same time?

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    1. Khadijah (Kha-dee-jah) (the first two letter are pronounced from the back of the throat.) was his only wife when he first married at 25 but after she passed away people saw he was sad and a woman told him to meet this woman for marriage so that was his second wife. After Khadijah he married more than one woman and he had more than one wife at a time. My next post will be about this :)

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  2. How interesting! Do you believe it is okay to have more than one wife? If so, would YOU have more than one wife one day? Also, why do you say (peace be upon him) after Prophet Muhammad? Do you have to?

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    1. Yeah I believe it's fine to have more than one wife, we are allowed to have up to four wives. I would be more than happy with one wife but if there was a woman who was struggling in taking care of her children and she found it very hard on her own and she wanted to marry and I liked what I saw in her with regards to her strength in Islam and character then I would marry her. Also there are more women than there are men and every woman wants to experience love and feel loved so in that case I would as well. Yeah we have too, when we saw it there are certain angels that collect it.

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  3. Do you think that his wives played a large role in his life or were they just there to support him?

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