The Women Amoung Women {2}

Khadijah bint Khuwaylid (Kha-dee-jah) (The first two letters come from the throat)
     The first wife of Prophet Muhammad(Peace be upon him). The characteristic to focus on with Khadijah is her loyalty. She was extremely loyal to The Prophet(Peace be upon him) and she loved him dearly. She had a nickname amoung the people which was Ameera-Quraysh and it translates to The Princess of Quraysh. Quraysh was the tribe. Basically if we were to call a girl today The Princess of Toronto. She used to be a business woman and she would hire men to go and do trades out of Mecca for her but they would always cheat her with the money. She hired Prophet Muhammad(Peace be upon him) and he went and did the trades for her and when he came back he gave her all of the money. Over time she became interested in him and she was actually older than Prophet Muhammad(Peace be upon him). She sent her sister to ask him if he is interested in her for marriage. Nobody knew of Islam yet as Prophet Muhammad(Peace be upon him) was not given the title of a Prophet yet. After a short time they had gotten married and they enjoyed life together. When Prophet Muhammad(Peace be upon him) first received revelation he went to her and she comforted him. Khadijah had a cousin who studied the books of the Christians and Jews deeply and in the Injeel (Gospel) and Taurat (Torah) it is mentioned of another Prophet that will come and Prophet Musa(Peace be upon him) and Prophet 'Isa(Peace be upon him) had told their people of the Final messenger to come. He told Prophet Muhammad(Peace be upon him) that the same angel who brought revelation to him(Peace be upon him) brought it to  Prophet Musa(Peace be upon him) and that his people will treat him with enmity for bringing the message to them and if he was alive the day that they did this then he would support Prophet Muhammad(Peace be upon him). After more Qur'anic Ayat came down Ordering the Prophet(Peace be upon him) to openly call people to Islam they began to hate him and they boycotted the people who believed to the point of starvation. Khadijah had given her wealth to support Prophet Muhammad(Peace be upon him) and after three years she passed away. He missed her deeply and he always spoke good of her even when she passed. When he would give gifts to her friends even after she had passed away. Khadijah is a perfect example of loyalty. 

Fatimah bint Muhammad
    Fatimah was the youngest daughter of Prophet Muhammad (Peace be upon him) and he loved her dearly and she loved him dearly. When she had gotten married and Prophet Muhammad(Peace be upon him) had asked her where she would want to live in Madinah (Mad-ee-na) and she had told him(Peace be upon him) that she wanted to be right next to him(Peace be upon him). The Prophet(Peace be upon him) was walking and a man was walking behind him and the man would stone The Prophet(Peace be upon him) and whenever he told the people to say La ilaaha ilAllah (There is no god but Allah) then the man would yell and tell people not to accept The Prophet(Peace be upon him) and the man stoned him(Peace be upon him) to the point where he was covered in blood and then his two daughters Zainab (Zay-nab) and Fatimah went and washed his face. Once The Prophet (Peace be upon him) was praying and he went down into prostration. When he did this one of the people who opposed Islam the most was named Abu Jahl (Aboo-Jaal) he told the people if they could get the insides from a dead camel and put it on the back of The Prophet(Peace be upon him) and so the worst amoung them agreed to it. When he had come back they put  the rotting insides of the camel on the back of The Prophet(Peace be upon him) and it was very heavy so he stayed in prostration and he did not break the Salah (prayer). While it was on his back the people began to laugh to the extent that they began to point and fall. A companion named ibn Masud (ib-in Mas-ood) wanted to do something but he couldn't at the time. Somebody told Fatimah about it and she came running and removed it from the back of her father(Peace be upon him) and she rebuked some of the people. Through out her life time she was patient as people hurt her father(Peace be upon him) and she worked very hard as well to take care of her family later on in her life. With patience is ease because she was patient until Mecca was later conquered and hadn't done injustice to those who did injustice to her. Patience is key for all of us and with patience is the building of character.