Flowers for the Women Wearing Veils - Volume I — Page 366
! ! 366 narrated by women and it has also been discussed in Surah a n - Nisa , which means the Surah of Women. The matter has been raised in the Surah of Women , and who else but a woman could resolve this issue? When a disagreement arose among men over this issue, a woman resolved it. This woman was Haz rat A’isha h ra. God revealed this issue in the Surah of W omen [ Surah an - Nisa ] and also resolved it through a woman. However nowadays women say that they are not able to comprehend the matter. You should u nderstand it ! Every day , we pray to our Lord to grant us some particular blessings. God Almighty has promised in Surah a n - Nisa that He will grant someone the s ta t us they deserve. This issue has now been resolved. The third issue upon which we differ with others is the advent of the Promised Messiah as. We believe that the P romised O ne has come , and t hey say he has yet to come. This issue can be reduced to one or two arguments, which the Holy Prophet sa put forward in support of his truthfulness. In the Holy Qur’ān , God Almighty directed the Holy Prophet Muhammad sa to tell his enemies, ‘ I have spent a lifetime among you before my prophethood, and you admi t that I have never told a lie regarding any human being. H ow is it that I went to sleep one night and awoke the next morning to make false claims regarding God? ’ The Holy Prophet Muhammad sa was known for his honesty and trustworthiness. The Holy Prophet Muhammad sa was from a very poor family , while Haz rat Khadija h ra was the wealthiest wom a n in M ecc a. His abject poverty is evid ent from the following incident : It w as customary among Arabs at the time to send newborn children to a wet - nurse. The wet - nurses who came to M ecc a during the year in which the Holy Prophet Muhammad sa was born, refused to take custody of the Holy Prophet Muhammad sa , for after nursing a child, the wet - nurse generally receives a compensation from the family. They did not believe they would get much from this family. A t first , Haz rat Halima h also declined to take him but after f inding no one else to care for, she came back and took the Holy Prophet Muhammad sa under her care. Such were the financial conditions of his family , that no wet -