بسم اللہ الرحمن الرحیم
Nahmaduhu wa Nusalli Ala Rasoolihil Kareem
A'uzu Billahi Minash Shaitanir Rajeem
بسم اللہ الرحمن الرحیم
Innallaha La Yughayyiru Ma Bi Qaumin Hatta Yughayyiru Ma Bi Anfusihim
My dear sisters!
I and you are among the members of the Ummah of Muhammad. Today, I will draw your attention to a few important points. You must ask yourself about them. Allah Almighty created us as the best of creation and then brought Muslims into the world from... then granted refuge in the Muslim family from the school of Nabawi teachings. Have we ever pondered the meaning of a Muslim in all these stages?
Have we pondered the responsibility of a Muslim?
Have we pondered the qualities of being a Muslim?
Are we really accepting the oneness of Allah?
Or are we just showing off our Muslimness like a custom?
Islam is related to Allah. To be proven in the court of Allah, to remain proven, one must continue to accumulate deeds with the survival of the feeling of being a Muslim. To offer all prayers one day and consider it perfection, and then to abandon prayers for a week is sheer foolishness and misguidance.
O beloved of Allah!
Bondwomen cannot perform worship, asceticism, recitation, or obedience without connecting with Allah Pak. If they cannot do all this, how will their Muslimness remain? The Quran and Sunnah are the greatest virtues of Muslims. If the intentions of the heart and outward actions are in accordance with them, then only is one a Muslim. Today, I and you are living in a world far from civilization and education, and we are becoming devoid of knowledge and literature. Previously, sitting in a mud house and giving a slight piece of advice to a raw ear would bind it to the strings of the heart, but today it is not even being tied to one's own skirt. Remember, whenever there has been a thought and effort to take steps for the reform of society, take your steps in a clean and tidy manner. Dirty steps spoil the paths.
Become a seeker of the reform of the Ummah by carrying the light of action and the flame of knowledge, holding the flag of prayer. In the Holy Quran, Allah Pak says, "Ask the people of knowledge about the issues, let the people of language, the people of truth, express their temperament so that they may work with purification, Sufism, and silence." Our society is thirsty for good morals!
Our society is looking for sincere female scholars!
Our society is looking for gentleness and love!
Our society is the furthest behind in the class of knowledge!
Our society is devoid of unity!
Our society has taken refuge in the cloak of differences!
Our society is trapped in the wires of ego!
When we start the work of reform in society, we must perform ablution, wear the garment of action, take the morsel of gentleness in the plate of love, and instill the lesson of peace in their hearts!
One should worry more about personal reform than the reform of society, one should recite the Kalima Tayyiba, one should take care of Durood Sharif, one should be regular in prayers, one should fast and beg Allah earnestly in solitude for guidance! By looking at the life of the Companions, reading the life of the ten blessed Companions, one should enter the field of education and learning while walking in the footsteps of the Prophet. By reading the life of Hazrat Aisha (RA), one should refine one's emotions. Hazrat Hafsa's scholarly passion, Hazrat Umm Salama's eagerness to acquire Hadith, the female Companions are the personalities through whom Allah took the service of preserving Islam.
My sisters!
A woman's acquisition of knowledge is as necessary as the sun rising in the day, just as barren land demands rain, so too is it necessary for a woman to acquire education!
Hazrat Aisha's knowledge invites women to knowledge!
Hazrat Hafsa's knowledge invites women to knowledge!
Hazrat Khawla's bravery creates courage in women!
Hazrat Khansa's patience teaches women the lesson of patience!
Hazrat Asma's sacrifice teaches women the temperament of sacrifice!
Hazrat Fatima's obedience adorns women with the pallu of obedience!
The female Companions are the first princesses of Islam. They saw the era from the birth of Islam to the leadership of Islam and performed feats of protection until the Day of Judgment. We women have to become strong protectors of our own selves, qualities, health, and honor, then we have to have the passion for research of knowledge and the struggle to acquire it, we have to broaden the scientific and practical aspects. Society... does not rise by spoiling, daughters do not live a life of prosperity by reforming. A woman does what she sets her mind to.
May Allah Pak grant us all the ability to walk in the footsteps of the female Companions, Amen.
Wa Aakhiru Da'wana Anil Hamdulillahi Rabbil Aalameen