Mothers of the Believers

they fully deserve to be given the status of Mother of the Believers till the Day of Resurrection. According to some Hadith reports, when the verses mentioned above were revealed, the wives of the Prophet were given the option to stay with the Prophet if they wished and separate if they wanted. Then the Prophet entered the house and said to his wife Aisha: “O Aisha, I would like to talk to you about one matter. Regarding this option, you should not be in a hurry to decide unless you consult your parents. Aisha replied: “O Prophet of God, I will not consult my parents. Rather, I prefer God and His Messenger and his house.” (Sahih al-Bukhari, Hadith No. 2468) The response of all of his wives was similar. None of them decided to separate from the Prophet based on the option provided by the Quran. Under the circumstances, the decision of the spouses to stay with the Prophet was an extraordinary sacrifice. At that time, apart from other facilities of life, even simple food was not available for two meals a day. The condition of the Prophet’s wives at that time can be gauged from an incident. “Aisha narrates that an Ansari (a Muslim of Madinah) sent a goat to her house once. They struggled to make proper pieces of the meat at night. Someone said, “Why didn’t you light a lamp so that you could chop the meat in the light of the lamp?” Aisha replied that if we had oil to light a lamp, we would drink this oil