Islam Gives Courage

Islam Gives Courage

1992 7 July 6 Islam Gives Courage (280) Timazir bint Amr (d. 24 A.H.), a poetess, later known as Khansa was born into a noble family. Her father was the chief of the Banu Saleem tribe of Muzar. She had lost her two brothers in a war fought prior to the advent of Islam. Their deaths were a great shock to her and where, before this tragedy, it had been her wont to compose just two or three couplets at a time, now, after her bereavement the verses simply flowed from her heart as the tears flowed from her eyes. The elegies she wrote in memory of her brother particularly Sakhr, were heart rendering. She continued to write and lament until she became blind in both eyes.

After the fall of Mecca, she came to the Prophet with her tribe and· accepted Islam. It is related that when she read out some of her verses to the Prophet, he was very moved and asked her to continue reading.

In her youth, she had been unable to bear the tragedy of her brother’s deaths, but she derived such strength from Islam that, in her old age, she sacrificed her own sons in the path of God – she had four sons, all of whom she persuaded to fight in the battle of Qadsiya. They all fought bravely and were finally martyred. When she received the news of the deaths of all of her sons, she neither wrote elegies, nor did she bewail their passing. Instead, she heard the news with great calm and fortitude, and said: ‘Thank God who has awarded me the honour of their martyrdom. I hope God will bring us together in the life Hereafter.’

(Khatoon-e- Islam)

Self Reliance

1992 7 July 6 Self Reliance (35) The Prophet once asked: “Who will pledge to me that he will never ask anything of anyone?” Thauban said that he would; and from then on, he truly never asked anything of anyone.

(Ahmad. Musnad)