Aisha(peace be upon her) was a chosen Muslim women from Allah to beloved Prophet Mohammed s.a.v.s.
Aisha piety and pious to Allah could not be described with words.After Prophet Mohammed s.a.v.s Aisha was teaching other Muslims with Mohammed s.a.v.s. wprds-
Her love for beloved Prophet could not be descibed with any words,because neaither one women loved her husband the way like Aisha loved our Prophet Mohammed s.a.v.s.
The life of Aisha is a proof that a woman can be far more learned than man and that she can be the teacher of scholars and experts. Her life is also a proof that a woman can exert influence over men and women and provide them with inspiration and leadership. Her life is also a proof that the same woman can be totally feminine and be a source of pleasure, joy and comfort to her husband. She did not graduate from any university; there were no universities as such in her day. But still her utterances are studied in faculties of literature, her legal pronouncements are studied in colleges of law and her life and works are studied and researched by students and teachers of Muslim history as they have been far over a thousand years.
The bulk of her vast treasure of knowledge was obtained while she was still quite young. In her early childhood, she was brought up by her father who was greatly and respected for he was a man of wide knowledge, gentle manners and an agreeable presence. More over he was closest friend of the Noble Prophet (Sall Allaho alaihe wasallam) who was frequent visitor to their home since the very early days of his mission.
In her youth already known for her formidable memory, she came under the loving care and attention of the Holy prophet (Sall Allaho alaihe wasallam) himself. as his wife and close companion, she acquired fro him knowledge and insight such as no woman has ever acquired. Aisha became the Prophet’s wife in Makkah when she was most likely in the tenth year of her life but her wedding did not take place until the second year after the Hijrah when she was about 14 or 15 years of her age.
Before and after her wedding, she maintained a natural jollity and innocence and did not seem to have an ego at all by the thought of being wedded to him who was the messenger of Allah (Sall Allaho alaihe wasallam) whom all his companions, including her own mother and father, treated with such love and reverence as they gave to no one else.
About her wedding, she related that shortly before she was leave her parent’s house, she slipped out into the courtyard to play with passing friends: “I was playing on sea-saw and my long streaming hair was disheveled,” she said. They came and took me from my play and made me ready.” They dressed her in a wedding dress made from fine red-striped cloth from Bahrain and the mother took her to the newly built house where some women of the Ansar were waiting outside the door. They greeted her with the words:” for good and for happiness may all be well”. Then in the presence of the smiling Prophet (S.A.W.W), a bowl of milk was brought. The prophet drank fro it himself and offered did to Aisha. She declined it shyly but when he insisted, she did so and then offered the bowl to her sister Asma who was sitting beside her. Others also drank of it and that was as much as there was of simple and solemn occasions of their wedding. There was no wedding feast.
Marriage to the holy prophet (S.A.W) did not change her playful ways. Her young friends came regularly to visit her in her own apartment. “I would be playing with my dolls,” she said adding,” with the girls who were my friends and the Prophet would come in and they would slip out of the house and he would go out after them and bring them back, for he was pleased for my sake to have them there.” Some time he would say “stay where you are” before they had time to leave, and would also join in their games. Aisha said: “one day, the Prophet came in when I was playing with the doll and he said: ‘O Aisha, whatever game is this?’ ‘It is Solomon horses, ‘I said and he laughed.” Some time as he came in, he would screen himself with his cloak so as not to disturb Aisha and her friends. Aisha’s early life in Medina also had its more serious and anxious times. Once her father and two companions who were staying with him fell ill with a dangerous fever, which was common in Medina during certain seasons. One morning, Aisha went to visit him and was dismayed to find the three men lying completely weak and exhausted. She asked her father how he was and he answered in verse but she did not understand what he was saying. The two other also answered her with lines of poetry, which seemed to her to be nothing but unintelligent babbling. She was deeply troubled and went home to the Holy prophet saying: “They are raving, out of their minds, through the heat of fever.” The holy prophet asked what they have said and was somewhat reassured when she repeated almost word for word the lines they had uttered and which made sense although she did not fully understand then then.
This was the demonstration of the great retentive power of her memory, which as the years went by was to preserve so many of the priceless sayings of the Holy prophet. Of the Holy prophet’s wives in medina, it was clear that it was Aisha that he loved most. From time to time, one or the others of his companions would ask:
“O messenger of Allah whom do you love most in the world?” he did not always give the same answer to this question for he felt great love for many: for his daughers and their children, for Abu bakr, for Ali, for Zayd and his son Usamah. B
ut of his wives the only one he named in this connection was Aisha.
She too loved him greatly in return and often would seek reassurance from him that he loved her. Once she asked him:” how is your love for me?” “Like the rope’s knot,” he replied meaning that it was strong and secure. And time after time thereafter, she would ask him:” how is the knot?” and he would reply:” in the same condition.”
As she loved the holy prophet so was her love and she could not bear the thought that the holy prophet’s attention should be given to others more than seemed enough to her. She asked him: “O Messenger of Allah, tell me of your self. If you were between the two slopes of valley, one of which had not been grazed whereas the other had been grazed, on which would you pasture your flocks?” “On that which had not been grazed,” replied the holy prophet. “Even so,” She said, “and I m not as any other of yours wives. “Every one of them had a husband before you, except me.” The Holy Prophet (Sall Allaho alaihe wasalam) smiled and said nothing. Aisha was really a generous soul and patient one. She bore with the rest of the holy prophet’s household poverty and hunger, which often lasted for long periods. For days on end, no fire would be lit in the sparsely furnished house of the holy prophet for cooking and baking bread and they would live merely on dates and water.
After the Khaybar expedition, the Holy prophet stayed away from his wives for a month. Returning from his seclusion, he went first to Asia’s apartment. She was delighted to see him but he said he had received revelation, which required putting two options before her. He then recited the verses: “O Prophet; Say to your wives: If you desire the life of his world and its adornments, then come and I will bestow its goods upon you, and I will release you with a fair release. But if you desire God and His Messenger and the abode of the hereafter, then verily God has laid in store for you an immense reward for such as you who do good.” Aisha’s reply was; “Indeed I desire God and His Messenger and the abode of the hereafter,” and her response was followed by all the other wives of the Holy Prophet (S.A.W). She stuck to her choice both during the life time of the Holy Prophet and afterwards. Later, when the Muslims were favoured with the Enormous riches, she was given a gift of one hundred thousand dirhams. She was fasting when she received the money and she distributed the amount to the poor and needy even immediately, though she had no provision in her house. Shortly after maidservant said to her: “Could you buy meat fro a dirham with which to break your fast?” she said, “If I had remembered, I would have done so.” The Holy Prophet’s affection for Aisha remained to the last. During his final illness, it was to Aisha’s apartment that he went at the suggestion of his wives. For much of the time, he lay there on couch with his head resting on her chest or on her lap. It was she who took a Miwak, chewed upon it to soften it and gave it to the Holy prophet. Despite his weakness, he rubbed his teeth with it vigorously. Not long afterward, he became unconscious and Aisha thought it was the onset of death, but after an hour he opened his eyes.
It was Aisha who has preserved for us these dying moments of the most honored of God’s creation, His beloved Messenger. When he opened his eyes again, Aisha remembered Iris having said to her: “No prophet is taken by death until he has been shown his place in paradise and then offered the choice, to live or die.” “He will not now choose us,” She said to herself. Then she heard him murmur: “with the supreme communication in paradise, with those upon whom Allah has showed His favour, the prophets, the martyrs and the righteous…”Again she heard him murmur: “O Lord, with the supreme communication.” and these were the last words she heard him speak.
Gradually his head grew heavier upon her chest, until others in the room began to lament, and Aisha laid his head on a pillow. In the floor of Aisha’s room, near the couch where he was lying, a grave was dug in which was buried the Seal of the Prophets amid much great sorrow. Aisha lived on almost fifty years after the passing away of the Holy prophet. She passed a decade of her life with him as his wife (and shall remain his wife forever). Much of the decade long time was spent in learning and acquiring knowledge of the two most important sources of God’s guidance, the Holy Quraan and Sunnah of His Prophet. Aisha was one of three wives of the Holy Prophet who memorized the revelation, the other two being Hafsah and Umm Salamah. So far as the ahadith or sayings of the Holy Prophet concerned, Aisha is the one who transmitted more than two thousand sayings or Ahadith. Many of these pertain to some of the most intimate aspects of personal behavior, which only some one in aisha’s position could have learnt. What is most important is that her knowledge of Hadith was passed on in written form by at least three persons including her nephew Urwah who became one of the greatest scholars among the generation after the Companion.
Many of the learned companions of the Holy prophet and their followers benefited from Aisha’s knowledge. Abu Musa al-Ashari once said, “If we, the companions of the Messenger of Allah, had any difficulty on a matter, we asked Aisha about it.” Her nephew Urwah asserts that she was proficient not only in fiqh but also in medicine and poetry. Many of the senior companions of Holy prophet’s came to her to ask for advice concerning questions of inheritance, which required high skilled mathematical mind. Scholars regard her as one of the earliest fuqaha of Islam.
Aisha not only possessed great knowledge, but took an active part in education and social reform. As a teacher she had a clear and persuasive manners of speech and her power of oratory has been described in superlative terms by al-Ahnaf, who said: “I have heard speeches of Abu bakr, Umar, Usman, Ali and the caliphs up to this day, but I have not heard speech more persuasive and more beautiful from the mouth of any person than from the mouth of Aisha.” Her house thus became a school and an academy. Among her women pupils is the name of Umrah bint-e-Abdur Rahman. After Khadijah al – Kubra and Fatimah az-Zahra, Aisha is regarded as the best woman in Islam. She was leader in every field of knowledge. She often regretted her involvement in war but lived long enough to regain position as the most respected woman of her time. She died in the year 58 hijrah in the month of Ramadan and as she instructed, she was buried in Jannat al – Baqi in mAdinah beside other companions of Holy Prophet (Sall Allaho alaihe wasallam).
May Allah join us all with our beloved Prophet Mohammed s.a.v.s,his family and his companions.AMIN.
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