The Four Complete Women

By OMER SULAYMAN

'Abdullah bin 'Abbas (Allah be pleased with him) narrated that one day the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) drew four lines on the ground and asked his companions if they understood what these lines stood for. They respectfully replied that he knew better. He then told them that these lines stood for the four foremost ladies of the universe. They were Khadijah bint Khawaylid, Fatimah bint Muhammad, Maryam bint Imran, the mother of Prophet Isa (peace be upon him), and 'Asiya bint Mazahim (Pharaoh's wife).

 

There is a whole surah (chapter) in the Quran called An Nisa'a (The Women). Surah An Nisa'a is also one of the longer surahs in the Quran. Women are not half or quarter of the society, but they are the whole society because they take care of their children and their husband. A house will be paradise when the woman is righteous and a house is hell when the woman is not, and this shows that the stability of the house depends on the woman, subhan-Allaah (Glory be to Allaah).

 

Alhamdulillaah (praise be to Allaah) that our Creator is Allaah and Alhamdulillaah He is Rabb Al-'Aalameen (the Lord of the Worlds). He nourishes us and this is an opening from Allaah (the Almighty) to nourish us through knowledge and to teach us about the four complete women. 

 

Beautiful notes from a lecture, prepared by a sister greatly helped in writing this beautiful book about these four greatest and most complete women that ever lived in this world.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Heaven on Earth Publications
• Release date: Sep 21, 2022
• ISBN: 9798215011225

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Introduction

'Abdullah bin 'Abbas (Allah be pleased with him) narrated that one day the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) drew four lines on the ground and asked his companions if they understood what these lines stood for. They respectfully replied that he knew better. He then told them that these lines stood for the four foremost ladies of the universe. They were Khadijah bint Khawaylid, Fatimah bint Muhammad, Maryam bint Imran, the mother of Prophet Isa (peace be upon him), and 'Asiya bint Mazahim (Pharaoh's wife).

There is a whole surah (chapter) in the Quran called An Nisa'a (The Women). Surah An Nisa'a is also one of the longer surahs in the Quran.

Women are not half or quarter of the society, but they are the whole society because they take care of their children and their husband. A house will be paradise when the woman is righteous and a house is hell when the woman is not, and this shows that the stability of the house depends on the woman, subhan-Allaah (Glory be to Allaah).

Alhamdulillaah (praise be to Allaah) that our Creator is Allaah and Alhamdulillaah He is Rabb Al-'Aalameen (the Lord of the Worlds). He nourishes us and this is an opening from Allaah (the Almighty) to nourish us through knowledge and to teach us about the four complete women.

The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said, The lady who prays her five prayers, fasts her Ramadan, protects her chastity and obeys her husband, then she will enter Paradise from any gate she wishes. (Mishkat Al Misbah 3190, authenticated by Al Albani as Hasan).

These are the four golden rules (praying her five prayers, fasting her Ramadan, protecting her chastity and obeying her husband), subhan-Allaah. She will enter from any of the eight gates of Paradise.

Imagine if a lady follows these four golden rules and she does additional voluntarily actions – this is light on light for her.

If a person were to search the internet for a complete woman, she would either come up with a lady with what some consider to be a great outward appearance or a lady with a successful career. But the four complete women that Allaah (the Almighty) tells us have the common factor of servitude to Allaah (the Almighty). Your perfection is when you obey Allaah. All four ladies mentioned as complete were devoted to Allaah (the Almighty) and they served their homes - they were good to their husbands and children.

Asiya, Firaoun's (Pharoah’s) wife, is complete because of her patience with the decree of having a tyrant husband. She was patient and asked Allaah to build her a home in paradise and protect her from her husband’s evil.

Khadija (Allaah be pleased with her) was the wife of the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him), she was a businesswoman, but what made her complete? Her support for her husband. She never put him down or ignored him - she gave him her full attention. Don't say she is lucky and Asiya is unlucky. Allaah knows you and He knows what is good for you. It's not about luck or bad luck. Allaah (the Almighty) knows what is good for everyone.

Every person has a strength and goodness in them, and when you obey Allaah (the Almighty) this strength will show, subhan Allaah. All the decrees you go through in life are to bring