For Love of the Prophet

Funny how for some people, acceptance and forgiveness and love and loyalty exists for everyone *except* the Messengers of Allah.

The gheerah I have seen for people like Amina Wadud is astounding - the level of die-hard loyalty and adoration, refusal to question anything she says or accept any critique, is the kind of gheerah that I rarely see from the same people towards RasulAllah himself.

It is beyond disturbing to think that the type of love we *should* have for God and His Chosen Messengers has been assigned to those who seem to have very little confidence in God's decisions to begin with.

Here's what I want to know: if we, as Muslim women and Muslim feminists in particular, want to invoke the names of Maryam, of Aasiyah, of Khadijah, of Sumayyah, of Nusaybah, of Hind - then should we not remember that these women not only *believed* in RasulAllah, but loved him?

Hind bint Utbah (radhiAllahu anha) - once a woman dedicated to destroying Islam - said, on the night that she swore bay'ah to Allah and His Messenger:
"By Allah, there was no house on earth that I wanted to destroy more than your house. Now, there is no house on earth that I so dearly wish to honor and raise in glory than yours."

Thus was Hind - a woman of greater ferocity and honour and strength than any modern day Muslim feminist.

The greatest women of history pledged their love and allegiance to Allah and His Messenger; Allah elevated them *due* to their love for Him and His Messengers.

Who are we to ever imagine reaching their heights, without love for the ones they loved?

The Messenger of Allah said: “No one of you truly believes until I am dearer to their than their father, their son, their own self and all the people.” (Narrated by al-Bukhaari, 15; Muslim, 44.)