FW: Protective Jealousy is the Characteristic of the Noble - II

> Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2012 13:11:14 +0800
> Subject: Protective Jealousy is the Characteristic of the Noble - II
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> The Protective Jealousy of the Husband over his Wife
> As stated previously, it was narrated that Sa‘d ibn ‘Ubaadah said, “If
> Iwere to see a man with my wife, I would strike him with a sword, and
> not with the flat side of it.” When the Messenger of Allaah heard
> this, hesaid: “Are you surprised at Sa‘d's jealousy over hishonor? By
> Allaah, I am more jealous over my honor than he is over his,and Allaah
> is more jealous than I am.” [Al-Bukhaari and Muslim]
> It was narrated that when the rebels entered into the presence of
> ‘Uthmaan ibn ‘Affaan his wife Naa’ilah, spread her hair out as she was
> entreating the chivalry ofthe rebels. Thereupon ‘Uthmaan shouted at
> her, and said, “Cover yourself! By Allaah, death is easier for me than
> the violation of the sanctity of your hair.” Therefore, the husband's
> protective jealousy over his wife motivates him to protect and
> safeguard her from anything that might harm her honor or disrespect
> her dignity.
> The Protective Jealousy of the Wife over her Husband
> One day the Prophet asked ‘Aa’ishah : “Are you jealous?” She replied
> in astonishment, “And how could someone like me not become jealous
> over someone like you?” [Muslim] It was narrated on the authority of
> Anas that he said,
> While the Prophet wasin the house of one of hiswives, one of the
> Mothersof the Believers sent a meal in a dish. The wife at whose house
> the Prophet was, struck the hand of the servant, causing the dish to
> fall and break. The Prophet gathered the broken pieces of the dish and
> then started collecting the food on them which had been in the dish,
> andsaid: “Your mother [my wife] felt jealous.” Then he detained the
> servant until an [unbroken] dish was brought from the wife at whose
> house he was. He gave the unbroken dish to the wife whose dish had
> been broken and kept the broken one at the house where it had been
> broken. [Al-Bukhaari]
> Incidents that Were Motivated by Manly Zeal
> Narrating the events of the 286th Hirji year, Al-Haafith Ibn Katheer
> quoted what was mentioned in Al-Muntathim,
> From the wonders that occurred during that year, a woman sued her
> husband before the judge of Ar-Rayy [a city inmodern day Iran]. She
> claimed that she had 500 Dinars as her deferred portion of her dowry,
> buther husband denied this. She managed to get proof to support her
> plea. She was then told that she had to uncover her face in order to
> makesure that she was the wife. When this was insisted upon, the
> husband became jealous and said, “Do not uncover her face. She is
> truthful in her claim.” He confessed that her claim was true in order
> to avoid other people seeing his wife's face. When the wife realized
> what had happened and that he had confessed so that others would not
> seeher face, she said: “I absolve him of the deferred portion of my
> dowry in this world and in the Hereafter.”
> Al-Haafith As-Sam‘aani added in Al-Ansaab, “Having admired their
> jealousy, the judge said: ‘This incident is to be added to the
> historical record of noble manners.’”
> Some historians mentioned the following incident as one of the good
> deeds of Al-Hajjaaj ibn Yoosuf Ath-Thaqafi: Itwas narrated that a
> Muslim woman was taken captive in India and she pleaded for the help
> of Al-Hajjaaj, and said, “O Hajjaaj!” When the news reached him, he
> replied, “At your call!” He spent seven million Dirhams to be able to
> rescue her.
> Then there is the story of a noble Muslim woman who was captured by
> theRomans. The only relation between her andthe Caliph,
> Al-Mu‘tasim-billaah, was the brotherhood of Islam. When she was
> tortured by the prince of ‘Amooriyah, she cried for his help and
> released a shout that was so huge that its echo was recorded in
> history. She cried, “O Mu‘tasim!” He received the news of her cry
> while he was resting. He immediately responded, saying, “At your
> call!” He mobilized ahuge army of Muslim soldiers, who set off
> withhim. Each one of them was filled with pride and enthusiasm due to
> the manly zeal over the honor of this woman. They defeated the enemies
> and marched closer and closer to their country, breaking into their
> fortresses until they reached ‘Amooriyah and destroyed its fortresses.
> They marched until they reached the captured woman and, thereupon,
> Al-Mu‘tasim said to her, “Iask you to testify before your great
> grand-father, the Messenger of Allaah on the Day of Judgment that I
> came to rescue you.”
> In the seventh century after Hijrah, disunity struck the Muslims such
> that they became weak. Therefore, the crusaders conquered parts of
> their countries and aspired forfurther occupation. They sought the
> help of one group of Muslims against the other until they almost
> conquered Egypt. The Fatimide ruler of Egypt during that time,
> Al-‘Aadhid lideen-illaah, thought to seek the help of the governor of
> Ash-Shaam, Noor Ad-Deen Zinki, but how could he accept when theking of
> Ash-Shaam himself did not recognizethe caliphate of the Fatimide ruler
> in Egypt and denied the legitimacy of his governance and rule? He was
> an affiliate to the caliphate of the Abbasids in Baghdad, who were
> struggling with the Fatimides. Al-‘Aadhid decided to use manly
> zealover Muslim women and their honor in order to solve the problem:
> He sent a message to Noor Ad-Deen Zinki seeking hisaid and accompanied
> it with the most influential summons: the locks of hair of his
> womenfolk in the caliphate in Cairo. This had a strong impact on Noor
> Ad-Deens's heart. It aroused feelings of jealousy and chivalry in the
> hearts of the soldiers of Ash-Shaam as well as its people. To rescue
> Egypt from the crusaders, they sacrificed the best of their soldiers
> under the leadership of Asad Ad-Deen Shirkooh and Yoosuf ibn Ayyoob
> (Salaah Ad-Deen Al-’Ayyoobi). That was theinfluence that a lock of a
> woman's hair had, whichchanged the course of history. This was
> followed by the battle of Hitteen during which the sacred land
> (Palestine) was cleansed from disgrace and the crusaders were forced
> to leave.
> While Muslims live by andenjoy these feelings of jealousy and manly
> zeal in their societies, which elevates their ranks way above the
> stars and raises them to the most sublime of ranks in virtueand
> purity, the non-Muslim societies in the East and the West experience
> the life of weak men (Dayyooths) and procurers, filth and impurities,
> indecency and disgrace, humiliationand shame. Indeed, someanimals
> would refuse to experience such a life: Some male animals get jealous
> over their females, and in order to protect her, the male fights
> others until the strongest one of them finally wins. How truthfulour
> prominent scholars were when they said, “Every nation whose menhave
> weak manly zeal, itswomen do not properly maintain their chastity.”