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All praise is due to Allah. We praise Him and thank Him. We repent to Him

and seek for His forgiveness. We seek refuge from Allah from the evils of our own

souls and from the consequences of our misdeeds. No one can mislead whomever

Allah guides and no one can guide whomsoever Allah causes to go astray.

We testify that none has the right to be worshipped but Allah alone. He has

no partner. His is the dominion and the praise. It is He who gives life and death and

He has power over all things. Exalted and far is He above what they ascribe to

Him.

We equally testify that our leader and model, Muhammad, is Allah's Servant

and Messenger, sallallaahu `alayhi wa sallam. Allah sent him with guidance and

the religion of truth that He may make it prevail over all other religions and make

him erase the effects of the time of ignorance that have become oppressive and

widespread. The Messenger of Allah, sallallaahu `alayhi wa sallam, delivered the

message, fulfilled the trust, wished the Ummah well and fought in the way of Allah

as it was due. He left us on a brilliant path whose night is as clear as its day. It is

only the doomed that can deviate from that path.

Peace and blessings be upon him, his family, the Companions and their

successors and all those who rightly follow them till the Day of Judgment.

Indeed, the first person to believe in Allah as the Lord and in Muhammad,

sallallaahu `alayhi wa sallam, as the Messenger and Prophet was his wife,

Khadeejah, may Allah be pleased with her. She was the first person to support the

Messenger of Allah, sallallaahu `alayhi wa sallam. She strengthened him, assured

him and consoled him. She received the Prophet and his message with her big

heart.

After her, many women embraced Islam, not in compliance with their

husbands' will or out of tribal solidarity or in obedience to their fathers' command.

Rather, these women, in most cases, embraced Islam independently, out of

conviction and in demonstration of their right of choice.





If there are men companions, there are also women companions. If there are

`Men around the Messenger' there are also `Women around the Messenger'.

Each of these women played her role in the best possible way and in the

noblest way in the arena of faith and sincerity. These women excellently

maintained necessary balance between the two segments of humanity: male and

female. They stand out as outstanding models in the history of humanity in a way

that made them unrivalled in the history of nations from the time of Aadam, may

Allah exalt his mention, until Allah inherits the earth and all that is on it.

This important and critical aspect in the life of Allaah's Messenger,

sallallaahu `alayhi wa sallam, the message that he was carrying, the journey of

Islam in its first step and the appearance of the dawn of Islam after the stark

darkness in which the entire humanity was living then needs to be written down for

many reasons.

One of the diseases of our contemporary age with all its achievements and

setbacks, with its scientific breakthrough and cultural defects is that the woman has

been turned to a `doll' or something like a doll in all the senses of the word. I do

not think that I have exaggerated in this.

Take for instance, the advertisement of any product in any of the mass

media, the woman is disgustingly, cheaply and flimsily dragged into this

advertisement even if the product is just the necktie that men wear. This is in

addition to her being used as an instrument of sexual arousal.

This is just an example of how the woman has been reduced to a cheap

commodity. There are other uncountable examples of this, facilitated through

satanic hands.

It is unfortunate this horrible disease has crept into the midst of the Muslims

under the guise of cultural interrelation and in total disregard for our purity and

distinguishing values and for many other uncountable reasons.

It is also astonishing that reawakening Muslims should dedicate a lot of their

intellectual and practical efforts to help man develop his intellectual, spiritual and

physical qualities while little attention is paid to woman. This is in spite of their

sure knowledge that the woman is the foundation of family structure













This is the women’s lib age as the West preform to term it. But is it true? Is it not a lipservice age turning women practically to dolls or something like reallife dolls ?

Women entering the fold of Islam played an enviable prominent role, side by side their counterparts, in shaping and developing the Muslim society as a model from the onset, emancipating humanity, men and women, from the shackles of deeprooted ignorance. Women in Islam have a very special place, status, and dignity that is unknown to mankind before or after.

The women in this book are listed in categories, such as Mothers of the Prophet , Wives of the Prophet , The Prophet’s Daughters , and many more categories.