Team Fajr: Umm Sulaym bint Milhan ﵁ w/ Mufti Azeemuddin | Lives of the Companions Ep.48 | 10/17

Dear respective friends, today we are covering the life of Umm Sulaym r.a. And each of these morning, Saturday morning reflections that our mashayikh, our ulama, our colleagues present are just glimpses into the lives of some of the most illustrious people who have ever walked on the surface of this earth.

And the purpose of sharing these stories and their snippets from their life, not just from a historical perspective, but truly when we listen to this, our iman increases.

When we hear the stories of the companions of the Prophet ﷺ, it motivates us, it makes us... reshuffle our priorities and makes us begin to think, what am I chasing? Where am I headed? What is the criteria of success or failure? Every companion we know is a shining star, we know is an amazing example of success.

And every single companion is a star student of the Prophet .

And we are students as well.

of the Prophet ﷺ, although 1400 years plus later.

However, nonetheless we are children, we are spiritual children of the Prophet ﷺ, and we are definitely students of the Prophet ﷺ.

How should a spiritual child act like? How should a student of Rasulullah ﷺ look like? How should they carry themselves? This is something we are hoping to get inspired by.

And when we listen to the lives of the sahaba, what we are reminded of a very fundamental question today that we are going through.

Which is, what is the criteria? What does success mean? When everyone says, I want success in deen and dunya for my children.

There's nobody here who doesn't say that, right? We all want success in deen and dunya.

We all want our children to be...

You know, at the top in every single thing.

But what exactly does at the top mean? What does it mean that alhamdulillah our children are in a good situation or in a good place? This is a very fundamental question that we have to solve.

What is the criteria of success? What does success look like in my life? So some may think that the mere presence of wealth and extremely difficult to get in exclusive university programs, if my son or daughter is in there, then we are successful.

If they are able to marry into a wealthy family, a very beautiful family, in a very beautiful arena, in a very beautiful hall, then this is success.

Someone has boys, grandsons, this is success.

All sorts of things we have.

It's important to study the lives of the Sahaba to recognize what is success.

How much wealth did they have? How many properties did they have? What type of education did they have? Where were their priorities? But what we do know from nasr al-qat'i, what we do know from an unambiguous verse of the Qur'an, رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُمْ وَرَضُوا عَنْهُ That Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is pleased with them, and they are pleased with what Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is going to prepare for them.

We know without any doubt that the companions of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam are are a group of people who are 100% guaranteed success in the Qur'an.

Multiple places.

Allah is pleased with them, and they are gonna be pleased with what Allah is preparing for them.

So it's a very simple solution now.

When we are trying to figure out, what should I do for myself, my wife, my children, my spouse, etc.