BRIDAL CONTEST

Chapter 9

Salaam, teemaf this chappie is for you. For reminding me that some people are on my wait-list.

History, Quranic Verses and Hadiths are highlighted and in Italics. Enjoy

Immediately after Zuhr prayer, the ladies made their way to Rawdhatul Jannah to pay homage to the Prophet Muhammad peace be upon him and his two companions (and fathers-in-law) , Caliph Abubakar Assadik and Caliph Umar bin khattab may Allah be pleased with them.

Rawdatul-Jannah, literally means Garden of paradise.

It was recorded that Prophet Muhammad, may peace and blessings of Allah be upon him said "Between my house and my pulpit (minbar) there is a garden from the gardens of paradise" [Al-Bukhari and Muslim].

But, because the masjid has been consequently expanded it covers between his minbar (pulpit) and burial chamber. A green carpet distinguishes the area from the rest of the mosque which is covered in red carpet.

Green dome.
The area adjacent to the rawdah is the tomb of the prophet, peace be upon him and his two companions. Although this area is only accessible through the male side of the mosque, in the female side it is part of the rawdah.

Towards the tomb of the prophet, they offered their Salaam and send Allah's blessings to him, rasulallah returns (every) salaam as evident by the hadith (but not audible to the human ear) :

It was narrated from Abu Hurayrah that the Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: "There is no one who sends salaams upon me, but Allaah will restore to me my soul so that I may return his salaams."(Saheeh Sunan Abi Dawood).

They said salaam to the Caliphs and also send blessings of Allah to them. Before moving farther away to offer two rakaats nawafil (tahiyattul masjid) and supplicate to their lord for what they want in this world and the hereafter, in the garden of paradise!

Day 4 passed by in a blur with some of them staying at the hotel and the others going for shopping.

Day 5.

Mount Uhud, in front of which the second battle in Islam (the Battle of Uhud) took place in 3 AH. Of this mountain the Prophet (ﷺ) declared, "This mountain loves us and we love it." [Muslim]

After the humiliating defeat in the Battle of Badr a year earlier, the Quraysh of Makkah made preparations to muster a great army to fight the Muslims again and take revenge. They assembled an army of 3000 soldiers with 300 camels, 200 horses and 700 coats of mail. Wives and daughters of slained chiefs in Badr accompanied the army to see with their own eyes the spectacle of the killers being killed. Hind, the daughter of Utbah was the leader of the womens section and her husband Abu Sufyan was the commander-in-chief of the Makkan army. Both were not Muslims at that time but bitter enemies of Islam. The left and right flanks were commanded by Ikrimah ibn Abi Jahl and Khalid bin Waleed respectively. Amr ibn al-As was named the commander of cavalry and his task was to co-ordinate attack between the cavalry wings. (All three subsequently became Muslims and become great generals of Islam).

The Prophet (ﷺ) left Madinah for the valley of Mount Uhud with a Muslim army of only 700 and drew up his troops for battle. Zubair bin al-Awwam (may Allah be pleased with him) was the commander of the right wing and Mundhir bin Amr (may Allah be pleased with him) was given the left wing of the army. Hamza (may Allah be pleased with him), the uncle of the Prophet (ﷺ) was made the advance guard, Mus'ab bin Umair (may Allah be pleased with him) was chosen as the standard-bearer of Islam and Abu Dujanah (may Allah be pleased with him) was fortunate enough to receive the Prophet's sword (which was known as Zulfikar).