01-25-2007, 09:53 PM
KHANSA EXHORTS HER SONS
Khansa (radhiallaho anho) is a famour poetess. She embraced Islam in Medina along with some other of her clan. Ibn-Athir writes:
" All masters of literature are unanimous in declaring Khansa as the best women poet in Arabic. No women in history has ever written such fine poetry as Khansa."
During the time if U'mar in 16 A.H. the famous battle of "Qadsiah" was fought between the Muslims and the Persians. Khansah along with her four sons took part in the battle. On the ever of the battle she exhorted all her four sons saying:
" O, My sons ! You embrace Islam and emigrated with your own free will. By Allah, beside whom there is no God, you all are the sons of the same father as you are the sons of the same mother. I never betrayed your father nor defamed you maternal uncle. I never allowed a blot to come on your high birth nor polluted your pedigree. You know what rewards Allah has promised for those who fight with the disbelievers in His path. You must remember that the everlasting life of the hereafter is far better than the transitory life of this world. Allah has said in his Holy Qur'an.
" O. ye who believe ! Endure, outdo in endurance, be ready and observe your duty to Allah in order that Ye may succeed. (III : 200) When you get up to-morrow morning be prepared to cintribute your best in the battle. Go ahead into the enemy lines seeking help for Allah. When you see the flames of war rising high you get right in to the center and face the enemy chiefs. Inshallah you will get your abode in paradise with honour and success."
Next day when the battle was in full swing all the four sons advanced toward the enemy lines. One by one they attacked the enemy reciting the words of their mother in verses and fought till all of them were slain. When the mother got the news she said:
" Alhamdulillah ! Glory to Allah will unite me with them under the shade of His Mercy."
Here is a mother of that time. She exhorts her sons to hump into the flames of battle and when all the sons are killed in quick succession she glorifies Allah and thanks Him.
look at her marriage in the battle-field and her fight with the enemy ! Insted of mourning the loss of her husband on the day of his death she rushes into the battle-field and kill seven of the enemy soldiers single-handed. Is this not enough to show the wonderful strength of Iman of ladies of that time?