Seadet-i Ebediyye - Endless Bliss First Fascicle

when all three of them and others were present, Rasûlullah asked,
“O ’Umar! I see you are sad. What’s the reason?” As it is easy to
see the colour of ink in a bottle, so Rasûlullah used to understand
everybody’s thought at first glance. He sometimes used to question
the person when he deemed it necessary. Since it is fard for us to
tell the truth to him and even to others, Hadrat ’Umar answered,
“O Rasûlallah ‘sall-Allâhu ’alaihi wa sallam’! I offered my
daughter to Abû Bakr and to ’Uthman ‘radiy-Allâhu ’anhum’.
They wouldn’t marry her.” Rasûlullah, because he never wanted
one of his most beloved companions to be hurt, immediately said
in order to please him, “O ’Umar! Would you like it if I gave your
daughter to a person better than Abû Bakr and ’Uthmân ‘radiy-
Allâhu ’anhum’?” ’Umar was astonished. For, he knew there was
no person higher and better than hadrat Abû Bakr and ’Uthmân.
He said, “Yes, O Rasûlallah.” Rasûllullah said, “O ’Umar, give
your daughter to me!” Thus Hadrat Hafsa became the mother of
Abû Bakr, ’Uthmân ‘radiy-Allâhu ’anhum’ and of all Muslims; and
they became her servants, and Hadrat Abû Bakr, Hadrat ’Umar
and Hadrat ’Uthmân became closer to one another.
For a third example, let us explain briefly that in the fifth or
sixth year of the Hegira, Juwayriyya, who was amongst the
hundreds of slaves captured from the tribe of Banî Mustalaq, was
the daughter of Hâris, the chief of the tribe. When Rasûlullah
bought, emancipated, and married her, all his companions said,
“We would be ashamed to use as jariyahs and servants the
relatives of Rasûlullah’s wife, our mother.” They all emancipated
their slaves. This nikâh caused hundreds of captives to be
emancipated. Hadrat Juwayriyya often mentioned this fact
boastfully. Hadrat ’Âisha used to say, “I haven’t seen a woman
more auspicious than Juwayriyya.”
The fourth example is that of Zaynab-bint-Huzeyma ‘radiy-
Allâhu ’anhâ’.
Our booklet is too small to allow us to write the other
examples. The first three examples will certainly suffice for him
who has wisdom, quick understanding and, the capacity to realize
the truth. We will state also the fact that though he was the
strongest of men in every respect, he lived only with his nine wives.
And that lasted a few years. Besides, in those times he was always
busy with wars; the days when he stayed home were very few. If it
had been as priests write about it or as the dishonest, who suppose
he was like themselves, describe it, in his youth he could have had
as many women as he wanted by marrying young girls and
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