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Welcome Br. Duane 
JazakAllah Abuayisha for the link. What a heroic act of Khawlah bint Hakim ! Got to learn more of her.
Duane, as you answered of Saffiyah RA . Yes, we do get to read of her bravery.
But what i read was this
If we look at history closely, we see that women rescued the Muslims in very hard situations. In the battle of Yarmouk, the great leader Khaled Ibn Al Walid couldn�t put a war plan. Only after he put a central role for the women because the Muslims were thirty thousand and the Romans a hundred thousand, he asked the women to make the last row behind the Moslem men, and he ordered every woman to hit every passing-by man (who was attempting to run away) with the stick of the tent. And that�s what they really did. Alzubair Ibnul-Awam, who is the bravest of the brave said, �By Allah, the Romans were not harder on us than the Muslim women�. And it seems that Khaled in his genius thinking, realized that the Muslims would run, and their numbers did not outstand those of the Romans. And indeed, around one hour after the battle started, the man began to run away. To their surprise found the women hitting them with tent sticks. Who do you think was leading the women?
It was Hind, the daughter of Outaib, the one who ate the liver of Hamza. She was the one that had malice and bitterness in her heart for Islam, but she was the one who defended Islam so bravely. She used to scream at the top of her voice, �Where are you, oh protectors of Islam? Are you running away from paradise?� Her words hurt them more than the sticks. And she approached her husband Abu Sufyan and said, �Where are you running to Abu Sufyan, isn�t it enough what you did to the Prophet of Allah? Do something for Allah so that he may forgive you your bad deeds!� She was the same one who said, �Kill that fat keen man�, when her husband said, �Whoever enters the house of Abu Sufyan is secure�� Watch the change in her life.
Abu Sufyan went on fighting until he lost his eye in the battle. When he came to her with only one eye, she said to him, �Now you can go to the Prophet of Allah (PBUH) and tell him that you have tried to do good deeds so that Allah may forgive you for the bad ones�. From there, we see that the hard battle of Yarmouk to open Syria, Damascus, and Jordan was a victory because of the women.
Edited by seekshidayath - 01 April 2009 at 11:05pm
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