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Khadijah & Prophet Muhammad
Maryan Maalim
Khadijah was one of the noblest women around the Arabic world. She came from a very important family.
She was a beautiful girl, and she was a business woman. To marry her would have been a great feat for
any man; many men asked for her hand in marriage, but she rejected them. It was 580 CE when
Muhammad came into her life.
Muhammad was 25; he came from a normal family and he was not a man of many means. Muhammad
was the most honest man around. That is why she was interested in him. That is what attracted her to
him. She was looking for someone honest who would conduct business for her, as she, a woman could not
do it herself. So, he started working for her.
After Muhammad came back from his first business trip, Khadijah asked her servant, who she sent with
him, about him and his conduct. The servant amazed her with his report; this young man was the kindest,
gentlest man he had ever met. Never did he treat the servant harshly, as many others did. Khadijah was
impressed by her new employee.
This new employee was a good businessman, too. He was good at buying and selling, with producing
more and then buying to sell again. All this was enough for her to make the embers of love in her heart
shine, and she wanted to marry this man who was 15 years younger than her.
And then Khadijah sent her sister to prophet Muhammad, and she asked, “Why don’t you marry? He said,
“For lack of means.” She asked if she can offer him a wife, and he asked, “Who can that girl can be that she
will accept me?” When she told him that it was Khadijah, He asked, “How can I marry her? She said, “Don’t
worry, I will take care of that.”
And then they married and they became the happiest family.
Information Source:
http://navedz.wordpress.com/2009/04/03/prophet_muhammad_saw__khadijah_ra_the_greatest_love/