veiled4allah: women, ask and ye shall receive

Umm Salama said, "O Messenger of Allah, Allah does not mention women in connection with migration". Allah sent down the ayah, And their Lord seeks to answer them, "I do not lose the work of a worker from you, male or female. The one of you is of the same nature as the other one. Then those who emigrate or go out from their residence and were injured in My way, and fought and were killed, I expiate from them their evil deeds and will enter them in Paradise, under which rivers flow, a reward from with God". And God, with Him is the most beautiful of rewards (Surah Ali Imran ayah 195)

This ayah explains the type of answer Allah gave them, stating that no deed of any person is ever lost with Him. Rather, He will completely reward each person for his or her good deeds. Allah's statement means 'you are all equal in relation to gaining My reward'

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Umm Salama said, "I said to the Prophet, 'Why is it that we (women) are not mentioned in the Quran as men are?' Then one day without my realizing it, he was calling from the Minbar and I was combing my hair, so I tied my hair back then I went out to my chamber in my house, and I started listening out, and he was saying from the Minbar: Surely the Muslim men and the Muslim women, and the faithful men and the faithful women, and the devout men and the devout women, and the honest men and the honest women, and the enduring men and the enduring women, and the humble men and the humble women, and the men giving to charity and the women giving to charity, and the fasting men and the fasting women, and the men guarding their modesty and the women guarding their modesty, and the men remembering God much and the women remembering - God prepares for them all a place of forgiveness and a mighty wage (Surah al-Ahzab ayah 35)

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