Khadija had made
unparalleled sacrifices for Islam. Those sacrifices
"dovetailed" with the infrastructure of Islam.
They strengthened the edifice of Islam and made it
indestructible.
Khadija's sacrifices are emblazoned in history as
qualitatively and quantitatively superior to anything
anyone else in the Muslim umma might have done for Islam.
She made Islam viable by her countless and uncountable
sacrifices. There is a clear correlation between the
support she gave to her husband and the social, economic
and political success of Islam. No one else could have
played this role with such skill, love, consistency,
percipience, address and intuition as she did.
Khadija's sacrifices bore fruit after her death. Islam
was victorious in its long struggle with paganism. The
enemies of Islam were decimated, the blasphemous
arrogance of the Umayyads was humbled, and their heathen
ideology was demolished.
Khadija was one of the principal architects of the
victory of monotheism over polytheism; of faith over
materialism, and of Islam over paganism even though the
story of her role in the conflict has remained, for the
most part, "subliminal." It has existed only
outside the conscious awareness of most of the Muslims.
In A.D. 630 Muhammed
Mustafa marched into Makka as a conqueror. He and his
cousin, Ali ibn Abi Talib, entered the Kaaba, cognizant
of the Divine Commandment to Abraham and Ismael:
...AND WE COVENANTED WITH
ABRAHAM AND ISMAEL THAT THEY SHOULD SANCTIFY MY HOUSE...
(Quran Majid. Chapter 2; verse 125)
Muhammed and Ali found the
House of God in a state of defilement; it had become the
house of idols; and had to be sanctified. Therefore, in
imitation of Abraham and Ismael - their prophetic
forebears - Muhammed and Ali smashed all the idols and
obliterated all the images in the Kaaba. They sanctified
the House of God, and restored purity to it. Khadija
would have equated this act of the restoration of purity
to the Kaaba, by her husband and her son-in-law, with the
realization of her own hopes and dreams, and it would
have made her happy and proud. And how much Muhammed
Mustafa must have wished that she were with him, standing
by his side, to experience and to share the thrill of
that blessed day when the Kaaba was rededicated to the
service of Allah, after the passage of many dark
centuries.
From the moment Khadija
bore witness that God was One, and Muhammed was His
messenger, she put her words and her deeds and her life
and her death on the same "wavelength" as the
Pleasure and the Will of Allah. In correlating her work
and her aims with the Pleasure and the Will of Allah, she
found the Supreme Triumph of her sainted life.