clamour, no fatigue, and no idle or frivolous talk, as Allah the Exalted says: “Therein they will hear no vain speech and no sinful utterance” and, “Their greeting therein will be: Peace.” All their words, then, are wholesome, for they live in the neighbourhood of the Most Pure, glorified and exalted. They themselves are pure, abiding in the Gardens of Eden, in splendid dwellings beside the All-Pure, glorified and exalted—just as their hearts in this world were pure and their deeds were pure, for Allah accepts only that which is pure, and so their actions were accepted. The same will be true for them in the Hereafter.

Thus Khadijah’s pavilion will contain no clamour, no toil, no weariness at all. It will never need sweeping or any other upkeep; everything in it is pristine goodness. This is a glad-tiding for the Mother of the Believers, Khadijah—may Allah be pleased with her.

Khadijah, Mother of the Believers, was the first woman the Prophet—peace and blessings be upon him—married. He wed her when he was twenty-five years old and she was forty, having previously been married. She bore him his four daughters and two—some say three—sons. He did not marry any other woman during her lifetime, until she passed away—may Allah be pleased with her. She was intelligent, shrewd, and wise, possessed of renowned noble qualities that anyone can find recorded in the books of history. She is often set side by side with ʿA’ishah—may Allah be pleased with her—meaning that ʿA’ishah was the most virtuous of the Prophet’s wives and the one he loved most. Scholars have differed over which of the two held the higher rank: some said ʿA’ishah, while others said Khadijah.