Introduction

 How manu a time when a woman will surpass the men in righteous words and action? She outstrips them in the worship of her Lord, in the aid or her religion, in spending in charity and in the knowledge. If you flip thoug the pages of history, you will discover women have outstripped the men in many ways.

The first person to live in the Haram (saced precinct) of Makkah, drank from the water of ZamZam and ran between the Mount Safa and Marwa, was a woman; Hajar; the mother of Ismaa´eel. This first person to accept Islam, helped the Prophet salla alayhi wa sallam in his cause was also a woman; Khadeejah; the Mother of the Believers. The first person to reviece torture for the sake of her Lord until she was martyred in the path of Allah was a woman named Sumayyah; the mother of Ammaar ibn Yaasir.

The Prophet salla alayhi wa sallam has witnessed the admittance into Paradise of a number of women and they include the following.