She therefore created an optimal environment in which he...

She therefore created an optimal environment in which he could take maximum advantage of time, and make it productive. Khadija was abundantly gifted with empathy. She anticipated the unspoken wishes of her husband, and went ahead and did what he wished to be done. Twenty-five years of married life had produced exact point-to-point correspondence between her and her husband. In the year 10 of the Proclamation, Khadija died. The death of a loved one shows the vulnerability of mortal love.

But the love of Muhammad and Khadija was not mortal; it was immortal. When Khadija died, Muhammad's love for her did not die. In fact, his love for Khadija not only outlived her but actually went on growing even after her death. Not even the presence, in his house, of nine wives, could inhibit the growth of that love, and his love for her was always struggling to find expression.

If Khadija had shown kindness to someone at any time, and even if she had done it only once, Muhammad Mustafa remembered it, and he made it a point to show the same kindness to that person even after her death, and he did it as often as possible. In Medina, once an old woman came to see Muhammad Mustafa with some request. He greeted her cordially, showed much solicitude for her welfare, and complied with her request there and then.

When she left, Ayesha who was one of his wives, asked him who the old lady was. He said: "When Khadija and I were in Makka, this woman came from time to time to see her." In her lifetime, Khadija had shown generosity and kindness to countless people. After her death, Muhammad Mustafa did not forget those people. The recipients of the generosity and the kindness of Khadija, became, after her death, the recipients of the generosity and the kindness of her husband.

In this connection, Ayesha is reported as saying: Whenever a goat or a sheep was slaughtered (in the house), the messenger of Allah ordered its meat to be sent to the ladies who at one time had been friends of Khadija. One day I asked him why did he do so, and he said: "I love all those people who loved Khadija." (Isaba, Vol. 4, p. 283) Allah Ta'ala honored His loving slave, Khadija, and saved her from the anguish of sharing the love of her husband with other women.

Throughout the quarter-century of married life, she and she alone was the companion and friend of her husband, Muhammad Mustafa. They lived for each other and they shared the bitters and sweets of life together.