Aasiyah r.a (Women of Jannah, Continuation)

Part 5: Aasiyah r.a (Women of Jannah)

"My Lord, build for me near You a house in Paradise and save me from Pharaoh and his deeds and save me from the wrongdoing people." [Surah Tahrim 66:11]

Our Women are our Motivation if they knew their status in this Religion of faith.

The steadfastness of Hairdresser of Firaun had amazed the eyes and heart of Asiya r.a and this time it was Asiya r.a who walked up to Firaun and said "Look Firaun, I disbelieve in you and believe in the Lord of Moosa and Haroon(A.s), You do whatever you want and I don't care". Firaun was left with shock on hearing this and he was compelled to force her to leave the religion she opted. He started to torture her, whip her, persecute her and thought that he would bring her back to his control.

At this point its really admirable to see Asiya r.a keep herself calm, even in such great pain and distress because unlike others she had never ever faced any hardship and even after the marriage to Firaun she had become a queen and even her lightest requirement where fulfilled by maids and she had to put no effort in it.

This steadfastness can only be defined as the unconditional love of a servant towards her creator, the narration mentions that Firaun ordered Aasiyah r.a to be dragged to the desert and nailed to the floor. He put nails throughout her body and affix her to the floor under the scorching sun. She was then deprived of food, water, shade, and the daughters of Fir’oun’s concubines would come daily to laugh and taunt her. After days of torture, Aasiyah (RA) looked to the sky and said the words which Allah himself describes in his Quran;

.وَضَرَبَ اللَّهُ مَثَلًا لِّلَّذِينَ آمَنُوا امْرَأَتَ فِرْعَوْنَ إِذْ قَالَتْ رَبِّ ابْنِ لِي عِندَكَ بَيْتًا فِي الْجَنَّةِ وَنَجِّنِي مِن فِرْعَوْنَ وَعَمَلِهِ وَنَجِّنِي مِنَ الْقَوْمِ الظَّالِمِينَ

Allah accepted her dua While she was whipped and tortured, the angels shaded her, and the more she was tortured, the more her Eeman grew. She would look up and see her palace and laughed until Fir’oun got frustrated and said: " Kill this Madwoman" then she was taken to a mountain and tied up beneath a cliff. He ordered his guards to drop the largest boulder they could onto her body, and they did – but before the large rock could hit her Allah SWT took her soul. this was the heroic end of the Legacy woman Aasiyah r.a.

The story even though has many lessons of steadfastness for us to admire upon, I had to make only one point that a true believer could not even bear an injustice done to another believer, The Injustice done to Mashita r.a influenced Aasiyah r.a to dissent the tyrant and expose her faith and also to fearlessly face all the hardships which she hadn't seen ever in her lifetime. The unmeasurable love towards her Allah made her laugh at the face of death which even to this date has engraved in the pages of history as the greatest sacrifice world has ever witnessed. A Woman in Islam is a legacy on its own. and History of such legacy needs to be repeated.