Hazrat Aasiyah (Radhiyallahu Anha)

Last updated on April 20th, 2025 at 06:09 am

Hazrat Aasiyah was the wife of Fir’oun, the king of Egypt who claimed to be God. The wonder of Allah that the husband is a shaitaan, whilst the wife is such a waliyyah who has been praised in the Qur’aan, and whose greatness was mentioned by our Nabi (Sallallahu alaihi wasallam) in this manner: “There are many men who achieved perfection (in Imaan), but among women only Maryam and Aasiyah reached the stage of perfection.”

(This praise pertains to the Nations of before, not to the women of this Ummat.)

Hazrat Aasiyah was the one who saved the life of Hazrat Musa (Alaihis Salaam) in infancy from the tyrant, Fir’oun.

It was written in her destiny to believe in Musa (Alaihis Salaam), and from the childhood of Musa (Alaihis Salaam) she was overcome with love for him.

When Musa (Alaihis Salaam) became a Prophet, Fir’oun did not accept, however she accepted. When Fir’oun came to find out, then he punished her severely and tortured her in many ways, but she never let go of her Imaan. In this way, she left this world. (Radhiyallahu anha.)

Lessons

1. Ladies! Look at how firm she was on her Imaan!
2. She had an irreligious kaafir king as a husband who did everything to [force] her [to give up her Imaan], but she did not go along with him.
3. Now, for any small thing women utter words of kufr.
4. Ladies! Imaan is a very precious thing.
5. No matter what difficulty you undergo, don’t do anything against the Deen.
6. If any of your husband does something irreligious, don’t go along with him.
7. In that time, marriage to a kaafir man used to be valid, but now in our Shariat the ruling is that if a man is a kaafir then nikaah with him is not valid.
8. If the marriage was before he became a kaafir then now the nikaah breaks.

(Behshti Zewar)