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So when Asiya saw Musa ‘alayhi alsalam, she instantly fell in love with him and this baby that fell into her hands was even more special because Asiya ‘alayha alsalam was unable to have children. The ‘ulama say the wisdom of that is obviously that Musa ‘alayhi alsalam would be taken in as if he was her child. On top of that, that Allah (SWT) would not allow a child to be born to Asiya and Firaoun. It just wouldn’t make sense. That Firaoun would have the pleasure of having a child through Asiya.

So Asiya ‘alayha al salam, brings this baby, she falls in love with this baby, and she says to Firaoun, let us keep this baby , “” [] – he will be the coolness of my eyes and the coolness of your eyes. And Firaoun obviously wants to put Musa ‘alayhi al salam through a test, because he had already killed all of the babies that were born to Bani Israel that year. So he wants to put musa ‘alayhi al salam to a test to make sure that he won’t be capable of overthrowing him as he saw in a dream that he would be overthrown by a child that was born to Bani Israel that year.

So he puts him through these tests and Musa ‘alayhi al salam is raised in this palace of Firaoun and Asiya. And Asiya dedicates herself to Musa ‘alayhi al salam as if she is indeed his mother. She raises him, she continues to love him, and subhanAllah, eventually as we know the story goes, she brings in the mother of Musa ‘alayhi al salam, not knowing that she is the mother of Musa ‘alayhi alsalam to be a wet nurse for Musa ‘alayhi al salam. Musa ‘alayhi al salam mother was reunited with him and on top of that Asiya ‘alayha al salam had the pleasure and the honor of raising this child Musa ‘alayhi al salam in her own palace.

As times goes on and Musa ‘alayhi al salam comes out and Musa ‘alayhi al salam shows that he is a Prophet and calls to Tawid, and Firaoun is infuriated. Firaoun is in this battle now with Musa ‘alayhi al salam. Asiya immediately believed in the message that was given to Musa alayhi al salam. She immediately believed in Tawhid and she started to practice the religion of Musa alayhi al salam on a personal level without Firaoun recognizing that she was amongst the monotheists and she was amongst those that were following the message of Musa ‘alayhi al salam.

Why?

Because if Firaoun mutilates children and has women raped the way that he does for believing in Allah, then what would he do to his wife? What sense of betrayal would he feel if he saw his own wife accepted that message of Musa ‘alayhi al salam.

As time goes on however, there is an incident that would lead to Asiya coming out and exposing her Islam. And that was the incident that is known as the incident of the hairdresser of the daughter of Firaoun. And the hairdresser of the daughter of Firaoun one day she was doing her hair and she dropped a comb. And when she dropped the comb, she said “bismAllah” , “in the name of Allah.”

And Firaoun’s daughter, obviously from another wife, or a concubine other than Asiya, she said to the hairdresser, “أبي الله؟” [abee Allah?] – My father? The hairdresser responded and said no. The Lord of your father and the Lord of me and the Lord of you, Allah (SWT). So the daughter goes back to Firaoun and says to Firaoun, and narrates this incident to Firaoun.

Firaoun doesn’t think twice, he doesn’t have an ounce, or an atom’s worth of mercy in his heart. Firaoun orders for a pit to be dug and copper to burned in that pit so that that woman and all her children could be thrown into that pit in front of everyone. Firaoun wanted to make an example out of everyone who believed. And subhanAllah Allah (SWT) made an example out of him for all time.

To even where his corpse has been preserved so that we can see the humiliation that he was put through. But he wanted to make an example out of this woman. So Firaoun calls the town and Asiya is obviously witnessing this incident. This woman has all of her children and she is a poor woman. And Firaoun says that I am going to throw each and every single one of your children into this pit. And the woman says, ‘I have a request from you oh Firaoun.” He says, What is that request? She says, “the request is that whenever you finish burning us is that you gather our bones in one cloth.” SubhanAllah! Look at how much this mother loves her children which makes the test even greater. And Firaoun says, “لك ذلك” [laki dhaalik]- you have that request honored. So one by one Firaoun started to throw her children into that boiling oil and they were parishing right in front of her until it came down to just her and the baby that was in her arms that she was suckling.

And she became hesitant because she didn’t want to throw this baby into the fire. And the baby spoke, and rasool Allah (SAWS) said that this is one of the babies that Allah (SWT) caused to speak amongst 3 babies.

You can try to figure out who the other 2 babies were. This baby spoke and said to the mother, “Go ahead and jump. Throw me in.” “فإن عذاب الدنيا أهون من عذاب الآخرة” [Fa ‘inna ‘adhaab al dunya ‘ahwan min ‘athaab al akhira.] – Because torture and punishmed in this world is much lighter than the torture and he punishment in the hereafter. And so she takes this baby and she jumps with her baby into this pit and she parishes.

To be continued...