how could she replace Allah with the Pharaoh...

how could she replace Allah with the Pharaoh, the Truth with the unTruth, light with darkness, right with wrong, the afterlife with the worldly life, Para dise with hell and happiness with wretched ness? Thus Asiya insisted on faith, repentance and turning to Allah and on the other side the Pharaoh insisted on taking her back to falseness and to his company.

When the Pharaoh saw that all the means did not make any use with Asiya to bring her back to his company, he became too angry and he felt that he had been defeated before her steadfastness. He gave his command to torture her and to crucify her and thus Asiya was hu ng with nails in her hands and legs and then after severe torment she was sentenced to death. The Pharaoh ordered his men to throw a big and heavy rock on her body but Asiya was patient before all that for the sake of Allah.

She prayed Allah, under that cruel torment, to accept her repentance and her turning to Him. Thus we find the holy Qur'an giving the example of Asiya, the wife of the Pharaoh, for all the human beings and the believing men and women as an example of noble and virtuous man. It is because of her real repentance, faith, jihad, patience, certainty, steadfastness and determination so that no excuse remains for sinful persons in every nation and atevery time.

No sinful person, after this, can say that he, in certain states and circumstances, has had noway to repent, turn to Allah, believe and do good deeds. Allah has said, “And Allah sets forth an example to those who believe the wife of Firon (Pharaoh) when she said: My Lord!

build for me a house with Thee in the garden and deliver me from Firon and his doing, and deliver me from the unjust people.” Qur'an, 66:11 Asiya has got a high position of great ness, honor and dignity for her repentance, faith, patience and straightness that the Prophet (S) has said about her, “paradise has longed for four women; Maryam (Mary) bint[^1] Imran, Asiya bint Muzahim the wife of the Pharaoh, Khadeeja bint Khuwailid, the wife of the Prophet (S) in the worldly life and in the afterlife, and Fatima bint Muhammad[^2].” The repentance of Sha’wana Mulla Ahmad an-Naraqi in his moral book Miraj as-Saada concerning real repentance mentions a wonderful story about that.

He says, “Sha’wana was a young girl. She was a dancer and she had a nice voice. She did not care for permissible or impermissible things.