{"collection":"Texts of Islam","full_text_available":false,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_isl_pro_mos14_htm/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/sacred_texts_v1_isl_pro_mos14_htm","id":"sacred_texts_v1_isl_pro_mos14_htm","license":"unknown_pending_legal_review","rights_basis":"sacred_texts_v1_preview_gate_primary_text_only; acquisition-method/ToS and compilation-copyright questions still open, not resolved by this gate","source":"sacred_texts_v1","source_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/isl/pro/mos14.htm","summary":"This is a religious narrative text in the Islamic hagiographic tradition, recounting the story of \u00c2siyyah (Asiyah), the wife of the Pharaoh of Egypt. It draws on Quranic verse (Al-Tahreem 11) and hadith attributed to the Prophet Muhammad and Ibn Abbas to present \u00c2siyyah as a secret believer among the Israelites who revealed her faith after Moses's confrontation with Pharaoh's sorcerers. The central argument is that \u00c2siyyah represents a model of unbreakable faith: despite being tortured by Pharaoh for refusing to renounce her belief in God, she prayed for a home in paradise and died a martyr, reportedly laughing when God showed her her heavenly reward during her ordeal. The text also weaves in a parallel story of Ezekiel's wife, a hairdresser to Pharaoh's daughters who was martyred alongside her children \u2014 including a miraculously speaking infant \u2014 for confessing her faith. A distinctive claim is the prophetic hadith ranking \u00c2siyyah among the four greatest women of paradise alongside Khadijah, Fatimah, and Mary. The text functions as devotional literature meant to inspire steadfastness under persecution, presenting \u00c2siyyah's suffering and serenity as proof of divine favor and the reality of paradise.","tags":[],"text":null,"title":"The Prophets, Their Lives and Their Stories: Moses: The W...","tradition":"Texts of Islam","translated_text":null,"word_count":810}