Assalamu’alaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh,
Have you ever stayed silent
not because you didn’t believe —
but because speaking felt too costly?
Costly to your comfort.
Your position.
Your peace.
Asiyah understood that cost.
She lived in a palace where everything the world promises was present:
power, wealth, protection, luxury.
Yet peace did not live there.
She witnessed cruelty becoming normal.
She saw truth becoming dangerous.
And she understood what believing would cost her.
When the message of Musa reached her,
she believed.
Not because her life was falling apart.
Not because comfort had failed her.
But because once truth is recognised,
the heart
must choose.
Her faith was not an escape from hardship.
It was a refusal to participate in wrongdoing.
Allah does not preserve the details of her suffering.
He preserves her du’a.
“My Lord, build for me with You a house in Jannah.”
(Surah At-Tahrim 66:11)
She did not begin by asking to be saved.
She began by asking for
nearness.
Her du’a teaches us something we often forget:
safety is not found in circumstances,
but in where the heart is anchored.
Most of us will never be tested by a
Pharaoh.
But many of us are tested by comfort.
By silence.
By environments where compromise feels reasonable,
and resistance feels too heavy.
Surah 66:11 quietly returns the question to
us:
When belief becomes inconvenient,
what do we protect first?
Our ease —
or our closeness to Allah?
History remembers Asiyah by her marriage.
Allah remembers her as an example for all believers.
May we be remembered for the same.
Ya Allah,
anchor our hearts to You when comfort asks us to look away.
Allow us to choose integrity over ease,
and closeness to You over everything else.
Ameen.
Wallahu a‘lam.