A Historical Example

A Historical Example This is a prayer which is fully imbued with the spirit of ism-e-aazam, the greatest name of God. In some traditions, it has been recorded that when Aasiya said this prayer, before her death she was shown her home by the angels in Paradise which she was to be awarded in the Hereafter. (Al-Qurtubi, vol. 18, p. 203) It is certain that this prayer of Aasiya did not come out of her lips all of a sudden but rather reflected the experiences she had undergone in her life. Prior to this prayer, she had become a prepared or realized personality. She lived even before this prayer in the remembrance of God. This was why when she came to know of the utmost cruelty of Pharaoh, these rabbani (divine) words came out quite naturally from her lips. A Historical Example Sultan Abdur Rehman An-Nasir (d. 961), once ruled Andalusia (Spain). He built a very grand palace at Cordova, which took twenty five years to complete. This palace was four miles long and three miles wide. It was named ‘Az-Zahra’. But because of its being extraordinarily large, it came to be called MadinatuzZahra (the city of Az-Zahra), instead of the palace of AzZahra. Sultan Abdur Rehman An-Nasir was greatly interested in building monuments. He established this