Āsiyah عليها السلام · trapped in a household you cannot leave
Build for me a house with You
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Sūrat At-Tahrim
66:11 - Extent
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وَضَرَبَ ٱللَّهُ مَثَلًۭا لِّلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُوا۟ ٱمْرَأَتَ فِرْعَوْنَ إِذْ قَالَتْ رَبِّ ٱبْنِ لِى عِندَكَ بَيْتًۭا فِى ٱلْجَنَّةِ وَنَجِّنِى مِن فِرْعَوْنَ وَعَمَلِهِۦ وَنَجِّنِى مِنَ ٱلْقَوْمِ ٱلظَّٰلِمِينَ
Rabbi ibni lī ʿindaka baytan fī al-jannati wa-najjinī min firʿawna wa-ʿamalihi wa-najjinī mina al-qawmi aẓ-ẓālimīna
When and why it was said
From Sūrat At-Tahrim, 66:11. The occasion of this supplication has not yet been written with a tafsīr citation.
Qurʾān 66:11
Commentary — Tafsīr al-Jalālayn
And God has struck a similitude for those who believe the wife of Pharaoh — she believed in Moses her name was Āsiya; Pharaoh chastised her by tying her hands and feet to pegs and placing a huge millstone on her chest and having her laid out in the sun; but when those in charge of her would leave her the angels would come to shade her — when she said during her torture ‘My Lord build for me a home near You in Paradise — so He disclosed for her a veil of the Unseen and she saw it which in turn alleviated for her the torture — and deliver me from Pharaoh and his work his torture and deliver me from the evildoing folk’ the followers of his Pharaoh’s religion whereat God took unto Himself her spirit in death. Ibn Kaysān said ‘She was raised to Paradise alive where she eats and drinks’.
Tafsīr al-Jalālayn, al-Maḥallī and al-Suyūṭī. Translated by Feras Hamza. altafsir.com