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As-Salaamu Alaikum, Beautiful Lecture It is narrated that Ibn `Abbas (may God be pleased with him) said that the Messenger of God, Muhammad, (may God bless and grant him peace) said, On the night in which I was taken by a night Journey, a pleasant fragrance came my way, and so I said, O Gabriel! What is this pleasant fragrance? He said, This is the fragrance of the hairdresser of Pharaohs daughter, and [of the hairdresser]s children. This is her story as narrated in a lecture by Bilal Assad based on a hadith found in Ahmad and Ibn Majah: There was a women called Mashit of Firoun (Pharaoh), she was the hairdresser of Firouns daughterthe same Pharaoh who said, I do not know any god but me. Mashit of Firoun had embraced Islam in secret and when she was combing the hair of the pharaohs daughter, the comb fell to the ground and Mashit automatically and subconsciously picked up the comb and said, Bismillah, (in the name of God). This Mashit of Firoun also had five children and one of them was still being breast fed. After Mashit said Bismillah, the daughter of Firoun said, Allah Abi, are you saying God my father? And Mashit said, No! God, the God of your father and yourself and me. The pharaohs daughter became angry and went to her father and said to him: Father, this woman worships another god besides you. He said: What? She knows another god besides me, who is that? Call her to me. They called her to him, and she came and stood, a woman, a woman in front of this great Pharaoh... |
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