The Pharaoh's
daughter asked her, "Do
you have a God other than my father?
" The woman said, "Yes. My Lord and the Lord of your father is Allah."
Pharaoh's daughter told her father what had happened. Pharaoh demanded this woman
blaspheme and leave Islam, and not be a Muslim anymore, but she refused. At that,
Pharaoh threatened to kill her children.
He brought a great pot of water and built a great fire under it. When the
water boiled, Pharaoh brought her children and started to drop them into that
pot one after the other.
Throughout all this, the woman remained steadfast to Islam - and refused to
leave Islam, even when Pharaoh reached her youngest child -- a little boy still
breast feeding -- but she felt pity for him.
At that, Allah
enabled this child to speak. He said to his mother, "O
Mother, be patient. The torture of the Hereafter is far more severe than the
torture of this life, and do not be reluctant, because you are right."
At this the woman requested Pharaoh collect her bones and the bones of her
children and bury them in the same grave. Pharaoh promised her that -- then
dropped her into that boiling water. She died as a martyr.
The good odour the Prophet (salAllahu alayhi wassalam) smelled coming from
her grave is an indication of her high status.