All praise belongs to Allah, Lord of all the worlds. May blessings and peace be upon the noblest of all those who came before and those who came after: Muhammad, who was sent to all creation and was especially distinguished by his patience in enduring the harm inflicted by the polytheists and hypocrites. He patiently endured from his own people many times more than what the other prophets and messengers had endured.

May blessings also be upon his good, pure, and oppressed Ahl al-Bayt, and may the everlasting curse be upon all their enemies, from the earliest generations to the last.

An objective analysis and comprehensive study of the lives of the generation that lived alongside the Prophet—peace and blessings be upon him and his family—a generation that played the greatest role in shaping the political and cultural future of the Muslims, reveals to us the true reality that the governments of that period attempted to alter and falsify.

However, the light cannot be suffocated or extinguished. Glimmers of it therefore remained preserved within the pages of books, where they can be recognized by everyone who has freed themselves from blind imitation.

We have gathered those glimmers that reveal to us the true life and conduct of the Mother of the Believers, Aisha.

We present Aisha, the Mother of the Believers, to free-minded readers as she appears in the books of hadith and history, without relying upon the statements of those who hold her sacred. The sanctification of individuals often shackles the intellect and prevents it from functioning freely.

Mrs. Lamia Hamada

Damascus, Syria