“When the revelation came to him, the Prophet became very, very happy,” he said. “And his face shone. And he said, “Oh, Aisha, your purity has been revealed to me by the heaven.” The girl’s mother immediately urged her to thank her husband. Aisha wouldn’t. “She said, ‘No,’” said Akram, admiringly. “She said, ‘I’m not going to thank him. I’m going to thank my Lord.’ She was so bright, no doubt, that she had learnt that Islam is about the connection to her Lord, and every word, every deed should be to please Him.” A husband, even if he was the Prophet, was not the dispenser of grace. Allah was.
