The female heart in all ages and countries is the same.

She caused a slave to intimate to him what was passing in her mind, and, for the remaining twenty-four years of her life, Mohammed was her faithful husband.

In a land of polygamy, he never insulted her by the presence of a rival.

Many years subsequently, in the height of his power, Ayesha, who was one of the most beautiful women in Arabia, said to him: "Was she not old?
Did not God give you in me a better wife in her place ?" "No, by God!" exclaimed Mohammed, and with a burst of honest gratitude, "there never can be a better.

She believed in me when men despised me, she relieved me when I was poor and persecuted by the world." His marriage with Chadizah placed him in circumstances of ease, and gave him an opportunity of indulging his inclination to religious meditation.
It so happened that her cousin Waraka, who was a Jew, had turned Christian.