She was the mother of queen Soraya Tarzi and the mother-in-law of king Amanullah Khan (r.

She was the daughter of Saleh Mossadiah El-Fattal, a muezzin of the Umayyad mosque.

She was also more open to a Western approach, having been raised in the Ottoman Empire after the Tanzimat reforms.

When he succeeded to the throne in 1919, Asma's son-in-law, King Amanullah, started a radical modernization reform program.

The reforms were supported by Mahmud Tarzi and Asma Rasmya, and Asma Rasmya and the women of her family, notably her nieces Bilqis Afiza and Ruh Afiza, were to participate actively in these reforms.