 We send our condolences to each and every one of you as we mourn the days in the lead up to the death anniversary, the murder anniversary of our dear master, the son of our first Imam Hussain, and indeed his dear children and his family in the land, in the holy land of Karbala and we extend our condolences to our dear awaited saviour and may Allah hasten his reappearance. Throughout these days we are bringing you the opportunity to learn from the Masaib of Karbala, not just to take part in the Masaib but to actually learn from it so in these nights where you are attending the Majalis, wherever you are in the world, you are connecting just that little bit more rather than just on a very surface level type basis. And for these first five nights we've decided to dedicate them towards the women and children of Aba Abdullah who involve, usually we remember them for the Masaib that came after for them. No doubt there is no lesser of a Masaib compared to this but it's something that we wanted to look at how they were during these days and to ensure that we do not neglect them. Insha'Allah with my dear brother Ali Fahla with me tonight we are going to remember the princess and the queen, Sayyid Zaynab, alaihi salam. Yes, alaihi salam, my dear viewers as well. Yes, Sayyid Zaynab, there is a lot that can be said about the tragedy of Sayyid Zaynab, about what you can learn from Sayyid Zaynab, the lessons, the patience, the fact that we mentioned in previous episodes about Sayyid al-Qaia and how she assumed leadership. Sayyid Zaynab, she had that leadership right from the beginning, it's not something that fell into her hands, she took it upon her to be a leader in those difficult times, knowing that she was leading herself with the Mahusayn As-Salam, knowing that she had to sacrifice everything that she had, knowing that she will see all of the calamities but this is the patience that she had and the submission that you also mentioned in previous episodes, the total submission to Allah's will and the total submission to the fact that Imam Hussain As-Salam had a message to spread and she was 100% behind that message to sacrifice everything that she had and to see the sacrifice in front of her. And furthermore, to call everything beautiful right at the end is testament to a character of Sayyid Zaynab. No doubt that leadership came from her father, Ali Ibn Abi As-Salam, we talk about role models and we use her as a role model and she didn't have to look very far for her own role model, role model and that was the purity of that family. One thing that we wanted to, as Ali just mentioned, that we wanted to look at was how did or one of the ways perhaps in which Sayyid Zaynab managed to deal with the calamities that fell upon her and one of the titles that's given to her is Umm al-Musayib, a very famous title, the mother of tragedies, the mother of Musayib and this title that is given isn't just given as a result of what happened in Karbala, it's what happened previously as well. It's the amalgamation of all these different episodes she had to witness, recover from and go again and this was the murder and demise of her father, Ali Ibn Abi Al-Talim, the murder and demise of her mother, Fatimah Zahra As-Salamu Alayhi, the murder and demise of her brother, Imam Al-Hassan and note I'm always using this word murder and it's a tragic murder each and every time. It's something that we dedicate two, three nights to Inshallah Ramallah, for Fatimah, three different narrations for five nights, whatever it may be, Fatimah Al-Hassan, we have the night and the day, Fatimah Al-Hassan and then of course Ashra and she had to witness every single one of these and hence being known as Umm al-Musayib is no surprise when you understand this kind of background. So what we wanted to very briefly try and do is to understand perhaps one of the ways in which she managed to deal with this constant witnessing of death and murder yet managed to recover and recover and recover and one of the notions that we taught is this and this is that in Quran Allah SWT in Surah Mulk says Tabab Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem Tabarak al-Ladhi biyadihi al-Mulkuhu wa hu ala kulli shay'in qadir but it's the second line where he says The verses al-Mulk and then al-Hayat, it's death and then life. So Allah says who created death and life rather than life and death when we talk about life and death we say life and death we don't say death and life and there's a wisdom behind this. Allah SWT is telling us that whilst we as humans perceive we are born and hence life and then we die hence death the actual transmission from stage one to stage four is we are dead he breathes a soul into us we're living then we're dead again the dead of the dunya and then we're rebirth we're born again into akhira it's death life death life hence Allah says al-Mu't wa al-Hayat and this in itself needs to teach us a very significant lesson in that this death that we know it is should not be seen as the end of a journey should not be seen as okay oh no Sardik has passed away that's the end of his life he'll never have the opportunity to do XYZ he'll never see his mother again rather it should be seen that ah this individual has died yes but is now on his journey towards Allah SWT there's a very famous poet Shaheed Shaheed murdered in Pakistan Sibtej Afar a very famous Pakistani poet who wrote in the language of Urdu and he has a verse where he beautifully says that when I die a paraphrasing when I die don't see this as my death see this when you're dressing me in my coffin and you're washing me that you're preparing me for my visit to Allah SWT and the Ahlul Bayt and perhaps this is how say the Zaynab was taught on how to see death to see it as the start of the new life but we should still not forget again and we always reiterate they were humans and this feeling that she had to view the death of her mother her father her brother her brother another brother and another brother her sons her nephews and then her niece in the dungeon uman masayih yeah not sure even like we were mentioning a couple of nights ago as well and it's actually quite interesting because she says obituary you have and you have torn torn my heart into pieces and but what she specifically says yeah I'm not sure if I got the Arabic right but basically you've broken the tendons or the the almost the arteries and veins and the veins within within my heart and scientifically I think recently there's been a there's been a publication where where someone can actually rip hearts tendons heart muscles within the heart through grief so you know you mentioned umal baneen and how she says that you've broken my heart but what did what kind of heart did mosaib have say the Zaynab for her to be able to see from what you were saying exactly well mama alaihi salam Fatim Zalam and Hussain Abul Abbas and all the companions that she held there as well the poem written by herself as well Sadak says my heart has broken into pieces where does each piece reside will I ever get a peaceful moment before my soul flies my heart is broken into pieces where does each piece reside will I ever get a peaceful moment before my soul flies before my soul flies one segment lives in my hometown drowning in sorrow it recalls the heat from the door and the loss of an unborn it feels the collapse of the door on the purest lady it resides in that secret grave with the blessed broken rip but that peace feels peace as my mother says I'm with you oh Zaynab I'm with you oh Zaynab will I ever will I ever get a peaceful moment before my soul flies before my soul flies one segment lives in the city where a king lays with profits it recalls the strike on a prostrate's head and days of poison it feels the hunger of orphans who lost their own father too it resides in a grave with a man who wished he could protect his son but that peace feels peace as my father says but that's peace feels peace as my father says I'm with you I'm with Zaynab one segment lives in the coffin it recalls the regurgitation of a poison liver it feels the funeral procession going and then return it resides in a grave don't miss which is cannot be shit but that peace feels peace as my brother says I'm with you oh Zaynab but that's peace feels peace as my brother says I'm with you oh Zaynab one segment lives in the two beds which house my own two sons it recalls the scent and the first words of two young innocence it feels the embrace of the small hands which work out into shreds it resides in a house which no longer is full of laughter and joy but that peace feels peace when my two sons say we're with you one segment lives it recalls the flying flag until the water was no more it feels a heart shattered due to the cries of the children it resides in the hands which are no longer protecting our veils but that peace feels peace when my brother says I'm with you oh Zaynab I'm with Zaynab one segment lives next to the chest on the hot blood stains and it recalls the kiss upon the neck which I cannot describe it feels the call of hell in which a code across the land it resides in heaven and the earth with 20 million around but that peace feels peace when my brother says I'm with you I'm with you one segment lives in the dungeon where a girl cry it recalls the sleep that's never stopped upon seeing that's how it feels the first ever it feels the first of a who gave to her brother first it resides nearby in that's only it resides nearby in that lonely shrine where nobody visits but that peace feels peace when my dear he says I'm with you oh auntie I'm with you oh auntie even after my death there's still no peace whilst wars wage around I reside here snow visitors but if my brother Jose then simply as for him I was just a supporter protecting the army what the writer says peace upon Zaynab you were a vital piece you were a vital piece my heart has been broken into pieces where does each piece reside will I will I ever get a peaceful moment before my soul flies miss up before my soul flies and this notion of say the Zaynab's heart being shattered into different pieces across the world and left there to reside resonates to just how the major list of about Abdullah has scattered across the whole world we said in the first night posters coming up of Majalis in South Africa in Australia in almost every single country now it's like oh wow you know that there's another major list there and one thing we must send our appreciation to say the Zaynab for is for initiating being amongst the initiators of the major list of him I'm saying for being amongst the initiators of the poetry the lamentation the Azar and the remembrance of him for sure but I guess one point to take is to understand this this this concept of establishing a major list and what it actually resembles I think on the surface we see it as okay we hold the Emma very dear to us and we hold a major list in their remembrance but is there a bit more to it and to take it very simply if we take someone in our own family that's passed away when you gather for what people may call that father Harkhani or the the time where the relatives and the friends will gather and I'll recite father had or recite Quran usually they also speak about that person they'll say he was a great man he used to do XYZ use you know he was one person in the community that would give and sponsor you know children's programs without hesitation because he really saw the value of bringing up the next community and you revive his message you revive what he stood for as a man and the same notion is with Majlis but it goes a step further for with the majlis of Aba Abdullah we are reviving this message of Aba Abdullah we take the time money and efforts the sleepless nights the quick journeys back from home to come to the centres and to really ensure that we hold a moment in our life in our week in our day for an hour or two to revive his message and when we remember what his message was what what when we remember what his message was as a divine leader as an Imam chosen by Allah we remember that we are simply reviving the message of Allah the Dean of Allah and I feel it's very important not to separate the two it shouldn't be that a majlis is in remembrance of Aba Abdullah and on the other side we go to Madrasa to learn about religion no these are for certain overlapped they go hand in hand there is no point in remembering and crying for Imam al-Hussain if you don't take one ounce of knowledge about the religion from it because his opponents were exactly that people who followed the religion of Islam but took nothing away from it so what I'm trying to say is this when you hold a majlis in remembrance of Aba Abdullah know that you are actually reviving his message and by reviving his message you are reviving the true message and the true Dean of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala and this is where the correlation in Quran then comes in where Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala says Bismillah ar-Rahman ar-Raheem that's it and whoever holds in honor of the Sha'a of the symbols of Allah verily for surely they reflect the piety of the heart so by holding the Sha'a or the rituals the remembrance of Aba Abdullah you're not just doing it for him that's level one and by no means enough you're doing it and you're proclaiming that you are reviving the message in the Dean of Allah so for tonight or tomorrow when your next majlis that you attend is when your hand reaches your chest yes try and feel an element of pain that perhaps the companions in Imam Hussain went through but try and resemble that moment that hand hits your chest that that is another beat for you to say you know what thank you Imam for reviving and keeping this message alive for me this Dean of Allah alive for me because this Shari'a that Allah has dictated is one that will help me become an incredible human being one that's remembered within humanity for serving you Allah and let that be a conviction each time that it touches your chest this is the Majlis of Aba Abdullah this is really the essence of it and it stems from Sayyid Zaynab it stems from that lady who in that might of Shah Maghalib would run between tent to tent as you said accumulated that leadership that Imam Hussain and Abu Fadr really held before they passed and she was the support but she then became the focal point people would come to her and ask what do we do in this situation she gathered the children went to fire of the tent started she was ensuring everyone was okay taking the numbers of the children of Imam Hussain this was the efforts in the leadership of Sayyid Zaynab even while seeing the burning tents and we spoke about the tragedies that she saw before no doubt when you remember one tragedy if it links to another it causes that connection and the burning of a house her house at that point of a tent with the correlation of the burning of a house of her mother I have no idea how that didn't cause her to break down at that moment and you know stop her from carrying on yeah it is just mentioning the tents and mentioning the fire and Shah Maghalib I'm sure that every single person here feels the same after the ashura and the the electrifying atmosphere and and the recitation of the Maqtel and then it's reaching the pinnacle of the actual moments where Imam Hussain was martyred and beheaded and then you get that and then of course straight after that is the is the heat and the moment of the burning of the tents and the running from from 10 to 10 and the children and then you have the Shah Maghalib on where everything is just solemn that you have this really heavy heavy feeling in your heart knowing that this this night is the first night of absolute calamities for Sayyid Zaynab so a last piece before we bring this this episode inshallah to a close standing in the burning tents I watch as the ashes fall they turn into memories and then towards me they crawl standing in the burning tents I watch as the ashes fall they turn into memories and then towards me they crawl they show me things that hurt side things I don't want to recall a sword striking a father a rip crushed against the wall the fire draws me pictures I cry with smoke in my lungs grandfather or Muhammad by the sword of Sakif your grandson's blood has been shed just like Honein and Ahud your funeral they all flay it but there's no funeral here Hossein's chest is crushed instead I watch the fire and smoke sweep Hossein's tents off the sands the only hands to help me are Abbas's severed hands by fire my veil burns and my mother understands holding a rip that's broken beside me Fatima stands for whom do Layla's tears flow that can't be the bigger that fallen body looks like Muhammad my grandfather Layla I know you're confused when I saw his head shatter and it was struck my eyes so the head of Ali had a fire a fire a fire surrounds you for what but you look at the candle a flame extinguished early so young and so beautiful when I saw as him struck I saw his father smile when his body they would drag as him Hasan would cut the witness and come closer towards my side when we witness her brother a side that makes the Sun high is that really his body what's outside and what's inside how much it hurts these sisters to see his massacred pride the fire draws me pictures the fire draws me pictures many thanks to the poets Noori Saldar and I believe that we bring to an end this episode remembering Say the same and we leave you with one hadith inshallah from our holy 8th Imam the King of Mashhad and one of the great-grandsons of Imam Hussein where he says truly the day of Hussein alaihi salam wounded our eyelids shed our tears humiliated our revered one in the land of Kerb meaning anguish and affliction and you O land of Kerbala have left us with anguish and affliction until the last day of his life so for the likes of Hussein's weepers they should weep for crying and weeping destroys the great sins and with that we leave you for this night as we get closer to the day of ashura ensure that when you enter the Majlis you remember what it is for what it symbolizes ensure that you hold a level of a level of somber during the Majlis so those tears could be meaningful and as the mama Reba alaihi salam says so that they can help in extinguishing the great sins was salamu alaykum warahmatullah