 أهم الشيطان اللعين الرجيم بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم أعظم الله وأجورنا وأجوركم من مصابنا أبي عبدالله الحسين our dearest viewers thank you for joining us for our third night our third show here on the verses of love and we send to you our condolences upon the martyred anniversary of our dear third Imam Imam الحسين عليه السلام indeed his family and companions and we send and extend our condolences to our awaited saviour who we know will come and avenge the death and the blood that was spilt on the Holy Land of Karbala we hope that thus far over the past two shows you've started to take a slightly more educational approach towards the Masa'a and you've started to be able to connect with the lessons that we take from those tragedies we connect with tears but we also need to change those tears into actions into things that we can manifest into our daily lives that we're able to change ourselves and actually use that slogan of ya'ah hussain into something a little bit more than just 10 days of grief and sorrow and we've been doing this through deriving lessons but also through the means of poetry by my dear brother as the theme now is to connect with the ya'ah al baytah عليه وسلم specifically Imam الحسين and the tragedy surrounding Imam الحسين and the companions and the brothers and the women and the children through the mind and through the heart as we try to get you closer to the ya'ah al baytah through poetry as well as through a bit of wisdom when it comes to really changing yourselves self-development and really developing and taking a couple of lessons really seriously into محرم and beyond just the 10 days of the morning and the lip service as some people want to put it so tonight إن شاء الله we are remembering the first 5 nights what we're doing is remembering the women and children of Karbala because usually within the 10 nights they're not really mentioned they're mentioned after the plights of Sayyida Zainab and the women and children through Sham and Kufa but what we're doing is we're going to focus the women and children during the first 5 nights and then focus on the companions during the latter and tonight is Sayyida Ruqayya for this 3rd night for it to be devoted to the daughter of Imam Hussain Sayyida Ruqayya and as we know the Masa'a of Sayyida Ruqayya is plentiful it's the journey, it's the arrival it's the first it's the demise and murder of her brother of her cousins, of her uncle, of her father the let go whilst this list goes on it's important that we then actually connect with her and we actually understand some of the lessons she was trying to teach us it's very easy just to see her as a very young child that we feel sorry for and we grieve over but there's actually more to it we forget the family that she was part of and their role to us was to demonstrate things that we could learn so just to begin with one very simple point that we see about her is that amongst the children they're present in Karbala she was almost like a hub for the children she was the one that they would go to their captain, their role model of the children was Sayyida Ruqayya and she inherited this responsibility of leadership at such a tender age something that many of us are told and actually that is very valued and we're told to try and acquire in the workplace but there's something very valuable in this leadership that I think especially in these nights whilst many of us have the opportunity to serve in the way of Aba'ab Abdullah that we should apply it and this leadership to some is just seen as okay I'm holding a Majlis I'm going to be reciting at a Majlis I'm going to be doing the audio visual like whatever it is you have a responsibility of leadership in this and with that comes responsibility of actually being someone that's the flag bearer off the message you're actually portraying for example I like to use the analogy of football if you're the captain of a football team you inherit the qualities of that football club if it's a family club you're seen as the captain of someone that I actually represent this club on the pitch but also off it it's a family club so I'm going to spend time with family and that's going to be the way in which I portray myself is I'm going to be calm I'm going to be relaxed I'm going to be friendly with children Similarly Sayyida Ruqayya represented a message of none other than Allah سبحانه وتعالى if you are serving in her Majlis you must also take these similar elements off leadership, off responsibility on your shoulders and mannerisms that you need to follow the way that she would have done with her language that she would have done with her أخلاق that she would have done where faced with trial and tribulation and frustration she wouldn't come back swearing here getting frustrated here being she would have been chilled out there it was a case of conviction and knowing what her message was and that's why the children would rally around her so the message to apply for you is this if you are fortunate enough to have been given the opportunity to serve in the Majlis in the message and in the Majlis off his dear daughter then don't just serve on the face level once people leave be still a beacon for that message if you hear the words of backbiting being said cut it off straight away if you hear words of prayer being delayed in sure they are fasted and hastened if you hear people talking negatively about some of the organisers similar to backbiting if you hear these negative words being spoken about try and correct them but be a beacon, don't be someone that is actually on the face of it yes I'm in the service of Abba Abdullah and hence I'm a leader and as soon as the eyes are off I'm going to return to mannerisms that a leader would not accomplish for then you are doing a disservice towards the message of Sayyid al-Ruqayah so a very simple lesson that we derive from someone aged just 3, 4 or 5 and if you are watching this aged 15, 20, 25, 30 whatever you may be take this lesson from this young girl Insha'Allah wise words and Sayyid al-Ruqayah was or she passed away in Sham in Syria and over the last couple of years there has been a strong yearning to visit Sayyid al-Ruqayah because of her stand because of the way that she passed away which will allude to her tragedy in the latter parts of the show but before the political situation in Syria a lot of the people who went to visit Sayyid al-Zaynab in Sham in Damascus in Syria would also alongside that visit Sayyid al-Ruqayah so this poem Insha'Allah as we remember is visiting Sayyid al-Ruqayah and not forgetting her stand and not forgetting her leadership and her qualities associated with the Ahl al-Bayt Al-Masalam cannot bear to leave her like the sand cannot leave the tide at her grave the prophet it's crying over the one who if died she died from overflowing tears and by her father's head she lied Jesus sits Jesus visits with his at her grave he breaks down and cries Moses joins him with his heart from grief breaks open breaks out Shadiot is over visit this Sayyid visit this Sayyid her screams and cries destroy the time but now she lies silent and still and she was just a small child how can her heart how can her heart they break and kill oh she I come to her grave your desire she is there of his way an angel's heart so beautiful souls aching the heart her love is in stew she's in pain for her saying her dear child visit this child artists for her fire tell me how much must day for her father taker oh she I've dropped has no better day to visit Shadiot is at her grave you're in pain this allegiance and tears and at her stay visit her broken until it broke when she saw his pure it broke when she saw his pure fair ways visit her grave her رق his sad child visits this sad child many thanks to the poets أحسنت and visit this sad child and so many reasons to be sad to feel lonely to feel oppressed and I think one thing that we connect with her on is the tribulations and the sheer number of tribulations that we that that that she faced as we mentioned just slightly earlier her brother cousins father that all of those males in her family that meant so much to her not taken but taken and visually seen butchered to death as such a young girl and it's a part of me thinks what what was tough of her was it seeing all of that happen but still being able to call out to them or was it on the night of when individuals came to her to rip her earrings and that sense of no hope to call out to no one at that point you look one size and you see your uncle you look to the other and you see your cousins and you just lost you actually at that moment I feel she was just lost and then I think well how how in any way can someone of that age even bear that sort of calamity and when we look and try to understand why one thing really sticks out and that is the notion and it's repeated so much but again very specifically to her is patients a simple simple set that we need to have in our toolkit day to day but so difficult to acquire and and there's a beautiful hadith from and he says meaning patients makes light work of calamities just patients make light work of calamities and it just summarizes that entirely if she didn't hold this level of patients these calamities would have overcome her it was an absolute necessity and it then makes us question us as individuals slightly older what is then our threshold what is our threshold when it comes to patients I myself just driving here early was getting frustrated in traffic that's my threshold finished but if I were to then be saying in which I do let me be among the army of the one who will be among the army the tests of patients that I'll have to enjoy will be significantly harder and perhaps starting to go go along the lines of death these things I'll have to witness but do I really have this threshold of patients that will even allow me to overcome these calamities as we said patients makes like light work of calamities and hand in hand with this patients go something that I just admire her for to a level I can't describe which is throughout all these ordeals this notion of and praise towards Allah SWT was constantly repeated and again from Imam Ali he says contentment is the capital which will never diminish you can have a level of contentment when it comes to money to fame, to looks but contentment is a capital that no matter what if you're in the worst of worst of situations if you're content that contentment can't be taken away from you it's something that's in your pocket and your contentment never diminishes and thus Sayyid al-Ruqayah having seen all of this she has on one side a level of patience that allows her to enjoy but on the other side a level of contentment that just makes her understand the situation that she's within and this no doubt came from the lessons that were driven within her by her father by her grandparents by her siblings so something to take away is this the patience and the contentment that we hold and the patience and the contentment that we're going to learn from them and actually trying to implement for no doubt there were moments where she would have struggled to a degree we'll never understand and we understand that at these moments she would then look to a source of inspiration to a source of patience an individual that exhibited this notion of patience and contentment none other than the commander of the faithful it said that many of the individuals involved in Karbala would look towards Najaf guide me towards where Najaf is so I can complain but seek inspiration from this man exactly and on that specific tone towards Najaf that is exactly what Sayed Al-Ruqaya did when a man came up to Sayed Al-Ruqaya during the aftermath of the killing of Imam Husayn Al-Assalam and she says to the man please direct me towards Najaf and the man says well Najaf is far away what do you want from there she says I need to complain as Asadaq said I need to complain to my grandfather of what befell my father my aunties and all of my family members and in this poem which Nouri Sadar mentions to Najaf I turn I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I