 السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته بكم all welcome to the holy land of Karbala Respective viewers from inside the holy shrine of Abul Fadha al-Abbas Peace be upon him reporting to you the 13th annual festival of Rabi' Al-Shahada where 35 countries attended 35 high level delegations from different countries attended this festival in order to take part of each part of the activities of this festival Respective viewers, stay tuned We will have interviews with some of the guests to have further details about this annual festival Stay tuned brothers and sisters I am very honoured to have been invited to this festival and after 5 days of attending it I found it very professionally organised and very well let's say organised festival I met many interesting colleagues from Iraq from here from the holy shrines but also from throughout the world not only from Europe, from Africa, from Asia so I got a lot of contacts, friendships to people here for example Saeed Ahmed was a very nice guest to me he showed me around he helped me to get to know Iraqi culture I am from Germany myself this is my first time here I knew about Iraq and Karbala was what I read from books and of course from the news and I got a lot of insight here into Iraqi society into religious life in these cities into academic discussions in the city and I am very pleased and very happy to have been invited I am from Poland, Europe it is my first time in Iraq it is my first time in this part of the world in Europe we every time, every day here from the media that Iraq is war that is not safe that it's a lot of bad things bad feelings I am here for few days 5, 6 days and I see happy people I see very deep faith something what Europe lost a long time ago I am from Poland, we believe in God but it's one of the only few countries in Europe where people believe in God so I am feeling here like in home so thank you very much مرحباً لكم from the 13th annual festival ربيع الشهادة where as you see a number of religious and public and political figures took part and delivered their speeches during the festival as well as you know clerics from the different sects of Islam delivered their speeches in the festival and Alhamdulillah they are concluding right behind me right now they are concluding the festival by delivering some gifts to the families of the martyrs of the popular mobilization units Alhamdulillah as many of the guests said the festival has been concluded successfully and that the aims of the festival to create a religious dialogue a peaceful dialogue between different sects and religions as Alhamdulillah accomplished respected viewers thank you very much indeed for watching don't forget the dua to hasten the reappearance of the master of our time his majesty إمام المهدي may Allah hasten his reappearance بسلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته