Bahrain: An Encounter with an Iraqi Girl in Syria
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Bahraini
blogger One in a Million (Ar) was in Syria recently, where she met an Iraqi girl, which gave her a lot of food
for thought on the conditions of Iraqi refugees and the heartbreak the war on Iraq has brought them.One in a Million was visiting the shrine of Sayeda Zeinab, grand daughter of Prophet Mohammed and daughter of Imam Ali, in Damascus - a sacred shrine for Shia Muslims.
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“Between the Maghreb and Isha prayers, I decided to take a closer look at the sacred shrine and fill my eyes with
the scene around me. I saw an elderly man reading the horrific ziyara, with his eyes welling with tears, as he prayed for
forgiveness from Allah. There were also women from the Indian Sub-Continent, who surrounded a reader who related to them what happened to Zainab in Karbala. I took a deep breath to fill my lungs with the breeze which only flows in such environments of chastity and cleanliness. I turned around
in order to register in my memory that I have performed my prayers on a calm night in one of the most chaste spots on Earth. While I was in this trance, I was surprised by a little girl, not older
than eight years old. She looked at me and asked: ‘Are you from Bahrain?’” she writes.
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“Her question was normal, in fact a very recurring question for
us in the Levant. I answered her and we has a short conversation in which I discovered that she was from Iraq and was forced to live in Syria
with her family, who have escaped the bloodbath in Iraq. How I love the poetic sound of the Iraqi accent. I decided afterwards to perform the Isha prayer while the girl continued to sit near me and
gaze for a reason I didn’t know. Her looks were different - fused with innocence, sadness and other meanings I couldn’t delve deep into. I asked the girl for her name and she replied:
‘Zainab.’ Zain Ab.. Zainab at the Shire of Lady Zainab. The girl wouldn’t leave me so I invited her to pray with me. My prayer was Qasr (When travelling over long distances, one may
shorten some prayers, a practice known as qasr) and I was surprised that she prayed Qasr too,” she explains.
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“After our prayers, I noticed a tear in her eyes and she came close to me and
whispered: ‘Do you have extra clothes?’ She said it in such a low tone that I found it difficult to hear her. She did not want to show everyone around us that she needed clothes. She did
not want people to hear her. She said it with shyness, with her head bent down, looking at the marble flooring of the shrine. I curiously asked: ‘Why?’ She raised her head to the sky and
in her eyes were a thousand stars and tears. In a broken voice, she said: ‘ My father went to Iraq six months ago and has not returned yet.’ A tear was about to escape from her eyes but
she hid it.”
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“I realised then that she wasn’t
like other children. She wasn’t begging for money or clothing in the open like others. She wasn’t following the visitors to the shrine and extending her hands to them. It took her a very
long time to ask. How bitter is poverty! And how difficult it is to be in need! And how miserable is this world which doesn’t do justice to Zainab! I held her little head and thought to myself
if her father will ever return? When will he return? How will be return? There were thousands of Zainabs between us but we didn’t know that. Zainab is lost in this congestion and with her I have
lost all faith in this world.”
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