BIBI SAKINA DAY SCRIPT
NARRATOR: My dear mothers, sisters and children in Islam. Assalaam alaikum. Today we are gathered here to remember our little Princess of Islam..Bibi Sakina(a.s.).
Every year we hear Majlises about how this little Princess of Imam Hussain(a.s.) sacrificed for the sake of Islam. We learn about how her great character and her beautiful akhlaq and the amazing amount of patience she had during the whole journey from Medina to kerbala, kerbala to Kufa and then to Shaam where she then found her peace.
We cry for her suffering and we do maatam for her... but children, do you think that is enough?
Today we all have put together a small script which revolves around the lives of two sisters Khadijah and Zahra, who learn that just our tears and maatam may not be enough to re-pay Bibi Sakina for the great sacrifice she made to save Islam.
SCENE 1
PPT OF BACKGROUND OF A HOME
(scene opens to two sisters Khadijah and Zahra playing a computer game on a laptop. Adhaan is coming and they continue playing. Their mother walks in with her namaz chader)
(MUEZZIN ADHAAN)
MOTHER: Khadijah, Zahra, beta the Maghrib Adhaan is coming. How come you are not on your Musalla? And you haven't done Wudhoo either?
KHADIJAH: Five minutes mummy! I'm winning this tennis game!
ZAHRA: Yea mummy, we are just finishing this game... and I don't have to pray, im not baligh yet!
MOTHER: No, come on girls switch off the computer now and bring your musallas here. We'll all pray together. Go on and do you Wudhoo... quickly.
(The girls get up grumbling and not very happy... MOTHER lays her musalla and both girls lay their musallas on each side of mother and pray namaaz.)
NARRATOR: Khadijah and Zahra recite their Maghrib and Isha with their mother. Lets see what happens after that.
KHADIJAH: I feel so bad, Muharram and Safar is over. I will miss going to the mosque.
ZAHRA: Me too, I will miss the classes and hearing about Kerbala.
MOTHER: What touched you most beta when you hear about Kerbala.
KHADIJAH & ZAHRA: Bibi Sakina!
KHADIJAH: Every time I hear about her sufferings, it really makes me cry.
ZAHRA: Yea and me too.
MOTHER: Yes she was truly a heroine! Did you know that she was a Du'a asked by Imam Hussain in namaz-e-Shab?
ZAHRA: Really? How?
MOTHER: 1400 years ago, Imam Hussain(a.s.) one nite got up for namaz-e-Shab. Now close your eyes and picture it.
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SCENE 2
PPT OF A NIGHT SCENE WITH STARS
(scene opens to Imam Hussain on a prayer mat with hands up and curtain opens)
MARSIA – NAMAZE SHAB ME KOI BAAP MAANGTA HAI DUA...
Namaze Shab mei koi baap maangta hai dua
Allah, Allah, Allah, Allah, Namaz-e-Shab mei koi baap maangta hai dua,(Sukuune dil ke liye kar) x2, mujhe sakina atta. Allah, Allah, Allah, Allah,
1. Diya hai sabr to mujko, karaar bhi dede, mehek batul ki haider, ka pyaar bhi dede, mei baagh baagh rahun who, mujhe kahen baba
Allah, Allah, Allah, Allah, Namaze Shab mei koi baap maangta hai dua
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2. Who mere sine pe soye, to dharkane khush ho, chale who ungli pakar kar, to aahaate khush ho, who maang paani to haathon ko mei karun kuza
SCENE 3
PPT OF PREVIOUS HOME BACKGROUND
(curtain opens to mum with two daughters again on musalla)
MOTHER: So what else did you learn about Bibi Sakina in your evening classes?
KHADIJAH: That she used to be such a good Muslim and she never missed her prayers
ZAHRA: Yeah and she loved to recite the Holy Qur'an too at such a young age. Isn't that amazing?
MOTHER: Yes it is! You see girls you talk so proudly about how she used to pray namaz and on time and love reciting the Holy Qur'an... but do you think she would be proud of you today? When it was namaz time both of you were playing with your computer game and one said you wanted to finish the game and one said that you were not baligh..
You see Bibi Sakina was a perfect example for us. So if you truly love her you should try and be like her, by praying on time and reciting the Qur'an everyday. Use her as your role model beta. From a very young age, Bibi Sakina used to love to pray Quran and she never missed her namaaz. She had so much faith in Allah and she never complained. She always used to thank Allah for everything and sacrificed everything for the sake of Islam. The biggest sacrifice was on the day of Ashura when she let her baaba go to the battlefield of Kerbala.
It is the day of Ashoor and Imam Hussein has come to say his final goodbye to everyone.Let us all go to Kerbala on that sad tagic day and moment.
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SCENE 4
PPT OF KERBALA
(curtain opens to kerbala where there is Imam Hussain, zuljana and Bibi Sakina)
NARRATOR: Abbas has gone, Ali Akber has gone, Qasim has become shaheed, even baby Ali asgher has done his jihad.
Imam Hussein mounts Zuljana but Zuljana does not move forward
IMAM HUSSAIN: Oh Zuljana, I know you are tired and thirsty and you have been going to the battlefield from morning but I am the last one. Please my lovely Zuljana
NARRATOR: Zuljana looks down and Imam Hussain looks down following his gaze. What does he see?Bibi Sakina sitting at the hooves of zuljana.
BIBI SAKINA: Zuljana, please do not take my father. Whoever you have taken since morning has not come back.Please do not take my baba
(Imam Hussein bends down near Sakina)
IMAM HUSSAIN: Sakina, you already said alwida to me, my dear
BIBI SAKINA: baba, baba.. all those who have gone have not come back. I know if you go , you will not come back
IMAM HUSSAIN: Sakina darling, if you do not want me to go I will not go but then remember Islam will be destroyed by Yazidism and the children to come will never be true muslims as you are.
BIBI SAKINA: Father,Bismilla go you are my gift to Islam but one last request. Baba please let me lie down on your chest one last time. You know I am so used to sleeping on your chest every night.
(Sakina sleeps on his chest)
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Sumo se ghore, ke aik bachi
Lipat gayi be karar hokar
Bana ke bahoon,ko aapne jula
Hussein usko sula rahe hain...
Sakina Bibi ke bain irfan,haram mei mehshar utha rahe hain
SCENE 5
PPT BACK TO HOME
KHADIJAH AND ZAHRA (come together on stage): O bibi Sakina, you sacrificed the person you loved the most – your dear father- just so that we could be good muslims. You gave away everything for Islam. My dear bibi, I will try and be a better muslim. I will pray on time, recite Quran and sacrifice the fun and pleasures of this world to get closer Allah.
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SCENE 6
PPT OF THE HOME
NARRATOR: There is some sort of commotion going on in khadijah's and zahra's home...let us go there and find out whats going on.
(scene opens to KHADIJAH and ZAHRA in their room having a fight over a new box of pencil colors)
KHADIJAH: Give it back to me. They're my school pencil colors, and you'll spoil them... mummy bought them for me...give them to me!
ZAHRA: I want to do some coloring and I don't know where mine are. And you didn't buy them, mummy did! So I'll use them whenever I want to!
(and they continue having a tug of war over pencil colors till it all falls down)
(MOTHER walks in then)
MOTHER: What is happening here? Why are you girls fighting like this?
ZAHRA: Bai is not sharing her color pencils with me...!
(and she starts to cry)
MOTHER: Why Khadijah?
KHADIJAH: They're new and she'll spoil them and lose them!
(MOTHER takes both their hands and makes them sit down together)
MOTHER: Remember that day you both told me that your heroine of Kerbala is Bibi Sakina and that you would love to be like her?
ZAHRA: (wipes her tears) Yea we did
KHADIJAH: She is definitely my role model!
MOTHER: Well let me tell you something else about her. One of the best qualities of Bibi Sakina was that she was very generous and loved to share whatever she had with others.
In Kerbala, from the 7th of Muharram, Yazid's army did not allow water to be taken to Imam's camp. Bibi Sakina shared whatever little water she had with all the other children. Soon there was no water at all.
Now close your eyes and let us go to Kerbala on Ashura day...when Sakina went up to her uncle Abbas for water...not only for herself, but for all the children and baby asghar..
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SCENE 7
PPT OF KERBALA
(scene changes quickly to Bibi Sakina, 3 more other children and uncle Abbas)
BIBI SAKINA: Uncle Abbas, look at this mashk. It is very dry. AL-ATASH, uncle.. Sakina: Uncle Abbas, the children are very thirsty. Can you please bring some water for us. We are very thirsty. Baby Ali Asghar is thirsty too
HAZRAT ABBAS: Of course, my dear Sakina Come with me and get me permission to go from your father
BIBI SAKINA: Baba, Baba, Please let uncle Abbas go and get water for us. We are very very thirsty!
IMAM HUSSAIN: Oh Abbas, you have come with a very good excuse to go to the battlefield... Go Abbas, Go and fill Sakina's mushk with water. But one request Abbas, leave your sword with me. Remember you are not going to fight. You are just going to get water for Sakina
HAZRAT ABBAS: Sakina, pray for me that I get water for you.
NARRATOR: Bibi Sakina runs to the children. She gathers the children around her and assures them that as soon as uncle Abbas would come with water, Sakina would make sure that they all had some water before taking any herself. She makes them raise their hands in Du'a.)
MARSIYA GROUP ENTERS: KARTI HU DUA RABSE . ME HAATH UTHAATI HU. AAMEEN KAHO BACHO
GROUP LEAVES
BIBI SAKINA: Look, my uncle is coming. I can see the alam
(Imam Hussein comes in with a blood drenched alam)
BIBI SAKINA: Baba, baba.... Where is my uncle
(Imam Hussein hugs her)
baba, I do not want any water.. please bring my uncle. O uncle Abbas I will never ask for water again... Please come
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MARSHIYA: BUJJ GAYI PYAS CHACHA(X2)
LOT KE GHAR ME AWO(X2)
SCENE 8
PPT OF NIGHT OF SHAME GHARIBAAN ON PLAIN DESERT
NARRATOR: Oh my bibi Sakina, all the children gathered around you with their little cups because they knew that as soon as the water would come, you would make sure that they all had some before having any yourself. You always used to think of others before yourself. On the night of Shame Ghariban, when water finally comes...
(curtain opens to Bibi Sakina lying down in her burnt kurta and bleeding ears and Bibi Zainab approaching her with a cup of water)
BIBI ZAINAB:Sakina, My dear Sakina, water has come. Drink some water.
BIBI SAKINA: Oh Phupijaan, why are you giving me the water first?
BIBI ZAINAB: because my dear Sakina, you are the youngest
NARRATOR: Bibi Sakina takes the glass of water and starts going out towards the Maqtal
BIBI ZAINAB: Where are you going Sakina? What are you looking for?
BIBI SAKINA:Phupijaan, I am not the youngest. Baby AliAsgher is the youngest. I am going to give him some water.
(Bibi Zainab hugs Bibi Sakina)
MARSIYA --- HAE QAYAMAT KA HAI SAMAA, CHANAY LAGI SHAME GHARIBA
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SCENE 9
PPT OF HOME AGAIN
(scene re-opens to MOTHER and KHADIJAH and ZAHRA)
MOTHER: Bibi Sakina has taught us such an important lesson. We must always think of others before ourselves and share whatever we have with others. We should try not to be selfish and share our things with our family and friends.
KHADIJAH:( walks up to ZAHRA)I'm so sorry Zahra for not sharing my colors with you. Please forgive me, and from now on I will share all my things with you!
ZAHRA: Thank you Bai, and I will use them with the best care. I love you Bai!
(And they hug and make up)
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SCENE 10
PPT OF LIVING ROOM IN HOUSE
NARRATOR: What a lovely character this 4 year old princess of Imam Hussain(a.s.) had!
Now KHADIJAH is getting ready to go to her friends birthday gathering. Let's see what she picking to wear?
(Opens to KHADIJAH in a short tight top and her shela on with a few bangs hanging out. Scene in living room where MOTHER making ZAHRA do her homework )
KHADIJAH: I'm ready mummy, can we leave now?
ZAHRA: You look very cool Bai!
KHADIJAH: Don't I? (and twists around admiring herself)
MOTHER: You do look lovely, but beta you are already baligh, so would you call what you're wearing HIJAB?
KHADIJAH: Why whats wrong with what I'm wearing?
MOTHER: Beta, Hijab is described as a loose covering where only your face and hands are allowed to show right?
KHADIJAH: Right! So I'm pretty covered.
MOTHER: Well for one your hair's showing! And your top is too tight and hugging! Don't you agree with me Zahra?
ZAHRA: Mum's right Bai, it's way too tight! You can give it to me Bai, I'm not yet Baligh!
MOTHER: (Brings them both close) ZAHRA, did you know that from the very young age of 2 years, Bibi Sakina took great care to make sure her head and face were properly covered in public!
ZAHRA & KHADIJAH: 2 years?!! Mashallah!
MOTHER: Let us go back to the night of Shame Ghariban. Close your eyes girls and try and imagine this very sad scene!
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SCENE 11
PPT OF SHAME GHARIBAAN
NARRATOR: This little girl who has just lost her near and dear family members and has just become an orphan comes out from the burning tents. Her hijab is snatched and she covers her face with her tiny hands. She runs out of the tents in fear and her kurta is on fire.
(CURTAIN OPENS TO BIBI SAKINA WITH BURNT KURTA ----MARSIYA GOING ON. THEN SUDDENLY A MAN APPROACHES HER)
BIBI SAKINA: Oh man, please do not come near me
MAN: But little girl, I want to put out the fire from your clothes
BIBI SAKINA: Please do not touch me. You are a Naamehram!
(Sakina runs towards her family members who put out the fire)
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KHADIJAH: Oh my bibi Sakina, how careful were you of your hijab and how careless are we. Even in times of such hardship, you were always so modest and so concerned about your hijab. And look at us, we have everything we want but still are so unmindful of this beautiful thing that Allah has blessed us with. The honor of wearing hijab.
SCENE 12
PPT OF DINING ROOM
NARRATOR: KHADIJAH and ZAHRA have learnt many lessons from Bibi Sakina which apply to their lives today.
Let's go back to their home where KHADIJAH and ZAHRA have just got back from school.
(curtain opens to KHADIJAH and ZAHRAon the dining table waiting for their food)
ZAHRA: Mummy! Where is my food, I'm so hungry!
KHADIJAH: Mummy! Hurry, I'm starving! And today my teacher has given us so much homework, it's so not fair! I wont be able to play with my friends today!
ZAHRA: Mummy, where are you?? Am so tired! Daddy was really late in picking us up today!
MOTHER: (comes in and places two plates of food in front of each one)
Innallaha ma'as sabireen beta...Allah is with those who are the patient ones... where is your patience gone? And why are you both complaining so much today??
ZAHRA: But we're tired and hungry!
KHADIJAH: And I have sooooo much homework to do!
MOTHER: (sits next to them).Girls you have EVERYTHING in life, yet you become so impatient and full of complains!
Again, let us go back to the night of Shaame Ghariban.
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SCENE 13
PPT OF SHAME GHARIBAAN
(CURTAIN RE-OPENS TO SCENE IN KERBALA)
NARRATOR: The tents are burning, the children are crying, the ladies are running. Can you imagine how they all must have come out of these burning tents. How difficult a time it must be for them. Sakina comes out of the tent crying and Shimr maloon laanat be on him forever approaches her.
Shimr looks at the earrings and snatches them. Sakina puts her hands to her ears and cries in pain. Sakina's ears are bleeding. But Sakina is patient. Sakina runs to the battlefield.
(CURTAIN OPENS)
BIBI SAKINA: baba baba where are you
(Sakina looking around)
Sound comes from Imam Husain
IMAM HUSSAIN: lying and all covered in blood stained cloth): Ilayya Ilayya ya bunayya
NARRATOR: Tired, hurt and in so much pain, Sakina runs to the body of Imam Hussain and falls to his side
BIBI SAKINA: Baba, you know what they did to me. They burnt the tents. Baba, they took away our hijabs. Look at my face baba, Shimr slapped me so hard. They do not let me cry for you baba. My ears are bleeding. The earrings that you had given to me have been snatched. They did not even ask me – they just pulled them and and my ears are torn. Baba, is this how an orphan is treated?
NARRATOR: Sakina cries herself to sleep on her fathers chest.
MARSHIYA BABAJAAN.. MUJHE ROZ TAMAACHE MAARE FILLER OF ABBAS BANDALI AS CURTAIN CLOSES-------------------------
SCENE 14
PPT OF DINING ROOM SCENE AGAIN
(Scene opens to MOTHER and KHADIJAH and ZAHRA in dining room)
MOTHER: if these hardships were not enough, Bibi Sakina was made to travel on barebacked camels with their necks and hands tied tightly in ropes. In sham, they were put into a dark dungeon with no ceiling. Every time she would cry for her father she would be slapped. She missed her baba, she missed her home but Sakina was patient.
(Both girls are weeping)
ZAHRA (COMES INFRONT AND FACES CROWD): Oh dear bibi Sakina, how calm and patient you were. You did not curse, you did not shout, you did not throw a tantrum. Look at us today. A little bit of trouble, a little hardhip and we are shouting, complaining, whining. Oh Allah grant us patience like Bibi Sakina so that we are able to say thank you to you at all times and not complain over petty things of this world..Ameen.
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SCENE 15
PPT OF HOME SCENE
NARRATOR: KHADIJAH and ZAHRA have been truly wonderful girls lately, trying to follow the footsteps of Bibi Sakina. And what an ideal role model she is! Lets go back to their home now and see what they are upto.
(Scene opens to ZAHRA and KHADIJA helping their MOTHER clean up the room)
MOTHER: So girls you haven't told me what you did at Madressa today?
ZAHRA: We learnt a new poem today. Do you want to hear me?
(Mum nods)
ZAHRA: When we think of panjatan, we hold our fingers up five, this is Fatima's family that kept Islam alive, they are Ya Muhammed,..................Ya Hussein (a.s)
MOTHER : Mashallah, that's so good.
MOTHER: and what about you beta? (looks at khadija)
KHADIJAH: The teacher asked if anyone could tell the class about Bibi Sakina, and because I learnt so much from our talks, I told the class how religious,loving, kind and patient she was.
MOTHER: And did you also tell your class that she was very careful of her hijab?
(Khadija nods and then is deep in thought)
KHADIJAH: mum I was thinking, can we have a small majlis for Bibi Sakina(a.s) at home. I can call all my friends. Please mummy, please?
ZAHRA: yes mummy please, please, I want to call my friends too. Please.
MOTHER: ummmmm, It's a very good idea and I think we can work on it.
KHADIJAH: We can have a Sabil too.
ZAHRA: Whats Sabil bai?
KHADIJAH: When we give out water or juice in the remembrance of the shuhadas of Kerbala, it is called Sabil.
ZAHRA: So we'll give out Sabil in the remembrance of Bibi Sakina (a.s)
MOTHER: haya beta, so lets sit and plan our majlis. But remember we have to invite Bibi Fatimah and Imam e Zamana before we invite our friends.
(all sit together)
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RECITATION OF APNI KISMAT AAZMA KAR DEKHNA AS FILLER
SCENE 16
PPT OF HOME WITH BLACK CLOTH
(Mum sitting on the floor with the ZAHRA and KHADIJAH and girls listening to majlis.)
NARRATOR: KHADIJAH and ZAHRA call all their friends over for the majlis. The lecturer tells them all about Bibi Sakina and her family. She also tells them how this loving daughter of Imam Hussein and Bibi Rubab passes away in the zindaan of Shaam. Lets hear what she is saying.
LECTURER: Let us all go to the dungeon of Shaam, a small cell with no roof on top. Imam Sajjad, the ladies and children are altogether put in this one small cell. They were hardly given enough food and water. Here is where Bibi Sakina preached and informed the ladies of Shaam of the whole event of kerbala and what had happened to her Baaba. Everybody loved sakina.
Then One night Bibi Sakina (A.S) was asleep and she suddenly woke up crying and started to look for her father everywhere. All the Holy ladies tried to console her so she would stop crying but she didn't get any peace and continued crying, O my dear aunt , where is my father , a few minutes ago I was with my father and he kissed me and said to me that my dear Sakina you will soon be with me. But where is my father now??
When Bibi Sakina told her dream, all the holy ladies (A.S) started to cry and now this noise of crying was heard by Yazid (L.A) at his court. He was informed that Bibi Sakina (A.S) missed her father and that is why she was crying. Yazid sent the severed head of Imam Hussain (A.S) to the prison and when Bibi Sakina (A.S) received the head of her father she started to cry even more and held it very tight.
Then suddenly Bibi Sakina (A.S) was quiet and there was a silence in the cell.
Everyone thought that Bibi Sakina (A.S) had finally gone to sleep again but when her brother, Imam Sajjad checked, she had stopped breathing. Inna lillahe wa inna ilaihe rajeeoon. Imam Sajjad (a.s) buried his beloved sister in the dungeon of Shaam. Can you girls even imagine how painful this moment was for our Imam and all the other ladies?
Close your tearful eyes and imagine the scene in the dungeon of Shaam
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SCENE 17
PPT OF DUNGEON
(Scene changes to the zindaan where Imam Sajjad is burying Bibi Sakina and all ladies are watching and crying specially Bibi Rubab and Bibi Zaynab. And there is a marshiya showing all this)
Sunaayi Kisne Yeh Zindaa(n) me lori Sakina so rahi hai) x2
Khudara zor se bole na koi, Sakina so rahi hai
Banaane Kabr jab Sajjad Uthe
to woh naad-e-ali dohra rahe the
(Bande hatoun se chahaa kabr khoden) x2
achanak paun ki zanjir chanki
Sakina so rahi hai
Kahan Banu ne utho Shahzadi
huwi kya baat kyun Madarse ruthi,
(Utho baba ka sar aaya hai bibi) x2
magar zinda(n) ki har diwar boli
sakina so rahi hai
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Tumhaare Goshwaare milgaye hain
Dar-e-zindaan saare khulgaye hain
(Rihayi milgayi jaati hun gharko) x2
magar Sajjad ki awaaz aayi
Sakina so rahi hai
Huwe jab Shaam ke saaye bhi gehre
parinde chehchahahte jaa rahe the
(Kahan Banu ne ay urte parindon) x2
Sadaayen roklo kuch der apni
Sakina so rahi hai
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