Imagine that you are in the city of Medina and that the year is 11 after Hidra. Our Prophet s.a.w. has just passed away and the event of Saqifah has just occurred. The shia of Imam Ali s.a.w. are being forced to pledge allegiance to the new ruler. I want to know if you were in that situation, what would you do? Would you give baita under taqiyyah and help the Ahl al-Bait alayhim s.a.w. in secret? Or would you speak out and risk your own life and potentially the lives of your loved ones as well? Or would you do something else? If it was salamu alaikum, if it was only myself involved with no other people, I would speak out and take actions by any means necessary. If I was in that situation, there might be the possibility that if I had family to protect, I would do taqiyyah, but I would try and sort of like work beneath the scenes to oppose their action. But only if my loved ones and family were directly threatened. If my wealth was threatened and sort of like worldly possessions, that wouldn't worry me because they don't mean anything in the hereafter. But if I had to do taqiyyah, I would definitely try to work beneath the scenes. The same as a long time ago, the assassins would secretly work beneath the scenes. Yes, of course. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala tells us in the Quran that taqiyyah is acceptable in Islam when you're in a life and death situation. Now, I want you to picture that you are standing outside the house of Fatima to Zahra alayhis salam. This of course is the house where our Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa alayhi used to go there and greet his family with such love and warmth. I want you to picture that you are now seeing the enemy come towards the house and the threat has been made, but Fatima to Zahra alayhis salam has refused their entry. I want you to imagine now that the door has been pushed and you hear the scream of Fatima to Zahra and you see them set fire to the house. How would you feel seeing such a thing and how would you react? I would feel shocked that how they could do this just after they did the holy Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa alayhi and do it to the Prophet s daughter and I would try anything, my reaction would be try anything to react against them doing it and committing a deed like this. Was it trying something at them, picking up some sort of instrument of defence? As they had attacked the house I would believe it would be my right to defend our Lady of Light to do anything to defend her, no matter who I was attacking.  What would you do to try and ease such a difficult situation? Well first of all to attend to our Lady and protect and comfort her children because being a mother I know it's right to see children in distress and to give them a hug and comfort them in the best way possible and try to tell them that and by Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is with them and any wrongdoers will be punished if not in this life in hereafter, they'll get their judgement. Yes the Ahlul Bayt alayhim salam they do remind us that no matter what oppression we face in this world even if the oppressors they seem to get away with their crimes there is a day of judgment and they will face Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala for the crimes that they have done. Finally sister I would like you to imagine again you're in Medina but this time you are with Imam Mehdi may Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala hasten his reappearance on the earth. I want you to imagine that you're walking beside him and he's taking you somewhere and you say, where are we going and he turns to you and says I'm taking you to the grave of my grandmother Fatima al-Zahra alaihi salam. Now we don't know where Lady Fatima alaihi salam is buried due to the oppression that was done onto her she was asked to be buried at night so her killers would not know where her grave is.  What would you say to her if you could say anything to her? I would say at last we know where your grave is and that's the one thing I've always wanted to know but in the meantime what was important to me was that your light shone everywhere through your progeny through the twelve imams alaihi mus'alam and when I look I'm able to look at the sky at night I see your light everywhere in the moon and the stars and the starlight and whenever I've looked at that sky when I've been somewhere I've been able to see the stars I've always thought thought of you and how it's always brought tears to my eyes to gaze upon that light and may your oppressors and those people who took action against you may they be given a terrible punishment in the hereafter. Amen, amen. Yes it's I pray inshallah that we live to see the day where we may know where our lady Fatima alaihi salam is buried and I know until that day within the heart of each shea there is a shrine for Fatima to Zahra alaihi salam. I thank you so much sister for coming on imagine and being with us today and I thank you for your lovely insights. I pray that Fatima to Zahra alaihi salam is pleased with your efforts and your actions may Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala keep us firm and steadfast on the path of the Ahl al-Vait alaihi salam and may he hasten the reappearance of our master Sahiba Zaman so he may bring goodness and justice back to this world after evil and injustice has filled it.


orry sorry so on the papers last week it said sorry just that it was a few trade unions represented in that so I was just right so why that union just because they're healthcare managers is it were because their membership UK level was 6,000 but in Scotland they've only got well at the last time at the last count was about 500 members that were well represented in Scotland so I just wonder how representative they are of healthcare managers more broadly I'm not sure probably because an organisation has got a collective voice if you like we might have struggled to get others one of the things that stuck me was some of the people that I was talking to had a remit that was UK-wide and they spoke very positively about NHS in Scotland in comparison to the rest of the UK and particularly about privatisation of the NHS in England in particular and their concerns the impact that that had on staffing there so they wanted to they did ask to draw the contrast between the two systems the group that I sat with were all staff members and they were raising quite significant concerns about the kind of culture that goes from world level up through the system and the way in which it stifles and their view stifles innovation and stops people taking risk that's positive risk and developing service and that type of thing in the way in which there was one individual who had been a manager and had experienced quite significant what would I call I suppose in the terminology now would be building an harassment in her role having raised a series of concerns but the overwhelming thing I think they wanted to about pressure felt having to deliver targets that was the main thing that they felt that the pressure to continually deliver those targets took over everything else and that some common sense things that they would like to have seen brought in in their service area or in their ward or whatever or the area in which they manage put aside because the overwhelming pressure is to deliver the target to deliver the numbers and I think that was they seen that as a negative on their experience I think that as we take forward report or whatever it's going to be quite difficult sometimes to make these voices heard especially those who maybe approaches as individual members or as MSPs to express real concern about bullying and harassment sometimes by senior advisers within the health service in Parliament here and I think I would put on maybe the table here we're going to have to really look at how we can make those voices heard because in some cases they're using us as their complete system I think that's something which is a committee I want to make sure we get right that that voice is actually heard in our final piece of work Marie What you were saying Neil, I think some of the people that I spoke to said that about the level of stress and they said that when people are under stress to make cuts what the rules revert to maybe not very effective managerial styles so whilst they all had very positive things to say about for example the patient safety programme and how excellent that was at empowering people on the co-face and delivering bottom up change, they said when people are under pressure they just revert to top down this is what you're going to do in bullying I think that was definitely what came across Any other issues people want to raise? If people took notes, I took screeds of notes or passed them on to the committee clerks, but if there's others please send them on so that we capture some of the themes that came forward Okay As agreed at the previous meeting we will now move into private session