رمسة العرب 9-4-2026

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A man discovers his father died a year ago and nobody told him — and his young son tells him he saved the father's mat to take him to the mosque when he grows old.

1. Aloula Radio's Ramsa Al-Arab programme broadcasts from Al-Musineen House in Sharjah to mark the institution's 40th anniversary of eldercare services. 2. The head of the supported services department at the Sharjah Social Services eldercare facility is the first interviewee, explaining the structure of services provided. 3. The episode's core purpose is to situate elder care within Emirati values of family cohesion and to celebrate the institutional infrastructure that now supports that value. 4. The official explains two distinct systems: senior services centres that send staff to visit elderly people still living at home, and nursing homes providing 24-hour residential care for bedridden patients and hospital transfers. 5. Emergency referrals to the nursing home are handled through a dedicated social services hotline, number 8700, which routes cases to case management for assessment. 6. Al-Musineen House was established in 1986 under the Sharjah Social Services Department and provides medical, psychological, nutritional, and cultural programming to enhance quality of life and reintegrate elderly residents into society. 7. The host recalls witnessing as a child elderly people without family being informally circulated among neighbours, passed 'from one family to another, from one house to another' in what he describes as a communal system of care rooted in original Emirati values. 8. He argues that modern life's accelerated pace and the medical complexity of elder care now require dedicated institutions, while traditional values of family obligation remain the foundation. 9. A traditional Nabati poetry performance by Fazza is broadcast, including verses in Gulf Arabic dialect celebrating loyalty, heritage, and the beauty of the UAE's landscape and people. 10. The poetry segment celebrates Dubai and Abu Dhabi by name and uses agricultural imagery — Khazama flowers, Nifl, Bakhtri and Hal — common in Gulf traditional verse. 11. The programme also broadcasts a heritage reflection by an elder on Emirati ancestral wisdom, including the advice never to reprimand a person the moment they make a mistake but to support them first, and never to give advice while exhibiting the fault yourself. 12. Guest Abu Saleh, described as an artist and elder community figure, addresses young listeners about the duty of filial piety. 13. Abu Saleh cites the Hadith placing the mother three times before the father in order of obligation and frames his own success as rooted in his parents' blessings. 14. He narrates the parable of a son who neglected his father, came to the mosque and found the father gone, learned the father had died a year earlier having left nothing but a prayer mat, and then the neglectful son's own child takes the mat saying 'I will keep this to bring you to the mosque when you are old like your grandfather.' 15. Abu Saleh tells younger listeners that parents 'don't want anything from you but to see their child' — not money, not service, just presence. 16. The programme closes with institutional information: registration for the Al-Maidaan Al-Hul Bida heritage camel journey for 2026 opens on the 13th through hhc.gov.ae. 17. The overall tone is warm, ceremonial and community-oriented, typical of Gulf public radio programming on national heritage themes. 18. The interview and poetry segments are interspersed with traditional Gulf musical pieces and listener phone-in opportunities via number 056-52516666. 19. Listeners with an interest in Gulf social policy, Emirati heritage, Nabati poetry, or eldercare traditions in the Arab world will find this episode culturally rich. 20. Listeners expecting a data-driven or critical analysis of eldercare policy or those unfamiliar with Gulf Arabic dialect and traditional poetry will find parts of the episode inaccessible.

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