} Sarah Al-Suhail
Arab women in the pre-Islamic era enjoyed the strength of personality, intelligence, acumen, and the ability to influence men and move things to the point of igniting war between tribes in victory for the line of dignity and pride, especially among the Bani Tamim tribe, and its women throughout the different ages from the pre-Islamic period until the era of Islam, and still in our time they possess “genes”. Hereditary is what made them respected and appreciated by the societies in which they live, and the tribe was celebrated with many influential female figures in society who were distinguished by heroic attitudes, strength of character, courage, literature and eloquence, and in decency and good example. And excel.
Therefore, many famous Arabs were keen on intermarriage with Bani Tamim, and history recorded the names of the most famous of their women in the pre-Islamic era and Islam, among them the female companions, Asma bint Salama, Asma bint Omar, Khawla bint al-Qa’qa’, Salma bint Sakhr, the mother of the caliph Abu Bakr al-Siddiq, Zainab bint al-Harith, Ruqayyah al-Sa’diyah and Umm Haitham Al-Saadiyya, who was a reference for Sunni scholars, and Al-Hamra, the wife of Zurara bin Adass, who had a debate with the King of Manathira and he was regarding to kill her, and he said to her: “If it were not for my fear that she would give birth to someone like you, I would have forgiven you.”
In the pre-Islamic era, women had an audible voice among the Bani Tamim tribe, especially if they possessed the weapon of poetry and it shot arrows of the word, so wars would break out or wounds would heal, which was evident in the story of Suad bint Munqith al-Tamimiyyah, because of which a war broke out that lasted for forty years, as women’s poetry was used as an instigator On preserving dignity, fraternity, and victory for the honor of the tribe, and revenge and revenge for transgressing its dignity, even if it was from cousins or if it was because of a camel, which is exactly what happened in the story of Souad, who was called “Al-Bassous” and the “Al-Bassous” war, which the world’s leading screenwriters may fail. He might not create its details and express its bloodiness, but the pre-Islamic poets were more creative in describing it and expressing its tragedies.
Suad bint al-Munqidh, a great woman and poet from the pre-Islamic period of time, belongs to the Bani Tamim tribe that controlled the Arabian Peninsula during the pre-Islamic era. And she was famous for her blue eyes, and among the Arabs, perhaps this indicates the beauty and beauty of her face, because women with blue eyes are a rare minority in Arab society, and Suad was the owner of the largest battle in history and made the Arab tribes fight for forty years, and the war was named following her. “Al-Basous” was killed by Jadar bin Dabi’ah, and she was the first to be killed in the “Al-Basous” war, following Kulaib bin Rabi’a.
The war broke out when she released “Al-Bassous” while she was next to her firstborn camel called “Sarab” to graze in Kulaib’s protectorate. Al-Basus learned regarding what happened to the camel, so she went out screaming, saying: “And humiliate him, and alienate him.” It was said that she said verses that the Arabs call the verses of annihilation. Calm down, for God’s sake, I will kill your neighbor with a clip.
Souad was able to arouse in her nephew Jassas feelings of revenge and vengeance with her famous verses…
“For your life, if I were in the house of a savior
When Sa’d died while he was attending my verses
But I have become in a strange house
when the wolf counts it counts on my sheep
O Saad, do not deceive yourself and travel.
for you are in a people regarding the dead neighbor
And without you, my children, for I am regarding them
For a female traveler, they do not make me lose my intentions.”
The Bakr tribe saw in her saying the humiliation and humiliation, as they were unable to protect the she-camel of those in their neighborhood, so Amr bin Murra, and he was called (Jassas), swore to avenge her, and she was his aunt, so he met Kulaib, so he killed him, so that the epics of revenge began for forty years between the tribes, in which blood money was not paid for the dead, and therefore the Arabs called this Petra war.