In Neauphle le-Château, Mrs. Dabbagh played a prominent role and beside other numerous tasks she would also help in the kitchen with the cooking and dish-washing. We would at times go to her to converse and have discussions with her. On one of the days that she was slightly indisposed and was washing the dishes in that state, I went to see her. I felt she was anxious and asked her why she was disconsolate. She replied: “I could not believe it that when I was washing the dishes, the Imam entered and told me that, ‘Sister (the Imam would address her ‘sister’) I have come to help you; allow me to wash the dishes.” Mrs. Dabbagh was profoundly overcome with emotions by this attitude of the Imam that for example, a person of his greatness and preoccupation should come into the kitchen and speak to her in that fashion.
I have come to help you (with the dishwashing): Mrs. Dabbagh