in my name is joshua and uh i converted to islam in 2005 when i chose the name mahdi for uh my islamic name. i was very interested in uh different cultures and uh religions and uh

new things that you cannot find in the country like germany? i had a friend who was from pakistan who owned a shop. one day in uh the month of ramadan, the fasting, the month of fasting, uh, i was invited by him to his mosk. when i came to that mask, there was... several leaflets and books, also few qurans which i looked at and one quran that i found was translated to german. when i started reading the quran, it made me a lot calmer. i thought to myself, if you accept the hereafter and if you accept the if you accept. that there is one god and that there

has to be a god, then why don't you want to convert to islam? my first experience of fasting was not in the month of ramadan, but it was in the month of rajab, which comes before ramadan. i uh started my fast and uh, i couldn't do it, had to break the fast in. um in the afternoon at around 3:00 or 4our o'clock because it was so hot and it was so difficult for me to uh fast without drinking, i was not even hungry, but the the heat and the and the fact that didn't drink any that i hadn't uh that didn't drink anything for almost uh 12 or 11 hours was uh yeah was uh pretty difficult for me and it it made me break my fast on that day. but uh, i remember

the first day of ramadan in the same year, uh, i did the whole, the whole month of ramazan. ramadan is the ninth month of the lunar islamic calendar. the visual sighting of the crescent moon signals the beginning of ramadan, which lasts 29 to 30 days. in this month, muslims fast from dawn till dusk and are encouraged to dedicate a portion of their day to prayer, reading their holy book, the quran and reflection. iran's holy city of rom has been a hub for islamic schools and scholars for centuries. "the faisia school is

the most important islamic school in the world and one of the oldest in iran. many prominent scholars of islam studied here and are now teaching here themselves. many of them have been influential in interpreting the quran. قرآن مجید میگوید."

ivan ridley is an activist who has reverted to islam, of course there is fasting in christianity, but it's more symbolic now, um, both moses and jesus uh fasted for 40 days and 40 nights and we're told that they went without food and water, it was really quite a a marathon um christian. in the run up to their easter go through a period of fasting called lent, in which they give up something quite often, it's something like cigarettes or chocolates, so it's quite symbolic, and it's it's not the um daily test that uh

muslims put themselves through by simply not eating, not drinking, uh, avoiding uh, confrontational situations, having no physical, um sexual contact and and uh the like. leila is an american living in iran who converted to islam years ago. she says islam gave her life direction. at the time i was um actually searching for a purpose in life, a goal, a direction in life. i knew that christianity, i was christian. didn't give me the answers that i really wanted, it wasn't specific enough for me, i wanted something that gave me a reason for why we're here, a purpose, and i liked islam because it is the most complete religion, and there is a rule

or a prescription or a goal for everything you do, an explanation, and that suited what i was looking for. when muslims fast, they refrain from eating and drinking. all the daylight hours, for a first time faster, this is a challenging experience, especially when they have to go to work as usual, rain or shine. basically for me it was very strange experience, it's it's sort of exciting, but a little bit um a little bit difficult to start with, because as you're first starting to fast you've never really experienced this, not having this ability to not being allowed eat or drink anything all day long, so it was very um unique experience. the first year, i was wondering at the beginning, i had to doubt if i would be able to actually fast that because it was more like late summerfall, and i had doubt as well to fast the number of hours because i hadn't ever done it before, and after the first two or three days of adjusting to it, you realize that it's very um easy and you actually look

forward to fasting, so it was a little bit of um excitement, apprehension a little bit, can i do this, can i not do this, how how does everybody else do it in a warm climate, you just lot of ' questions for me to start with for the first time, but as the days went by and you get into this routine, you realize how easy that allah makes it for you when you fast, it's not difficult, and you learn for the right reasons. bismillah, oh my allah, for thee fast, and the food that gives me, i break the fast, and rely on thee. there are certain things a person who is fasting must know.

در حدیث داریم اذا سمت فلیسم سمعکه وبصرکه خیلی مهمه و لسان اکه و رجلکه وقتی روزه می گیری چشمت روزه باشه گوشت روزه باشه پات روزه باشه زبانت روزه باشه الله سنخ تربیت روح با سنخ تربیت تن فرق داره سنخ تربیت تن بهداشت طبیعی میخواد سنخ تربیت. که روح بهداشت روحی و تجردی می خواد یعنی انسانی متكامل است که فرشته وار باشد به فرشته تشبه داشته باشد مسلط برخور و خوابش باشه مسلط بر شهواتش باشه مسلط بر

تقاضاها و قرائض جنسی و حیوانی خودش باشه و این امکان نداره مگر با تمرین. is national event and everyone's in the ramadan spirit. naturally, this makes fasting more enjoyable and not eating or drinking more tolerable, but but in secular countries it might be more difficult to fast. europe has more than 44 million muslims and the americas has around 5 million. i started my fasting at 4 o'clock in the morning and of course my uh my family they are going to be hungry at 12 or one and they are going to want eat their lunch so uh a way it's quite difficult especially when you are not used to it uh to see. people eating in front of you and you yourself having to wait, but uh, i think in islamic in

unislamic countries, one thing that converts habit to is that they they see all these things happening, they see the most unislamic things happening in their in their countries, in their homes, in their cities that uh, once they have it, it is easier for them to do fasting uh... compared to a person who was born a muslim an islamic country or un islamic country, so uh, yeah, people got used to that, people got used to it, to see people in the streets drinking ice cold water or eating delicious foods and your fasting, it's quite a difficult time for converts to islam in the west, um, very often their families don't support them, are almost hostile to... their reversion to islam and because there is

so much excitement to the build-up for most muslims, sometimes converts can get uh forgotten about, and so they have to um cope on their own, and it it can be quite a a difficult time for muslims. muslims don't only fast during ramadan, some also fast voluntarily on the 13th, 14th and 15th of rajab, the seventh month of the lunar islamic calendar. muslims spend three days in the mosk praying. it's a form of spiritual retreat called etikaf that the holy quran and hadith recommend. اعتکاف ماه رجب، که این هم برداشت میشه از.

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بسازی مشه خودسازی خب اعتکاف یه به هر حال یه به اصطلاح تسویه روحانیه که انسان باعث میشه که انسان یه تقلیه ای داشته باشه از گناهان بتونه خودشو پاک سازی کنه برای ادامه زندگی. احساس می کنم یک معنویت خاصی تو این مجالس هست که بچه ها رو واقعاً تعقیب می کنن که بیان تو این مجالس شرکت کنن اولین بارمه که اومدن واسه تکار برای اینکه بیشتر به خدا نزدیک بشن شکر خدا تو مسجد دانشگاه تهران ثبت نامی که انجام شد ظرف دو سه روز خدمتتون عرض کنم که حدود ۳ هزار متقازی ما داشتیم که همه جوان هستند قالب برای بار اول

هست و قالبشون دانشجو و استاد هستن این نشون میده حالا این یک نمونه است دانشگاه های دیگر هم همینطور تقاضا هست مساجد سطح شهر رو هم شما نگاه کنید جوون های دیگر حالا دانش آموز حسینی و صنوف دیگر هم این استقبال رو در اعتکاف دارند. there is also a social aspect to fasting. community, spirit and unity are an important part of ramadan. millions of people stop eating at.

به درد دل بیچارگان برسن بدونند گرسنگی اون ها چگونه است این ماه رمضان که روزه می گیرن قهراً گرسنه که میشن یاد فقرا میفتن رقت قلب براشون میگه پس چقدر خوبه که ما برای اونها هم یه خدمتی بکنیم در یک بعد مسئله مسئله اجتماعیته که محبت و مودت بین طبقات ایجاد کنه و طبقات را به هم نزدیک کنه همین که آقایون هی میگن اختلاف طبقات اختلاف طبقات پس یک حکمت فلسفه براش که

to help others becomes more aware during ramazan, because then we begin to feel what sometimes our neighbors are feeling, which we may be so busy the rest of the year that we're not aware of that, or we take it with the grain of salt, as we would say, we we know it's there, we know it exists, but we still go on with our daily lives, it is a time for great uh reflection and it's a time when you think of uh brothers and sisters across the world and how they spend their ramadan and how they um spend their fasting and of course for a large section of the uma um hunger is no stranger to them, there are brothers and sisters out there who survive

maybe on just one meal a day uh especially in places like niger um which is... the fasting month has some very important nights, the most holy being the nights of muslims believe 1400 years ago on these very nights, the holy quran was revealed in full to prophet muhammad. muslims pray and read the joshan kabir, joshan sir and muujir among other prayers. they believe they are more likely to be answered on these nights. this ramadan uh during later, which is indeed very holy night, or three very holy nights, i uh would

like to ask god for curing many issues that are that have uh... happened in in the world such as the wars in countries like syria or people losing their jobs in any part of the world, but one personal thing that i would like to ask is uh for forgiveness, because i think that every person, even if he tries not to commit a sin uh is not able to not commit a sin, because we are not uh, we are not massum, we are not ' unfailable, we are uh human and human do mistakes and if people do mistakes and they regret their mistakes, they don't they do not repeat them, so i think it's a good occasion to ask god for forgiveness and to uh yeah not repeat those mistakes and uh keep the connection to god

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