the faizier school is the most important islamic school in the world and one of the oldest. ism as well, 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, christians 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... chocolate, so it's quite symbolic, and it's it's not the um daily test that muslims put themselves through by simply not eating, not drinking, avoiding uh confrontational situations, having no physical, sexual contact and and 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