The Fakhiras sure know how to bond over Iftar. The Palestinian family living in Dubai make sure to spend every Iftar together.The head of the family, Omar Fakhira, said with pride that Iftar is incomplete without his wife, Hala Al Ansari, children Shadi Fakhira (oldest son), Mai (daughter) and Ramiz (youngest son) and their families.
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00:00Ramadan is the month that all of us as Muslims are waiting for it to get closer to God, for
00:22praying, for family gatherings.
00:25It's the right time, the iftar time, where there's no work, there's nothing to do, just
00:29to sit for iftar and gather as a family and we share our nice moments together.
00:36We also see our relatives, moreover, for the prayings and getting closer to God.
00:42Ramadan is the month of giving and having, just being blessed with what you have, because
00:48people just nowadays don't know what they have until they actually feel it.
00:54So Ramadan is the month that actually gives you this blessing of being around the family,
00:59especially giving to people that is less than they have, so you can actually always
01:03thank God for what you have, and of course, sharing the love.
01:08Ramadan is the month of worship, worship and love, prayer, family gathering, looking for
01:15a schedule, a busy schedule, every day on a place, every day an uncle invites us to
01:20his place.
01:29The most thing that I can remember when we were kids until now, we're still doing it,
01:34is once the Adhan says Allahu Akbar, we were just running, we just want to run to see who
01:43is going to sit first and start eating.
01:46This is a very nice memory, of course, and being with family, having our lives and sharing
01:51moments.
01:52There was one time we were yelling and saying Allahu Akbar, and I just slipped with the
01:55carpet because I wanted to be there faster, I ended up breaking my leg, so that was one
02:00of the memories in Ramadan, not to run in the house.
02:04I used to have this before I get married, when I used to single, we used to warn me
02:08and my brother and my sister, when it says Allahu Akbar, we say Allahu Akbar, so everyone
02:12goes jump to his seat, but nowadays my memory is getting much better, since I got married
02:18to my lovely wife, so I start pushing them at 5.30, come on, be ready, be ready, I like
02:24to be on time, so the most important is they're not, I mean, you need to get ready for the
02:30two princes, and then go to my wife, and then I go to the Iftar.
02:39Basically every day at noon, I call my mom, so what are you doing today for food, so what
02:45do you want?
02:46Do you want chicken?
02:47Do you want meat?
02:48Do you want rice?
02:49Do you want fish?
02:50Oh, I need pizza.
02:51So she changes everything for what do I want.
02:53My brother and my sister calls her after I do my call, what does Shadi want us to eat?
02:58So it's like, you ask for what food do you want, but you really want to have that food,
03:04but you'll have a small portion of this food.
03:08Again, your mom listens to what, every day she's standing in the kitchen, from morning
03:13till evening, and she prepares this kind of sweets for us, and this kind of dishes for
03:17us, just to make us all happy in this holy month.
03:21Every Ramadan we have the blessing, God bless my mom, she invites us every day to have it
03:26here, so I won't say my wife is like happy, she's not doing food for me, no, she does
03:31that on Suhoor.
03:34She keeps awake, to make sure that I'm awake at 4.30, to have my Suhoor, because I'll have
03:40half an hour, 45 minutes, till Shorouq comes out, you can't eat nothing, and I go pray
03:46Al-Fajr, she does me sandwiches, omelette, eggs, with three pieces of dates, and milk.
03:56She needs to be awake.
03:58One time, she was awake after my alarm, she slept till 1, oh, we have 15 minutes left,
04:04I'm sorry, I'm sorry, she's into the bedroom, to make sure that my baby angels are sleeping
04:09on time.
04:11So this is, thank you so much for this, this is how it goes with me and Bayan.