It is a special Ramadan for this Pakistani household. It is the first Ramadan for six month-old baby Aizen Orhan Khan. Parents Adeel Ahmed Khan and Maryam Adeel Khan are very excited to welcome the holy month with their fourth born.
Mum Maryam has been going all out bonding with the family, praying and cooking special Iftari dishes.
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Mum Maryam has been going all out bonding with the family, praying and cooking special Iftari dishes.
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00:00Ramadhan is a very special month for which we wait throughout the year, like it's a month
00:18when we sit together, like sit together, pray together, eat together, meaning it's timed.
00:25You know, when it's timed, everybody comes together at the same time.
00:29It's a family bonding for us in Ramadhan.
00:32We enjoy, I mean, we get up early in the morning, like 4, 4.30 a.m. and we start our fasting
00:41suhoor, with the suhoor and break our fast at the evening time and sit together and eat,
00:49pray.
00:50It's a lovely time for us, I mean, to enjoy together.
00:53Ramadhan is a really holy month and it means a lot to me.
00:56I like fasting and everybody else in Ramadhan that participates in fasting knows how difficult
01:02it is and you need to cope up and, you know, manage it.
01:06As we were young, right, it was a bit more difficult for us because we don't eat, we
01:10eat a lot when we were young, you know, to grow.
01:12Now as, you know, as I've grown up and I'm, like, you know, I'm bigger, it's not that
01:16hard for us to manage and it's nice.
01:19Aftar is all about making things that everybody likes, trying to cope up with the whole family.
01:29We are a total of six members.
01:31I have a small newborn baby, he's six months old and I have three kids, 16, 12 and 13,
01:36so I have to take care of everybody's needs, what, who wants to eat.
01:40That's how we always end to have a big spread always because everybody likes different things.
01:45So it's about getting the things they want to eat and making the things they want to
01:50eat and that's about it and then enjoying it together.
01:53Ramadhan means a lot, like, I get to sit with my family and break our fast together and
01:57it's really nice.
01:59I get to sit with my brother and sister and my parents, it's really nice.
02:03I get to break my fast with them and enjoy food together.
02:07We should pray, you know, usually every day, even outside of Ramadhan, we should pray five
02:17times a day.
02:18But Ramadhan really focuses on us praying more often than we usually pray.
02:23And yes, it pushes us to our limits.
02:26So Ramadhan, it helps us, you know, control ourselves more and it makes us focus on one
02:31thing which is obviously praying and worshipping to our God.
02:34And this really helps us as it's, you know, it's really beneficial for us and we really,
02:39really like to, you know, pray and worship.
02:41You get more time to sit with your kids, ask them questions, like different questions,
02:45how are you doing?
02:46What's, how's life?
02:47What do you feel?
02:48You know, general questions which you don't get time, you're occupied with lunch and then
02:52dinner and breakfast.
02:54This you have a lot of time.
02:55So you sit together, you talk with each other, then you pray, you try to get to know them
03:00better when we are talking to each other because talking is very important, which has become
03:04very less nowadays.
03:05And then you're so tired, they don't, we tell them not to watch so much TV because Ramadhan
03:09does not mean that you're sleeping the whole day or watching the TV the whole day.
03:13It means you should pray, you should do namaz.
03:16You should feel the hunger and thirst, you should feel what anybody feels when they're
03:20not eating.
03:21It brings you more close to other people also.
03:24So that you can feel if anybody doesn't have food, how he feels.
03:27When you have food in front of you in the house and you can not eat it, you know, so
03:32then you feel that anybody who doesn't even have it, how he feels or how she feels, meaning
03:36the food is not available.
03:37So you become, you become more scared, you become more thankful to God and you sit, thank
03:42for all the things you have in your life and you pray for other people also that they also
03:46should get what we have.