Ramadan in the UAE: Family time is a Ramadan blessing

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See more at: http://gulfnews.com/videos  Dubai resident Atif Rahman doesn’t sleep at night during Ramadan; he spends the time socialising with family members who also stay up until dawn.  #RamadanUAE #Iftar #Family

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00:00I really look forward to Ramadan for many reasons. One of them is

00:07from since childhood I love the iftar food. I kind of really enjoy the iftar

00:14food. You get more time at home, you get more time with friends and family. We

00:20generally stay up until Suhoor. We switch off immediately after Suhoor until 9am.

00:25You know so that would be a typical routine. I love staying up until Suhoor.

00:29You know it gives me so much time because you know once during the

00:33daytime you you've completed your work you come home and then once I reach home

00:38it's iftar then after that you get a little bit of time to rest and relax and

00:42then you go for Taraweeh and then you come back you have your dinner and then

00:45you have all the time until Suhoor to spend with your family. Especially my

00:48younger daughter if she is fasting she's only six and a half and if she's fasting

00:53she's very very clear. She needs to have an elaborate Suhoor somewhere outside.

00:58She cannot have milk and egg and regular Suhoor at home. No she needs to be taken

01:02to some fine-dine place at maybe one o'clock in the night have a nice

01:07elaborate Suhoor. So she's properly ready. My elder one she's ten and a half

01:13and she's been fasting all these days doing her school as well. She's not that

01:18picky about Suhoor. I love Suhoor because you get to have it.

01:24I love Suhoor because you get to wake up and be with your family and just eat.

01:30Oh wait same stuff same stuff we are so same.

01:34This is I think my husband's childhood he's been eating this every single day

01:38in Ramadan so he irrespective of what we cook he needs this. This and there's

01:44another thing that we prepare every day that is also I don't know that's also

01:50black gram that's also preparation which we have to make every single day

01:55in Ramadan because he cannot do without it.

01:59So what is it? Is it because you grew up with this?

02:01Yeah it reminds me of my childhood. I feel I'm still a child if I eat these you know and to be

02:10very honest it reminds me of my grandmom you know I spent a lot of my

02:14childhood with my grandfather and my grandmother and she used to prepare

02:19mouth-watering food you know like my mom as well and my wife but I mean she was a

02:24different level and those two things remind me of my grandmother I can't live

02:27without it you know I really love it.

02:30Did you learn this recipe from his mother?

02:32Yeah you can say so yeah I did I did some research of the best way to do it and I

02:38think I'm not as good as his grandmother but yeah pretty much he's happy with it

02:43so I'm happy.

02:46I mean around the table it's a fun time you know

02:48it's like you know you you you talk about so many things you talk about like

02:53when we got married when I was born when my wife was born my kids when the kids

02:59were born how things have changed over the period of time how Ramadan has

03:04changed how the cultures have evolved you know so many things I mean it's

03:09diverse isn't it so yeah that's how it is yeah

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