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Of course I enjoy Ramadan here, because I make Ramadan.

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You create your own scene,

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get together with your Muslim friends, go eat somewhere.

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Every single Muslim around the world is doing the exact same thing

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It's fun to be a part of everyone, what everyone's doing.

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Ramadan is the time, once in the year, where you come,

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where you can fill up on spirituality 
and then use that throughout the year.

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The hardest thing about fasting would probably be 
no food or drink.

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- Look at the food, I'm so hungry. 
- That's my weak point.

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Surrounded by food, pastries, sandwiches, biscuits, tea.

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Thinking about people who don't have food,

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that's what we're meant to be doing.

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Thinking about the poor.

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People are constantly consuming food - personally I always snack.

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It's quite scary, because when you go on the streets,
 everybody is just eating.

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When I fast I realise that I don't need to be eating constantly.

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You're so hungry by the end of it, 
that I think you put on more weight.

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It's like when you're bulimic, you vomit,
 and then you just eat more

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Just hearing that it's Ramadan, you just want to be good.

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It's really useful to me because it's not just fasting from food,

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it's fasting from a lot of stuff.

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I tend to swear quite a lot.

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When it's Ramadan, I make a conscious effort to not do it.

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I stop backbiting about people.

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Oh, so you backbite?

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If you don't live up to being that good,
 then I feel a sense of guilt.

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Yeah.

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You have no excuse.

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The Devil's locked up and nothing can whisper in your ear.

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This is you.

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When I come to gossip, or something innocent like that,

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I feel this is really me, and I'm such a bad gossip.

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The point is that humans sin by nature, you can't help it.

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If you fall and you do it, then you do it
 and Ramadan is a time to repent.

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It's tiring.

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It's fun and not fun at the same time.

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There's a word called Jihad, which is often misused.

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Jihad is any struggle, for God.

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Because you're hungry, you're thirsty

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and you're trying to concentrate on telling the truth,

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worshipping, not backbiting.

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It's like you've got no fuel in your body.

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We're all so excited, so excited...

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Five, four, three, two, one...

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Thank you, Allah, for the food,

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for giving us good health...