Assalamu alaikum, first of all.
Was ist dann in dieser Moschee passiert?
Warum sind Sie Muslim geworden am Donnerstag?
Ich muss mich entschuldigen, ich bin total aufgeregt.
Es ist kein Problem.
Ja, wir arbeiten beide sehr viel.
Wir arbeiten sehr viel mit Menschen, die krank sind, die nach Wegen...
Yes, both of us work a lot.
We work with ill people, and therefore we try to be healthy or remain healthy.
Often one can notice that the soul is also ill, not just the body.
With a healthy soul you often have a healthy body.
But from the beginning, I felt it was a duty to talk to those patients.
But I soon realized that I couldn't give them any more because my soul was empty.
I was missing something.
I tried to overpass it by playing sports, going shopping.
But when I was again alone, I had a pain in my soul.
I felt my soul was empty.
But I didn't know where to look for what was missing.
I had tried with the Christian belief, going to church, but it wasn't there.
It gave me nothing.
I have tried by praying, but that was not it.
That day we spoke together was a day I felt happy.
I felt really good.
In my head, in many ways, I used to feel sad.
I didn't know why.
Even my husband couldn't help me.
But when we had been there, he started immediately talking about Islam.
And I said to myself, that's it.
That's what I've always been looking for.
And no matter what I was asking, that was the answer.
But how could it be possible?
Finally, it was so wonderful.
I also read some parts.
of the Koran, but it wasn't easy.
Yet he explained it to me so much, I could call him any time.
I'm not scared anymore.
I'm so happy and lucky now.
And when I'll go back home, although there is so much to learn,
this is a new culture, and I need to focus on it now.
First, I want to be alone, learn how to pray.
I'm so lucky that I've found this path.
First of all, I want to be alone, learn how to pray, and I'm very happy that I've gone this
step.
Thank you.
That's well, Michael.
Back to you, Doctor.
Again, so much emotion in your eyes.
Okay.
It's really lovely.
Really.
I appreciate so much this moment.
I'd like to ask you what really attracted you to Islam then.
Because some people may say, but there's a lot in common.
Charity, fasting.
But what was it that really brought you to Islam?
First of all, I'm happy that I have to wear my eyeglasses.
I cannot always wipe away the tears.
But I have to say, my father told me not to cry, to be an Indian, and a man don't cry.
And I've felt fine with it.
So I think after about 40 years now, there's so many tears that have to come out.
Definitely.
Okay.
What attracted me to Islam?
That's what I said when we first talked together.
I'm a scientist, and I have a lot of questions before I get my opinion.
And I want to be sure about what I say, because as a doctor, I have to say the right things,
and I want to say the right things.
So I asked a lot of friends about what's happening here, why is this,
and there were always really logic answers.
And logic is a male game.
And I love to play this game.
And I love to be absolutely sure what I say.
I do it in my clinic with everything I do, with the diagnosis, with the therapy,
and with the advice of people.
Well, I know what I'm saying, and I know it's right.
And he knew everything.
It was just like me.
And usually, as a doctor, you give advice to the patients.
They ask you, or they don't ask you, but you advise them in what is better for them,
which is better for their nature, which is better for their health.
And the same happened the other way around.
And I did not find any other person in my life, and I can say this for true,
that advised me so much.
And in a week, he influenced me that much.
I wanted to talk to him every day.
I wanted to see him always every day.
We met a lot in this time.
It's like a thirst of information, really.
Yeah, it is, it is, because you open the door, and you get entrance to an absolutely new world,
which I highlighted before.
And, well, I'm just at the beginning.
I'm just like here, like a little baby.
You have to start somewhere.
Yes, I have to learn a, we have to learn a new language, and we will, and we look forward for it.
Wonderful.
Now, Catherine, how do you feel now?
I feel very much happier.
Also, I have also very pleased on this country, because I feel very complete.
I mean, I'm very happy in this country, because I have read a lot about it.
And through my friends, I've learned a lot about Islam.
I feel I can so easily practice it here, whereas in Germany, it will be quite difficult.
I was fascinated to be a woman here.
Not even in my dreams I thought I could feel this way.
Even how from outside you know your faith, and you can show it.
I feel free.
I feel complete.
Happy.
I feel beautiful.
Outside, like inside.
This is how I feel.
I feel happy.
I feel like, I feel like outside, like in.
That is really wonderful.
And before we spoke together, you said something very nicely.
That sometimes, and more than sometimes, you cry.
Why is that?
I think it is as we say, the glass was full, probably from negative things.
Maybe the soul has always been crying.
Both of us cry a lot.
Not out of sadness, but rather out of happiness.
It is like everything comes out, the water flows, and then we are dry again, and finally
we can breathe.
Simply, all these old issues need to come out, so that we can feel new again.
I think that is why we cry so much, even though today I am not crying.
Well, it is an amazing story, really.
You come, you go to Dubai for just like a few days, a couple of weeks on holiday, suddenly
you become a Muslim, you are going back home, the day after tomorrow, back to Germany, back
to your colleagues, to your family.
How do you perceive the future as new Muslims?
It will be a new experience, but I am used to advise people.
So, I was thinking about it, what will happen when we get back, especially, I can only talk
for myself.
In former times, a doctor and a priest, in the Christian way we have priests, it was
always the same.
It wasn't one person.
So, I tried to do it before, and I think it is my duty that I have to advise other people.
I can't advise as a baby.
Maybe you can't learn somebody how to walk when you can't walk yourself.
Yourself, yes.
So, the first thing is for me to learn a lot about the Islam, so I can answer the questions
like Ibrahim did to me.
I will tell my friends, I told already a few friends that I will convert, and I will talk
about it, and I want to talk about it, and I'm not afraid of it.
I mean, what's wrong with it?
There's nothing wrong.
I didn't convert to terrorism.
I converted to a faith.
I converted to a life on this earth, which will end somewhere, and then there will be
another life.
And we were both afraid to go to hell.
We didn't know before how hell is.
And the others, all my friends and family don't know it.
So, I really look forward to tell the people they can choose between a future in a very,
very bad way, or they can choose the paradise, which is great and which is fascinating.
So encouraging to hear all of this.
It was lovely having you.