1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:02,320 Assalamu alaikum, first of all. 2 00:00:02,540 --> 00:00:05,680 Was ist dann in dieser Moschee passiert? 3 00:00:05,880 --> 00:00:09,400 Warum sind Sie Muslim geworden am Donnerstag? 4 00:00:12,340 --> 00:00:14,700 Ich muss mich entschuldigen, ich bin total aufgeregt. 5 00:00:14,940 --> 00:00:15,860 Es ist kein Problem. 6 00:00:17,780 --> 00:00:19,880 Ja, wir arbeiten beide sehr viel. 7 00:00:19,980 --> 00:00:25,140 Wir arbeiten sehr viel mit Menschen, die krank sind, die nach Wegen... 8 00:00:25,140 --> 00:00:27,360 Yes, both of us work a lot. 9 00:00:27,360 --> 00:00:31,720 We work with ill people, and therefore we try to be healthy or remain healthy. 10 00:00:32,420 --> 00:00:35,900 Often one can notice that the soul is also ill, not just the body. 11 00:00:36,460 --> 00:00:38,940 With a healthy soul you often have a healthy body. 12 00:00:39,380 --> 00:00:42,760 But from the beginning, I felt it was a duty to talk to those patients. 13 00:00:42,980 --> 00:00:47,160 But I soon realized that I couldn't give them any more because my soul was empty. 14 00:00:47,520 --> 00:00:48,520 I was missing something. 15 00:00:49,280 --> 00:00:52,640 I tried to overpass it by playing sports, going shopping. 16 00:00:53,060 --> 00:00:56,000 But when I was again alone, I had a pain in my soul. 17 00:00:56,000 --> 00:00:57,820 I felt my soul was empty. 18 00:00:58,040 --> 00:01:00,600 But I didn't know where to look for what was missing. 19 00:01:01,220 --> 00:01:04,980 I had tried with the Christian belief, going to church, but it wasn't there. 20 00:01:05,320 --> 00:01:06,200 It gave me nothing. 21 00:01:06,760 --> 00:01:09,940 I have tried by praying, but that was not it. 22 00:01:10,700 --> 00:01:13,980 That day we spoke together was a day I felt happy. 23 00:01:14,420 --> 00:01:15,480 I felt really good. 24 00:01:15,480 --> 00:01:18,680 In my head, in many ways, I used to feel sad. 25 00:01:18,880 --> 00:01:19,960 I didn't know why. 26 00:01:20,580 --> 00:01:22,260 Even my husband couldn't help me. 27 00:01:23,000 --> 00:01:26,520 But when we had been there, he started immediately talking about Islam. 28 00:01:27,080 --> 00:01:29,460 And I said to myself, that's it. 29 00:01:30,500 --> 00:01:32,280 That's what I've always been looking for. 30 00:01:32,780 --> 00:01:35,800 And no matter what I was asking, that was the answer. 31 00:01:36,320 --> 00:01:37,500 But how could it be possible? 32 00:01:38,020 --> 00:01:39,840 Finally, it was so wonderful. 33 00:01:39,840 --> 00:02:09,820 I also read some parts. 34 00:02:09,840 --> 00:02:11,920 of the Koran, but it wasn't easy. 35 00:02:12,440 --> 00:02:15,980 Yet he explained it to me so much, I could call him any time. 36 00:02:16,560 --> 00:02:17,920 I'm not scared anymore. 37 00:02:18,500 --> 00:02:20,040 I'm so happy and lucky now. 38 00:02:20,360 --> 00:02:23,440 And when I'll go back home, although there is so much to learn, 39 00:02:23,820 --> 00:02:26,840 this is a new culture, and I need to focus on it now. 40 00:02:27,700 --> 00:02:30,520 First, I want to be alone, learn how to pray. 41 00:02:31,000 --> 00:02:32,920 I'm so lucky that I've found this path. 42 00:02:32,920 --> 00:02:38,140 First of all, I want to be alone, learn how to pray, and I'm very happy that I've gone this 43 00:02:38,140 --> 00:02:38,480 step. 44 00:02:38,480 --> 00:02:39,980 Thank you. 45 00:02:40,500 --> 00:02:41,200 That's well, Michael. 46 00:02:42,240 --> 00:02:43,420 Back to you, Doctor. 47 00:02:44,020 --> 00:02:46,020 Again, so much emotion in your eyes. 48 00:02:46,020 --> 00:02:46,260 Okay. 49 00:02:46,440 --> 00:02:47,280 It's really lovely. 50 00:02:47,560 --> 00:02:47,760 Really. 51 00:02:47,900 --> 00:02:49,420 I appreciate so much this moment. 52 00:02:49,760 --> 00:02:52,600 I'd like to ask you what really attracted you to Islam then. 53 00:02:53,120 --> 00:02:55,960 Because some people may say, but there's a lot in common. 54 00:02:56,420 --> 00:02:57,500 Charity, fasting. 55 00:02:57,820 --> 00:03:01,080 But what was it that really brought you to Islam? 56 00:03:01,960 --> 00:03:05,300 First of all, I'm happy that I have to wear my eyeglasses. 57 00:03:06,620 --> 00:03:09,460 I cannot always wipe away the tears. 58 00:03:10,220 --> 00:03:17,100 But I have to say, my father told me not to cry, to be an Indian, and a man don't cry. 59 00:03:17,500 --> 00:03:19,080 And I've felt fine with it. 60 00:03:19,180 --> 00:03:24,660 So I think after about 40 years now, there's so many tears that have to come out. 61 00:03:24,900 --> 00:03:25,240 Definitely. 62 00:03:26,020 --> 00:03:26,300 Okay. 63 00:03:26,300 --> 00:03:29,700 What attracted me to Islam? 64 00:03:30,320 --> 00:03:34,100 That's what I said when we first talked together. 65 00:03:34,520 --> 00:03:42,320 I'm a scientist, and I have a lot of questions before I get my opinion. 66 00:03:43,540 --> 00:03:49,980 And I want to be sure about what I say, because as a doctor, I have to say the right things, 67 00:03:50,080 --> 00:03:51,600 and I want to say the right things. 68 00:03:51,600 --> 00:03:57,940 So I asked a lot of friends about what's happening here, why is this, 69 00:03:58,600 --> 00:04:02,240 and there were always really logic answers. 70 00:04:02,600 --> 00:04:04,860 And logic is a male game. 71 00:04:05,820 --> 00:04:08,020 And I love to play this game. 72 00:04:08,580 --> 00:04:12,960 And I love to be absolutely sure what I say. 73 00:04:13,160 --> 00:04:17,560 I do it in my clinic with everything I do, with the diagnosis, with the therapy, 74 00:04:18,180 --> 00:04:20,260 and with the advice of people. 75 00:04:20,260 --> 00:04:23,840 Well, I know what I'm saying, and I know it's right. 76 00:04:25,620 --> 00:04:28,740 And he knew everything. 77 00:04:29,380 --> 00:04:30,420 It was just like me. 78 00:04:30,560 --> 00:04:35,660 And usually, as a doctor, you give advice to the patients. 79 00:04:38,000 --> 00:04:43,400 They ask you, or they don't ask you, but you advise them in what is better for them, 80 00:04:43,500 --> 00:04:46,300 which is better for their nature, which is better for their health. 81 00:04:46,300 --> 00:04:49,120 And the same happened the other way around. 82 00:04:49,440 --> 00:04:55,720 And I did not find any other person in my life, and I can say this for true, 83 00:04:56,300 --> 00:04:58,540 that advised me so much. 84 00:04:58,540 --> 00:05:04,140 And in a week, he influenced me that much. 85 00:05:04,580 --> 00:05:07,060 I wanted to talk to him every day. 86 00:05:07,120 --> 00:05:08,760 I wanted to see him always every day. 87 00:05:08,840 --> 00:05:10,060 We met a lot in this time. 88 00:05:10,220 --> 00:05:12,300 It's like a thirst of information, really. 89 00:05:12,300 --> 00:05:20,360 Yeah, it is, it is, because you open the door, and you get entrance to an absolutely new world, 90 00:05:20,640 --> 00:05:23,700 which I highlighted before. 91 00:05:25,080 --> 00:05:28,640 And, well, I'm just at the beginning. 92 00:05:28,820 --> 00:05:30,880 I'm just like here, like a little baby. 93 00:05:31,340 --> 00:05:32,340 You have to start somewhere. 94 00:05:32,340 --> 00:05:38,700 Yes, I have to learn a, we have to learn a new language, and we will, and we look forward for it. 95 00:05:38,820 --> 00:05:39,180 Wonderful. 96 00:05:39,840 --> 00:05:41,640 Now, Catherine, how do you feel now? 97 00:05:44,220 --> 00:05:45,880 I feel very much happier. 98 00:05:46,260 --> 00:05:50,940 Also, I have also very pleased on this country, because I feel very complete. 99 00:05:51,680 --> 00:05:55,600 I mean, I'm very happy in this country, because I have read a lot about it. 100 00:05:55,740 --> 00:05:58,180 And through my friends, I've learned a lot about Islam. 101 00:05:58,180 --> 00:06:03,480 I feel I can so easily practice it here, whereas in Germany, it will be quite difficult. 102 00:06:04,560 --> 00:06:06,520 I was fascinated to be a woman here. 103 00:06:06,920 --> 00:06:09,480 Not even in my dreams I thought I could feel this way. 104 00:06:10,280 --> 00:06:13,320 Even how from outside you know your faith, and you can show it. 105 00:06:13,980 --> 00:06:14,640 I feel free. 106 00:06:15,120 --> 00:06:16,140 I feel complete. 107 00:06:16,540 --> 00:06:16,980 Happy. 108 00:06:17,580 --> 00:06:18,580 I feel beautiful. 109 00:06:18,960 --> 00:06:20,080 Outside, like inside. 110 00:06:20,600 --> 00:06:21,680 This is how I feel. 111 00:06:21,680 --> 00:06:24,680 I feel happy. 112 00:06:24,680 --> 00:06:28,340 I feel like, I feel like outside, like in. 113 00:06:29,460 --> 00:06:30,760 That is really wonderful. 114 00:06:31,740 --> 00:06:36,760 And before we spoke together, you said something very nicely. 115 00:06:37,640 --> 00:06:41,260 That sometimes, and more than sometimes, you cry. 116 00:06:41,600 --> 00:06:42,300 Why is that? 117 00:06:42,300 --> 00:06:56,220 I think it is as we say, the glass was full, probably from negative things. 118 00:06:56,860 --> 00:06:58,620 Maybe the soul has always been crying. 119 00:06:59,220 --> 00:07:00,520 Both of us cry a lot. 120 00:07:01,060 --> 00:07:03,620 Not out of sadness, but rather out of happiness. 121 00:07:03,620 --> 00:07:10,100 It is like everything comes out, the water flows, and then we are dry again, and finally 122 00:07:10,100 --> 00:07:10,940 we can breathe. 123 00:07:11,940 --> 00:07:16,680 Simply, all these old issues need to come out, so that we can feel new again. 124 00:07:17,240 --> 00:07:22,060 I think that is why we cry so much, even though today I am not crying. 125 00:07:22,060 --> 00:07:34,580 Well, it is an amazing story, really. 126 00:07:34,700 --> 00:07:39,920 You come, you go to Dubai for just like a few days, a couple of weeks on holiday, suddenly 127 00:07:39,920 --> 00:07:44,880 you become a Muslim, you are going back home, the day after tomorrow, back to Germany, back 128 00:07:44,880 --> 00:07:46,200 to your colleagues, to your family. 129 00:07:46,800 --> 00:07:48,720 How do you perceive the future as new Muslims? 130 00:07:48,720 --> 00:07:58,000 It will be a new experience, but I am used to advise people. 131 00:07:59,060 --> 00:08:09,820 So, I was thinking about it, what will happen when we get back, especially, I can only talk 132 00:08:09,820 --> 00:08:10,420 for myself. 133 00:08:10,420 --> 00:08:19,380 In former times, a doctor and a priest, in the Christian way we have priests, it was 134 00:08:19,380 --> 00:08:20,160 always the same. 135 00:08:20,660 --> 00:08:21,700 It wasn't one person. 136 00:08:22,520 --> 00:08:31,680 So, I tried to do it before, and I think it is my duty that I have to advise other people. 137 00:08:31,780 --> 00:08:33,120 I can't advise as a baby. 138 00:08:33,120 --> 00:08:36,660 Maybe you can't learn somebody how to walk when you can't walk yourself. 139 00:08:36,660 --> 00:08:37,320 Yourself, yes. 140 00:08:37,600 --> 00:08:45,900 So, the first thing is for me to learn a lot about the Islam, so I can answer the questions 141 00:08:45,900 --> 00:08:48,060 like Ibrahim did to me. 142 00:08:48,060 --> 00:08:59,460 I will tell my friends, I told already a few friends that I will convert, and I will talk 143 00:08:59,460 --> 00:09:03,860 about it, and I want to talk about it, and I'm not afraid of it. 144 00:09:04,000 --> 00:09:05,180 I mean, what's wrong with it? 145 00:09:05,240 --> 00:09:05,940 There's nothing wrong. 146 00:09:06,080 --> 00:09:07,940 I didn't convert to terrorism. 147 00:09:07,940 --> 00:09:10,120 I converted to a faith. 148 00:09:10,340 --> 00:09:20,660 I converted to a life on this earth, which will end somewhere, and then there will be 149 00:09:20,660 --> 00:09:21,540 another life. 150 00:09:22,480 --> 00:09:25,520 And we were both afraid to go to hell. 151 00:09:25,660 --> 00:09:27,780 We didn't know before how hell is. 152 00:09:28,340 --> 00:09:31,200 And the others, all my friends and family don't know it. 153 00:09:31,200 --> 00:09:44,100 So, I really look forward to tell the people they can choose between a future in a very, 154 00:09:44,280 --> 00:09:51,640 very bad way, or they can choose the paradise, which is great and which is fascinating. 155 00:09:52,420 --> 00:09:54,340 So encouraging to hear all of this. 156 00:09:54,780 --> 00:09:55,900 It was lovely having you.