WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:02.320 Assalamu alaikum, first of all. 00:02.540 --> 00:05.680 Was ist dann in dieser Moschee passiert? 00:05.880 --> 00:09.400 Warum sind Sie Muslim geworden am Donnerstag? 00:12.340 --> 00:14.700 Ich muss mich entschuldigen, ich bin total aufgeregt. 00:14.940 --> 00:15.860 Es ist kein Problem. 00:17.780 --> 00:19.880 Ja, wir arbeiten beide sehr viel. 00:19.980 --> 00:25.140 Wir arbeiten sehr viel mit Menschen, die krank sind, die nach Wegen... 00:25.140 --> 00:27.360 Yes, both of us work a lot. 00:27.360 --> 00:31.720 We work with ill people, and therefore we try to be healthy or remain healthy. 00:32.420 --> 00:35.900 Often one can notice that the soul is also ill, not just the body. 00:36.460 --> 00:38.940 With a healthy soul you often have a healthy body. 00:39.380 --> 00:42.760 But from the beginning, I felt it was a duty to talk to those patients. 00:42.980 --> 00:47.160 But I soon realized that I couldn't give them any more because my soul was empty. 00:47.520 --> 00:48.520 I was missing something. 00:49.280 --> 00:52.640 I tried to overpass it by playing sports, going shopping. 00:53.060 --> 00:56.000 But when I was again alone, I had a pain in my soul. 00:56.000 --> 00:57.820 I felt my soul was empty. 00:58.040 --> 01:00.600 But I didn't know where to look for what was missing. 01:01.220 --> 01:04.980 I had tried with the Christian belief, going to church, but it wasn't there. 01:05.320 --> 01:06.200 It gave me nothing. 01:06.760 --> 01:09.940 I have tried by praying, but that was not it. 01:10.700 --> 01:13.980 That day we spoke together was a day I felt happy. 01:14.420 --> 01:15.480 I felt really good. 01:15.480 --> 01:18.680 In my head, in many ways, I used to feel sad. 01:18.880 --> 01:19.960 I didn't know why. 01:20.580 --> 01:22.260 Even my husband couldn't help me. 01:23.000 --> 01:26.520 But when we had been there, he started immediately talking about Islam. 01:27.080 --> 01:29.460 And I said to myself, that's it. 01:30.500 --> 01:32.280 That's what I've always been looking for. 01:32.780 --> 01:35.800 And no matter what I was asking, that was the answer. 01:36.320 --> 01:37.500 But how could it be possible? 01:38.020 --> 01:39.840 Finally, it was so wonderful. 01:39.840 --> 02:09.820 I also read some parts. 02:09.840 --> 02:11.920 of the Koran, but it wasn't easy. 02:12.440 --> 02:15.980 Yet he explained it to me so much, I could call him any time. 02:16.560 --> 02:17.920 I'm not scared anymore. 02:18.500 --> 02:20.040 I'm so happy and lucky now. 02:20.360 --> 02:23.440 And when I'll go back home, although there is so much to learn, 02:23.820 --> 02:26.840 this is a new culture, and I need to focus on it now. 02:27.700 --> 02:30.520 First, I want to be alone, learn how to pray. 02:31.000 --> 02:32.920 I'm so lucky that I've found this path. 02:32.920 --> 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 02:38.140 --> 02:38.480 step. 02:38.480 --> 02:39.980 Thank you. 02:40.500 --> 02:41.200 That's well, Michael. 02:42.240 --> 02:43.420 Back to you, Doctor. 02:44.020 --> 02:46.020 Again, so much emotion in your eyes. 02:46.020 --> 02:46.260 Okay. 02:46.440 --> 02:47.280 It's really lovely. 02:47.560 --> 02:47.760 Really. 02:47.900 --> 02:49.420 I appreciate so much this moment. 02:49.760 --> 02:52.600 I'd like to ask you what really attracted you to Islam then. 02:53.120 --> 02:55.960 Because some people may say, but there's a lot in common. 02:56.420 --> 02:57.500 Charity, fasting. 02:57.820 --> 03:01.080 But what was it that really brought you to Islam? 03:01.960 --> 03:05.300 First of all, I'm happy that I have to wear my eyeglasses. 03:06.620 --> 03:09.460 I cannot always wipe away the tears. 03:10.220 --> 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. 03:17.500 --> 03:19.080 And I've felt fine with it. 03:19.180 --> 03:24.660 So I think after about 40 years now, there's so many tears that have to come out. 03:24.900 --> 03:25.240 Definitely. 03:26.020 --> 03:26.300 Okay. 03:26.300 --> 03:29.700 What attracted me to Islam? 03:30.320 --> 03:34.100 That's what I said when we first talked together. 03:34.520 --> 03:42.320 I'm a scientist, and I have a lot of questions before I get my opinion. 03:43.540 --> 03:49.980 And I want to be sure about what I say, because as a doctor, I have to say the right things, 03:50.080 --> 03:51.600 and I want to say the right things. 03:51.600 --> 03:57.940 So I asked a lot of friends about what's happening here, why is this, 03:58.600 --> 04:02.240 and there were always really logic answers. 04:02.600 --> 04:04.860 And logic is a male game. 04:05.820 --> 04:08.020 And I love to play this game. 04:08.580 --> 04:12.960 And I love to be absolutely sure what I say. 04:13.160 --> 04:17.560 I do it in my clinic with everything I do, with the diagnosis, with the therapy, 04:18.180 --> 04:20.260 and with the advice of people. 04:20.260 --> 04:23.840 Well, I know what I'm saying, and I know it's right. 04:25.620 --> 04:28.740 And he knew everything. 04:29.380 --> 04:30.420 It was just like me. 04:30.560 --> 04:35.660 And usually, as a doctor, you give advice to the patients. 04:38.000 --> 04:43.400 They ask you, or they don't ask you, but you advise them in what is better for them, 04:43.500 --> 04:46.300 which is better for their nature, which is better for their health. 04:46.300 --> 04:49.120 And the same happened the other way around. 04:49.440 --> 04:55.720 And I did not find any other person in my life, and I can say this for true, 04:56.300 --> 04:58.540 that advised me so much. 04:58.540 --> 05:04.140 And in a week, he influenced me that much. 05:04.580 --> 05:07.060 I wanted to talk to him every day. 05:07.120 --> 05:08.760 I wanted to see him always every day. 05:08.840 --> 05:10.060 We met a lot in this time. 05:10.220 --> 05:12.300 It's like a thirst of information, really. 05:12.300 --> 05:20.360 Yeah, it is, it is, because you open the door, and you get entrance to an absolutely new world, 05:20.640 --> 05:23.700 which I highlighted before. 05:25.080 --> 05:28.640 And, well, I'm just at the beginning. 05:28.820 --> 05:30.880 I'm just like here, like a little baby. 05:31.340 --> 05:32.340 You have to start somewhere. 05:32.340 --> 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. 05:38.820 --> 05:39.180 Wonderful. 05:39.840 --> 05:41.640 Now, Catherine, how do you feel now? 05:44.220 --> 05:45.880 I feel very much happier. 05:46.260 --> 05:50.940 Also, I have also very pleased on this country, because I feel very complete. 05:51.680 --> 05:55.600 I mean, I'm very happy in this country, because I have read a lot about it. 05:55.740 --> 05:58.180 And through my friends, I've learned a lot about Islam. 05:58.180 --> 06:03.480 I feel I can so easily practice it here, whereas in Germany, it will be quite difficult. 06:04.560 --> 06:06.520 I was fascinated to be a woman here. 06:06.920 --> 06:09.480 Not even in my dreams I thought I could feel this way. 06:10.280 --> 06:13.320 Even how from outside you know your faith, and you can show it. 06:13.980 --> 06:14.640 I feel free. 06:15.120 --> 06:16.140 I feel complete. 06:16.540 --> 06:16.980 Happy. 06:17.580 --> 06:18.580 I feel beautiful. 06:18.960 --> 06:20.080 Outside, like inside. 06:20.600 --> 06:21.680 This is how I feel. 06:21.680 --> 06:24.680 I feel happy. 06:24.680 --> 06:28.340 I feel like, I feel like outside, like in. 06:29.460 --> 06:30.760 That is really wonderful. 06:31.740 --> 06:36.760 And before we spoke together, you said something very nicely. 06:37.640 --> 06:41.260 That sometimes, and more than sometimes, you cry. 06:41.600 --> 06:42.300 Why is that? 06:42.300 --> 06:56.220 I think it is as we say, the glass was full, probably from negative things. 06:56.860 --> 06:58.620 Maybe the soul has always been crying. 06:59.220 --> 07:00.520 Both of us cry a lot. 07:01.060 --> 07:03.620 Not out of sadness, but rather out of happiness. 07:03.620 --> 07:10.100 It is like everything comes out, the water flows, and then we are dry again, and finally 07:10.100 --> 07:10.940 we can breathe. 07:11.940 --> 07:16.680 Simply, all these old issues need to come out, so that we can feel new again. 07:17.240 --> 07:22.060 I think that is why we cry so much, even though today I am not crying. 07:22.060 --> 07:34.580 Well, it is an amazing story, really. 07:34.700 --> 07:39.920 You come, you go to Dubai for just like a few days, a couple of weeks on holiday, suddenly 07:39.920 --> 07:44.880 you become a Muslim, you are going back home, the day after tomorrow, back to Germany, back 07:44.880 --> 07:46.200 to your colleagues, to your family. 07:46.800 --> 07:48.720 How do you perceive the future as new Muslims? 07:48.720 --> 07:58.000 It will be a new experience, but I am used to advise people. 07:59.060 --> 08:09.820 So, I was thinking about it, what will happen when we get back, especially, I can only talk 08:09.820 --> 08:10.420 for myself. 08:10.420 --> 08:19.380 In former times, a doctor and a priest, in the Christian way we have priests, it was 08:19.380 --> 08:20.160 always the same. 08:20.660 --> 08:21.700 It wasn't one person. 08:22.520 --> 08:31.680 So, I tried to do it before, and I think it is my duty that I have to advise other people. 08:31.780 --> 08:33.120 I can't advise as a baby. 08:33.120 --> 08:36.660 Maybe you can't learn somebody how to walk when you can't walk yourself. 08:36.660 --> 08:37.320 Yourself, yes. 08:37.600 --> 08:45.900 So, the first thing is for me to learn a lot about the Islam, so I can answer the questions 08:45.900 --> 08:48.060 like Ibrahim did to me. 08:48.060 --> 08:59.460 I will tell my friends, I told already a few friends that I will convert, and I will talk 08:59.460 --> 09:03.860 about it, and I want to talk about it, and I'm not afraid of it. 09:04.000 --> 09:05.180 I mean, what's wrong with it? 09:05.240 --> 09:05.940 There's nothing wrong. 09:06.080 --> 09:07.940 I didn't convert to terrorism. 09:07.940 --> 09:10.120 I converted to a faith. 09:10.340 --> 09:20.660 I converted to a life on this earth, which will end somewhere, and then there will be 09:20.660 --> 09:21.540 another life. 09:22.480 --> 09:25.520 And we were both afraid to go to hell. 09:25.660 --> 09:27.780 We didn't know before how hell is. 09:28.340 --> 09:31.200 And the others, all my friends and family don't know it. 09:31.200 --> 09:44.100 So, I really look forward to tell the people they can choose between a future in a very, 09:44.280 --> 09:51.640 very bad way, or they can choose the paradise, which is great and which is fascinating. 09:52.420 --> 09:54.340 So encouraging to hear all of this. 09:54.780 --> 09:55.900 It was lovely having you.