Ramadan

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سفره افطار

[ غذا خوري سنتي ايراني ]

نه ساله بودم كه با روزه داري در ماه رمضان برای پاكسازي روح و روان انسان آشنا شدم. صبح قبل از طلوع آفتاب برخاستن و تناول مقداري غذا سپس روزه داري يعني نخوردن ونياشاميدن تا غروب آفتاب و جمع شدن با خانواده كنار سفره افطار و اين باور كه با اين عمل انسان انرژي مضاعفي پيدا ميكند.

اكنون باگذشت سالها مي دانم نمي توانم باز اين تجربه را داشته باشم ولي خاطرات آنروزها همچنان برايم پر معناست. اميداست که نسل جوان ايراني بيشتر به سنّتهاي اصيل خود پايبند باشند تا الگو برداري از غرب.

Ramadan

[ Sofreh Eftar ] (in traditional dining room)

I was only 9 years old when I began to fast during the month of Ramadan. It gave me the chance to become familiar with spirituality. Getting up to pray and eat before sunrise, avoiding drinking and eating for the entire day, and sitting around the sofreh (tablecloth spread on the floor) with the rest of my family at the end of the day, guided me to believe in a higher power.

Here, in America, I know that I could never again experience the beauty and delicacy of that setting, but memories still remind me of the generosity, richness of that sofreh. I wish the younger Iranian generations could experience their own traditional style rather than pursue westernization.