 So we are entering into the season of Ramadan, pre-season of Ramadan, so I would love it if you share with us some highlights of your journey into Islam. I grew up, I grew up as a Hindu in a Hindu household, my parents are from India, I'm born and raised in Canada though, and I was exposed to life in the temple and doing yoga and these types of things going up, and then when I reached high school, I went through a phase where I had best friends who were involved in Christian missionary work, and so I began to be exposed to different ideas, different faiths, I went through a little atheistic period as well when I was a youth, so I started thinking about spiritual things quite early, and then some things in my life, you know, made me rebel a little bit and want to try something else, you know, that kind of typical late high school, late teenage phase, so by the time I got to university, when I was studying in university, I got to know Muslims and get a little closer to Muslims, and that allowed me to at least lower the guard of my stereotypes against Muslims, and that's when I decided to look into Islam, and I found it the most appealing religion both spiritually and intellectually to me, and the other thing was that the Muslim community was so warm, that the way that they were, the brotherhood and the sisterhood in Islam was something that really attracted me at the end of the day, and the rest is from Allah swt, now it's been, that was in 2001, so thank you, that's a wonderful story, so tell us about your first Ramadan, my first Ramadan was probably before I became Muslim, I mean if you really think about it, so when I was Muslim, when I, before I became Muslim, how do I explain this, so I had a friend who I was really a member, and she was a Muslim, fasting, and I decided to try it out to kind of see what it's like, so because I can't eat besides, if we're all in a friends group, we're all in a group of friends, and you know, Alhamdulillah she's practicing Muslim, and I like this girl, so she was fasting, so I decided to try to fast as well, and I found it very, you know obviously it's difficult in the beginning, but there's a lot of, you know, there's a kind of a cleansing process that takes place, and that was before Islam, then months later when I looked into Islam and researched it, Alhamdulillah I became Muslim, and that was separate from this friend, and then I experienced Ramadan, you know, as a Muslim, and of course I was able to just kind of come into it and enjoy all of the benefits and the beauties of fasting, the interesting thing though is, your first Ramadan, you're not living a Muslim life that is necessarily 100% you know, on the mark, but it's being in Islam, and in Ramadan is so much better than what you were in before, that no matter where you are, it's a spiritual Ramadan, even though when you can look back and say, I'm still doing that, I'm still doing that, I'm still doing that, maybe I didn't know the rules so well, but for us it was, it was a beautiful thing, and so that's the amazing thing about Ramadan, it's the mercy of Allah that you feel, and not judging yourself based on all of your many many faults, which we still have today. Alhamdulillah, Alhamdulillah. Do you prepare for Ramadan? Sometimes, yeah, I do try to prepare for Ramadan by trying to increase my Quran reading, which throughout the year, you know, drops, you know, in a way that I don't like it, and I would like to, you know, when Ramadan starts coming around, I start saying, oh my gosh, like, did I make a khatam of my last reading, and am I ready to start like from the beginning, so what usually happens, I start to, you know, finish up what I was reading on before, you know, like Quran reading, to start fresh in Ramadan, and then the other thing is, you know, try to do a couple of nafil fasts sometime before, and just preparing Ramadan means planning how you're going to worship Allah swt, thinking about what you're going to do, where you're going to go, what goals do I have in Ramadan, setting aside books that I want to read, goals that I want to achieve, and the rest is just looking forward to the mercy of Allah. What do you cherish most about Ramadan? What I cherish most about Ramadan is, hmm, that's a good question, because there's so many things about Ramadan, like, how do you define something so special in one word? To be honest, what I love most about Ramadan is I like the family feeling, because remember, Allah is there in Ramadan, outside Ramadan, but the idea of collectively worshipping everyone sitting down and breaking fast at the same time, and going to the Masjid at the same time, and praying at the same time, for me, the collective aspect is something that is most special about Ramadan. And of course, when you do that, it brings home the point that we're supposed to focus on allodging Ramadan, even more than we do normally. So when you're in that group, it's encouraging to, you know, to worship Allah. So that's what I love most about Ramadan. I'll come to that, and then that leads to my final question. With regards to Eid celebration, how do you celebrate? So because I've been moving around, I was living in the Middle East for many years, and I've just been back in the West for about a year and a half. My Eids are still, they're kind of like everything, every time is a different one. You know, so, you know, I just, you know, in 12 years when I was living in Jordan, it was just, you know, one style of Eid celebrations. And then I was living in the West Indies and the Caribbean and Trinidad for some time. That's a different, completely different type of Eid celebration. Now I've come back to Canada and I'm, I'm the Imam sometimes for Eid now. So it's just, it's just a completely different experience. And I'm just enjoying what it means to have Eid in North America now and like really getting to learn about it. So thank you so much for taking time with us. Thank you. Answering your questions. Thank you. Thank you very much.