Dubai's Gurudwara invites Muslims for Ramadan iftar

The city's Sikh community hosts over 150 people for a meal to end their fast

Transcript

00:00We just want to talk here about the Iftar party that's going to be held today and it

00:12is basically to prove that it's all, all humanity is one, we are all different religions but

00:18they're all different roads to leading to the same place and this is the point we're

00:23trying to prove here by showing we're giving gifts to everybody who's coming, small tokens

00:28which represent the same thought because just like the ayat in Islam which says

00:35we have the same thing which starts, even our Guru Granth Sahib starts with a similar stanza

00:42which means God is one, he is truth and he is all-bearing, I mean there's no,

00:48he doesn't belong to the cycle of birth and rebirth and that those kind of similar thoughts

00:53are there so which is what we're going to be giving everyone along with the mug which represents,

00:58which has the photographs of the Gurdwara, just a sign of goodwill and trying to show brotherhood

01:04and interfaith and we really appreciate the people who take out their time and will come

01:09and do their, break their fast here and do their namaz here, it is so very kind of them

01:14and we really appreciate that and this is the best way to show brotherhood.

01:19We are in the sixth year of our Gurdwara in Dubai and every year we do an iftar for our Muslim

01:25brothers and sisters and we welcome them all very heartily because this is part of the Sikh ethos

01:31is to serve people and we every day serve over 1500 people and on Fridays being a holiday we

01:38serve over 15,000 people. Our Gurdwara's only purpose is to serve and we are happy to serve

01:44and this is part of our Sikh ethos. We are looking for approximately more than 100 people

01:48guests today apart from the local people whatever the Sangat we get in our Gurdwara

01:52because being another Monday is a working day that's all the thing is like on a Friday we

01:57have a big number there in Gurdwara, we get approximately between 10 to 15,000 people here

02:02on a Friday and we cook on a Friday approximately around 700 kgs of rice and

02:096 to 700 kgs of lentils are being used and 1200 to 1500 kgs of flour is being used on

02:17only on a Friday because we get people from all walks of life in the Gurdwara side and believe

02:23me like the people we get people from 46 religions here and people all religion people are welcomed

02:32here this is a place of humanity one because we believe that humanity is the first religion

02:39and we all religions tell you to be good human being. Today's menu is like in a starters we have

02:45some spring rolls some samosas and some paneer tikkas are there and apart from that we have

02:52like four to five types of our salad become the hummus and fattoush salad like then we have

03:00chickpea salad then we have one more baba hummus

03:07then we are in the main course we have a veg biryani, dal bukhara, kurkuri bhindi and

03:15one shaman is there and plus in the desserts we have gajar halwa and gajar halwa and rasmalai is

03:23there and plus the kheer. We are doing the preparation since morning because the little

03:28work has to be started on the morning actually from marination of the paneer tikka we have to

03:32do from since morning only because we need four hours to five hours for after marination we can cook.