Ramadan coincides with Lent this year. I've never heard of Lent before. My Irish friend told me about it. Christians fast for 40 days while Muslims fast for a month, 30 or 29 days depending on the lunar cycle. It's interesting how much our beliefs have in common, no matter what religions or beliefs we follow. However, we still fight and kill each other. Some people think that a specific religion or belief is better than others. They believe that their faith has the ultimate truth while others are only a bunch of lies. At the core, they have the same truth but they tell it differently.

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After having the first Sahoor of Ramadan, I wanted to kill time and loneliness so I kept watching the last few episodes of the series called "Westerner Abdel Kader or Al-Khawaja Abdel Kader".

I liked the series so much; the performance, the dialogue and the soundtrack. In the end, AbdelKader, previously called Herbert, managed to marry Zeinab, with the consent of her second brother. However, as soon as her first brother, the one who was totally against it, knew about it, he got so furious. He went to AbdelKader and Zeinab to congratulate them, then he ordered his guardians to block all the house entries, and he set the house on fire. The following day, the village people ransacked the house but they found nothing left from AbdelKader and Zeinab, not a bone or a strand of hair.

It was narrated in the series that AbdelKader had Karama, a kind of supernatural power that enabled him to save himself and Zeinab from the fire. They fled to Sudan where they lived for one year before moving to Cairo.

I'm not sure I believe in supernatural powers. I wish they existed. Life would be much easier then. Maybe I could heal my mother from dementia and I'd have her with me now, instead of spending Ramadan on my own.