Dear Distinguished Members,

Gulberenk, as it occurs every year during the month of Ramadan, has given a feast break this year again. Moreover, likewise in the previous feasts, we contemplated all together in this feast break the Ramadan as well.

It has turned out that this Ramadan once again has meant to meet with our loved ones, our family, neighbors, relatives to share the joy. It has turned out that Ramadan has meant kissing the hands of our grandfathers, receiving the prayers and good wishes of our grandmothers, and to visit our villages, if there is one, and fulfill our longing. The feast days were the days of joy that our beloved Allah, the Most High, bestowed upon us.

Feasts are special days where we give joy to the hearts of the poor by giving alms, we take each other’s hearts with treats, and we gain morale and joy by experiencing the sunnah of the Prophet of gifting people around us.

So what is the name of this holiday or rather feast? Some say Feast of Sweets. Well, if you are going to give a feast the name of something served, why necessarily call it “sweets”? If someone goes out and says, “Naah, I do not think it is is all about sweets, for me it is Feast of Baklava!”. What would we do? Or if someone else comes out and says, “No, dear! For me it is the Feast of Turkish Delight!”. How will we get out of it? How would one solve this issue?

Let us find out the best and true answer to this troubling issue: In fact, the truth is that the name of the feast following the month of Ramadan, logically is the Feast of Ramadan. One of the most precious rewards of those who have continued patiently fasting for a month by holding the command of Allah is wonderfully this the feast.

We, as Gulberenk Children, have spent the Ramadan Feast with this consciousness, hand in hand, heart to heart and filled with love. We have made it even more beautiful by praying to the needy ones, consolidated everyone. Have become friends to the lonely ones, and supported the afflicted ones.

There is a Turkish saying that says, “The lunatic celebrates each day like it is a feast”. Thereby, it turns out that there are some people who in fact can spend every day with the joy of feast. But these people are often labeled as insane by society. Perhaps we should rethink the phrase just written above. Maybe one can not become a Saint without getting insane?! Maybe one should re-hink this interesting bond between insanity and saintship.

After all, Gulberenk Children take every opportunity to contemplate deeply on everything.

Oh our Beloved Allah! Let us be among the ones who love you, those who live in harmony with your commands, those who run for the sake of good and only goodness! May our feasts be really feasts, and our hearts be merciful to everyone! Amen!