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The letter an Ottoman soldier sent to his daughter from the Front during Ramadan.
“My beautiful daughter, Today is July 14, the second day of Ramadān. Shaykh al-Islām issued a fatwa saying that you may not fast. But I did not feel comfortable. I intend to fast. At suhūr, I found two root çiriş (a grass smaller than a leek) among the bushes. I had suhür with them. We dug new trenches during the day. I was never silent.
The offensive has increased. We couldn’t get our heads out. In the evening, a soldier recited the call to prayer. Inside the trench, the canteen circulated from hand to hand. Everyone broke their fast with water. I thought I was the only one fasting. It turns out that all of the troop were fasting. The flask came to me last. It came, but I was ashamed of myself. My friends all fasted without suhür. I, on the other hand, felt embarrassed towards my friends because I ate two çiriş.
That day, I shed tears asking how can I repay the people of Erzurum, Darende and Yenice who were m*rtyrs while fasting...”