Breaking the Fast at the World’s Largest Iftar

Each night of Ramadan, thousands of pilgrims come together to pray and break the fast at the holy shrine of Imam Reza, in Mashhad, Iran. It’s the world’s largest iftar, a meal eaten after sunset by Muslims observing Ramadan to break their daily fast. Cooking for such a crowd starts early and goes long. Over 400 volunteer chefs arrive at 5 a.m. to make culinary magic from 2 tons of fresh vegetables, 3 tons of meat and 4 tons of rice.
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[@hanzalakhan2741]

First ramdaan without my dad, may ALLAH give him best place in jannah

[@markanderson3826]

Amen

[@eysank]

Ameen

[@swesleyc7]

The Father feeding his son at 2:00 melted my heart.

[@almaskabir3280]

It's every father's story

[@skythrill522]

It's the mother not the father.

[@mery_rsaa]

@@almaskabir3280 not everyone has a father

[@mayrainjay8121]

What a wonderful custom! It’s so nice to see these stories about, unfortunately, places that have more negative representations than positive ones!! Thank you what a wonderful story !

[@silversolarfire5473]

Mary Jane Smith Iran and Iraq have their own beauties in their own special way. All it takes is to look past the assumptions to see it.

[@kindpeaceinworld7897]

Sometimes, when something is very good , excellent and great , some people say bad and negative things a lot about it. And unfortunately it's Iran's story , that some people say negative and bad about Iran , despite all of great places and very veeery kind and simple people in it.thank you

[@rijowanaazadtonni3572]

Salam From Bangladesh 🇧🇩🇮🇷 Love &respect to our ancient civilized brother country Iranian rich culture hospitality &history attached me a lot Wish to visit Tehran isfahan Qom Mashhad &many more cities in Iran

[@sadikaafrin5800]

ইরান আমার স্বপ্নের দেশ একদিন যাবো ইনশাল্লাহ !

[@zccau2316]

you should learn how shiiasm was forced on Iran by the Safavids. They should go back to being sunni like you always used to

[@sadikaafrin5800]

@@zccau2316 If u do not like Iran so why did u watch their vedio? who invite u ! please stop spread hate

[@jasonjason5821]

@@sadikaafrin5800 because inside he wants to be Shia

[@sadikaafrin5800]

@@jasonjason5821 Where r u from ?

[@salma-nw9fe]

MashaAllah wonderful I am seeing this in the month of holy Ramadan I m always fascinated about Iran's culture and history we shared allott of bond in the past lots of love from india 🇮🇳❤️🇮🇷

[@twinklingstar131]

Respect to all the volunteers who are working so hard preparing delicacies for Iftar🙏🙏🙏

[@benrodir2]

My fat butt could never fast. Much respect from a fellow follower of God!

[@mcchonky5709]

❤️❤️❤️

[@amanbaig6581]

U can try atleast a week or a day u ll see the magical benefit off it

[@salmanshaikh-zu3xk]

It's all in your head brother ... nothing is impossible

[@muhammadabubakar3238]

Its not that hard

[@rihadalif1670]

Its the next day after eid in 2021...and i am already missing Ramadan...🙁 i wish everyone reading these to have a great, prosperous, happy times ahead in your life no matter which belief or ethnicity you belong to 😊😊

[@jawad8727]

the best place ever! you should visit Imam Reza shrine .. it is a wonderful experience

[@gn8900]

@🙆 Jawad Imam Raza A.S* ♥️

[@zccau2316]

you Iranian should learn how shiiasm was forced on your by the Safavids and go back to being sunni like you always used to

[@silversolarfire5473]

Only the shia Muslims have really come together time and again. Where else will you find a gathering of this many muslims like this? In the pilgrimmage to the Holy shrines every year and the jaloos all over the world. #mashallah

[@bilalarif4781]

Not really I believe, prophet's masjid(Madinah) ,masjid al Haram (Makkah) Sheikh Zayed masjid (Abu Dhabi) and many more hosts iftar Hajj, Taraweeh, Umrah, Makkah, Madinah, like there are many places sunni come together and also hosting iftar is done all over the world in Pakistan, Saudi Arabia etc.

[@demon3286]

Nor shia nor Sunni only muslim together we strong united ummah

[@lifeinjapan1592]

Umm, Karachi, Pakistan has hosted a suhoor of around 20,000-25,000 people all together. Shias, sunnis, even non-muslims were welcome. You should search JDC Sehri in Karachi it might probably one of the biggest suhoor in the world.

[@bilalarif4781]

@@lifeinjapan1592 yeah ik about jdc didn't know about the suhoor tho But like i was just letting him know wasn't tryna stir any sunni/shia thing

[@zccau2316]

you Iranian should learn how shiiasm was forced on your by the Safavids and go back to being sunni like you always used to

[@sz7463]

amazing! respect to all the volunteers

[@nurmuhammadwahid1957]

Masya allah, happy ramadhan 1442 H (2021)

[@syednaqvi7997]

A place full of miracles

[@bangtanbts5699]

Mashallah!

[@armwrestlingfan6804]

FARYAL SAJID allah is geyyyy! 😂

[@armwrestlingfan6804]

Anchor BRO Hoho, good one! 😂 I hope I burn real good! Fiction can't get insulted! Only people who want u punished over a funny cartoon can! #Jesuischarlie

[@raehanmzaidanp4452]

Muhammad Ali jesus is geyyyy

[@raehanmzaidanp4452]

Muhammad Ali you its an irony since your youtube name begins with muhamad

[@armwrestlingfan6804]

Raehan Mzaidanp jesus isn't real and he's in the geyyy quran toooo. you don't know how to use irony correctly and you're an ignorant, unoriginal degenerate that assumes everybody with a certain name must be a follower of crapIslam. (and it's just a youtube username.) Weuweuweu! 🔥

[@emeraldarihays2780]

What a lovely mosque..theye even place nice plants at the middle of the eating area.

[@almualim7218]

This is the burial of one of the grandchildren of the Prophet Mohammad

[@gagan_sikhi]

Great grandson of prophet Muhammad pbuh is buried there, named imam raza pbuh

[@syedali-rs8cj]

Asalamu alay kum, Ramadan Mubarak to all Muslims around the world.

[@drhamdaankhan3691]

Respect to all of you for all organizers.

[@aminjorban]

I love emam Reza

[@tasnim569]

The largest iftar in the world is in Mecca, Saudi Arabia (Al-Haram area of Mecca) that servers 1m people.

[@asadaden4914]

Wow what a beautiful event. MASHALLAH

[@mahmudaakhter6626]

Love you Iran. From Bangladesh.

[@odysseyguy8702]

What peaceful people!

[@daddykarl3312]

Amazing.... Salam from KL.. Malaysia.....

[@nabarunr3]

This is so wholesome.

[@didouysimba2207]

Mashaallah alhamdulilla

[@syedazainab3]

Mashad is a heaven in itself even more... Bcoz of the holy personality's tomb there

[@HMD1986-]

Come on man . More than heaven. This is not acceptable

[@RN-um2qo]

It's part of heaven ofcource

[@HMD1986-]

@@RN-um2qo exaggeration.

[@handlevery1karefully]

Masha Allah!

[@mureedabbas3392]

Ma Sha Allah

[@cyyy]

represent 🇮🇷🤘🏼

[@alireza127]

@Saiyed Al Sahad Safa New Salam alaykum in Iran we are Muslims thank u

[@ocashofficial2675]

@@alireza127 shia's u mean

[@safawiya782]

@@ocashofficial2675 Yeah shias are true muslims.

[@ocashofficial2675]

@@safawiya782 no shias are muslims but not the right way of the prophet saw shias ignorant and wont listen to the true hadiths

[@zccau2316]

@@alireza127 you Iranian should learn how shiiasm was forced on your by the Safavids and go back to being sunni like you always used to be

[@truthriser1114]

Islam is greater than humanity . it just don't tell but shows the way .

[@SuhailAhmedSharif]

MaShaAllah!

[@womenfemale1849]

Ramezan MUBARAK 🌷🌷🌷🌷

[@JunaidKhan-up2nb]

Masha Allah.

[@potterheadpix1e471]

Was it still be held this year?

[@syednaqvi7997]

Masha'Allah

[@yuartantomanbatam8453]

MasyaAllah allhhakbar...

[@staysolid3119]

This is so beautiful

[@warmac88]

I wouldn't mind eating there. 😎

[@kindpeaceinworld7897]

Me toooo😂😂😂

[@raheelhaider9295]

MashaAllah

[@haririshafa5924]

Alhamdulillah

[@milkycat6901]

That's so neat!

[@legotheepic3611]

May Allah reward them

[@TheZeyyyyy]

Beautiful

[@Stodium]

beautiful

[@mirroma7793]

MashAllah

[@RealHogweed]

sit, pray and eat "together"

[@kenjai3153]

Mashaallah

[@agussururi1195]

Is that portion per person Too much ? If its me i cant complete full plate

[@ariaahmadi7864]

Mashallah

[@pohoiki922]

That girl in black was cute

[@EukalyptusBonBon]

Haka Lau but...most of them wearing black 😂

[@yaboicash6666]

The joke ----> Perhaps many who stumble across this comment

[@10riddles]

Good one buddy 😂

[@matrix1262]

Lower your gaze

[@lilkandy7042]

Stfy

[@fatmaatma5280]

Their food is so healthy. Pakistani iftar is a heart attack waiting to happen drenched in fat and cholesterol.this is an inspiring menu.

[@mtm4671]

Lol

[@rh8656]

Depends on ur fan tbh

[@alhomsiyyah]

Samosas though 😭

[@haiderszn]

Nishimiya Shouko lol And it only gets worse on Eid when we don't have to fast any more. You could eat like 10 samosas while thinking that you only ate two.

[@zararashraf]

I'm Pakistani and I agree.

[@fitrotulimaniyah5850]

MasyaAllah

[@VCOMPOST]

Mashallah mashallah mashallah

[@TheTikox]

Gotta go fast

[@safieht5299]

السلام علیک یاعلی بن موسی ارضا الامام التقی النقی و حجتک علی من خلقه.

[@samgruzinskiy]

چه خوب!

[@mahmudabegum3566]

I wish to go and enjoy

[@kindpeaceinworld7897]

Me toooo

[@mansoormattil1264]

Grand 👍👍👍

[@khaled_mufc2638]

I think the largest iftar is at the holy mosque in mecca. by far more that 1 million.

[@kamrulhasan3468]

Do you even know how much 1m means?

[@kindpeaceinworld7897]

Even if be true, we cannot consider and count Mecca with other countries. Mecca or KARBALA ,... are in different part.

[@barrymanilow605]

My mouth is salivating that food looks so so good

[@adigato3092]

when theres a catholic video, theres almost no fighting but a islamic video and everyone starts fighting

[@chomusuke1013]

This is the side of muslims that media doesnt show

[@TheShubLub]

Yeah just look at all those free women!

[@lee9333]

The media here shows a lot of good about Muslims. I rarely see anything negative about them unless I'm watching Fox or a neo-conservative station. There's good and bad in all things though (namely people; not necessarily the religion. People will always be flawed).

[@silversolarfire5473]

TheShubLub believe it or not, bitch, those women are just as free as men

[@odysseyguy8702]

TheShubLub ikr they are!

[@fatehyabali]

❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@afterpasthours7504]

But what happens if it rains

[@JustinZamora]

I wanna join this

[@AbdulRasheed-rj1le]

World Largest iftari held in Madina Shareef and Makkah Shareef where more then 1 million Rozadar iftari arrangements has been carried out

[@kamranzafar9737]

respect in saying that i mean iftar, it is not breaking iftar, but iftar is a time when muslims completes the time of roza.

[@keyqchan]

The video upload time's a few weeks late, but I suppose it's better than nothing.

[@sugreev2001]

Doubt this is the largest iftar. There are cities in South Asia with larger Muslim populations and far bigger mosques, like Delhi in India or Lahore in Pakistan etc. But probably the biggest must be Mecca.

[@flosyd7891]

still serving a 13000 ppl per day is huge challenge

[@silversolarfire5473]

Mecca doesn't have people gathering to break the fast together. The kaaba is there, but how will they bring the food?

[@tasnim569]

Dayan H Mecca is a CITY, and the Kaaba’ is in an area called “Al-Haram”

[@FBWUniverseMode]

Ramadan ended almost 2 months ago

[@riooprayogo]

AMiNe_PredaTor that's what I thought but at least I've found out something new haha

[@silversolarfire5473]

Editing takes time

[@ranaashraf12]

AminePredator no it’s almost ending (Eid is in 3 days!) btw I’m watching in 2019

[@tasnim569]

Princess Emaan Eid Mubarak!

[@useful1005]

That's why Iran United

[@user-fl3qb4eo2l]

I love Iranians

[@asavlogsalltruthrevealed7483]

U get more in other countries

[@abduallahahmed8520]

An issue in Arabic is that you can speak the same language, but understand differently depending on where ur from

[@kylem1112]

iranians speak farsi (persian) not arabic

[@tasnim569]

kylem1112 first, Persian is different from Farsi. Persian is not a local dialect of Arabic, but Farsi is a local dialect of Arabic.

[@user-xm6df2xf5o]

Dang you birds

[@safieht5299]

یا امام رئوف

[@pineapplelord2422]

0.43 are you sureeee????

[@askalotofquestions]

Breakfast... break fast

[@zanernobrainer]

WELLS FARGO

[@songtv2247]

The channel Great Big Story is funded by wells fargo

[@millenium2003]

I'm hungry

[@amandakoop6390]

i have always wanted to know the traditional way to celebrate the end of Ramadan

[@bobjo3549]

Amanda Koop actualy iftar is what peopl do during the end of the day the end of ramadan is celbrated on 3id el adha its basically muslim christmas as kids eather get close or money

[@amandakoop6390]

thanks for explaining

[@bobjo3549]

No problem

[@empresshedo9350]

Amanda Koop most of the time its celebrated by a family get together eating breakfast(iftar) in the morning instead of sundown to mark the end of ramadan thus were the special occasion gets its name the eating breakfast holyday (eid al iftar)

[@rian95official]

eat, a lot

[@mahbubdawood2909]

So sad to see today muslims are celebrating ramadan while it was sad moments for our prophet M.S.W.(pbuh)and his swabas who sacrificed themselves with hunger and battle with an Israel yahudhis

[@moosa9850]

I guess, nobody heard of Makkah, I was there in 1998, over 1 million ppl broke fast during Ramadan almost every night, not sure about the last 10 nights though, could've been much more. All the best to all my Muslim family for the rest of Ramadan and have a joyous Eid ul Fitr.

[@S2GAbdullahG]

Way

[@jessepinkman6047]

Abu Dahbi 30k people aftar

[@AjirThamlika]

The most beautiful thing I have seen today

[@custommaverick0117]

13,000? Umm ever been to Masjid Nabwi?

[@kingsxvge]

141

[@salman_rudro07]

I'm also a Muslim.

[@sharadtiwari1240]

Golden temple serves 50000 people per day

[@kderailed86]

Ok so? The islamic world is much richer u fool

[@annemarielaluna9350]

isn't it in UEA the biggest iftar?

[@tasnim569]

It’s Makkah

[@bakhtawarfatima6852]

Its mashad (Iran)

[@NumbCornsGG]

Whoever volunteered this, they're crazy

[@surfdetective]

How can you cook without tasting??..

[@kurukuru4120]

They do taste but not swallow.

[@surfdetective]

Azemi Farhan like pres.clinton

[@odysseyguy8702]

GREAT WHITE PLANT EATER maybe they make someone who isn’t fasting taste it!

[@Splati]

I am muslim

[@hbm9144]

The biggest iftar?! Even bigger than the ones in Makkah and Medina? I don't think so.

[@hbm9144]

@Comrade Stalin could've said in the title it's the "biggest iftar under one specific criterion" instead of just "the world's largest iftar"

[@fathimamukaram7888]

13000 ppl doesn't make it the world's largest iftar. Haven't u heard of Madinah. Or Mecca for that reason. Get ur facts right. We subscribe for a reason.

[@riceisprotein9618]

I am Muslim and I have never seen this

[@asandwich4666]

RICEISPROTEIN then I’m guessing you’ve never been to Iran?

[@riceisprotein9618]

I have been to Dubai and Bangladesh but no I have not been to Iran

[@mtm4671]

Why did you choose illuminati photo for your profile if you are a Muslim?

[@elhamhamidian6239]

Your profile picture and you're being muslim doesn't match

[@riceisprotein9618]

It's a inside joke between me and my friends

[@cyanokid4895]

Before covid19

[@asimali4409]

The title of the video is false. The largest iftaar in the world is at Masjid e Haram in the city of Makkah where millions of believers gather from across the globe throughout the complete month of Ramazan.. There is nothing like it in the whole world if you ever have a chance to be a part of it

[@reelstrends3752]

2024 ramadan Kareem | pray for palestine 🇵🇸