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title: "Prof. Dr. Nevzat Tarhan: “Ramadan is an important opportunity to grasp the meaning of life”"
description: "Psychiatrist Prof. Dr. Nevzat Tarhan said, \"Spirituality means being able to realize the magnificence of life and the capacity to feel gratitude.\""
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last_updated: 2026-02-27
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# Prof. Dr. Nevzat Tarhan: “Ramadan is an important opportunity to grasp the meaning of life”

## Bilgi

| Özellik | Değer |
|---------|-------|
| **Kategori** | haber |
| **Yayın Tarihi** | 2021-04-20 |
| **Güncelleme** | 2026-02-27 |
| **Kaynak** | [Üsküdar Haber Ajansı](https://uha.com.tr/prof-dr-nevzat-tarhan-ramadan-important-opportunity-to-grasp-meaning-of-life) |

## Özet

Psychiatrist[ Prof. Dr. Nevzat Tarhan](https://www.nevzattarhan.com/?gclid=CjwKCAjwgOGCBhAlEiwA7FUXkuQbI4lE4MQusM5vijMbD4HTGK0V02MHnHRWpz2mTDYQ6atuOkCXvBoCaCMQAvD_BwE), stating that Ramadan offers a very important opportunity to grasp and realize the meaning of life, said, “Spirituality means being able to realize the magnificence of life and the capacity to feel gratitude.” Tarhan also noted that fasting is effective in cleansing the body of toxins and added that the month of Ramadan is a period when endurance training and the ability to delay gratification are learned.

## İçerik

![](https://cdn.uskudar.edu.tr/uploads/images/2021/04/20/800/prof-dr-nevzat-tarhan.jpg)

Üsküdar University Founding Rector, Psychiatrist Prof. Dr. Nevzat Tarhan, made evaluations regarding the effects of the current month of Ramadan on psychology, emotions, and spirituality.

## **Religion serves to make one a good person…**

Prof. Dr. Nevzat Tarhan stated that Ramadan causes many effects on individuals, saying, “Ramadan has many effects on the individual, as well as on society, family, and social structure. Religion is a social institution. Religion serves to make people good and moral. It prevents greed. There is a meaningful story: One day, Satan fell asleep. The wind blew hard, and three feathers fell from Satan. One clung to money, another to position, and the third to ambition. After that day, Satan did nothing. Humans are such beings. We have a wild feeling within us that wants everything. We have a satanic characteristic, under the name of 'nefs' (ego/lower self). In such a situation, it needs to be trained. Ramadan is a period for this training. Ramadan is a period of endurance training, a period where the ability to delay gratification is learned.”

## **With Covid, people began to question existence…**

Stating that religion is not only a psychological and social institution, Prof. Dr. Nevzat Tarhan said, “Religion is also an existential institution. The current new generation and the people of this era are now questioning existentialism. For example, they don’t ask how to perform my worship, but why should I. Nowadays, after Covid, people have started to question existence. Why does life exist? Now I can’t even put my hand to my mouth, I can’t hug my friends, what will happen if I’m left alone, why do I exist? They ask these questions. It is necessary to answer this question. This is the most important issue in Ramadan.”

## **Spirituality is being able to realize the magnificence of life…**

Prof. Dr. Nevzat Tarhan stated that spirituality means “being able to realize the magnificence of life and the capacity to feel gratitude,” adding, “We will remember this during Ramadan. This is humanity’s greatest need right now. Especially after Covid, this is the greatest need. Its equivalent in our culture is called wisdom, Anadolu irfanı (Anatolian wisdom). As a culture of irfan, our ancestors kept this alive beautifully. Mothers, fathers, children learned these things, but now children are not growing up in scarcity or hardship, but in abundance and ease. When they grow up in abundance and ease, they cannot learn these things. These are learned through a little sweat. They are learned by getting tired and putting in effort.”  

## **During Ramadan, one should question oneself**

Prof. Dr. Nevzat Tarhan stated that the feeling of spirituality teaches a person to grasp the meaning of existence, saying, “Spirituality helps to understand the power beyond humanity. It helps to perceive unseen reality. Ramadan is a climate. Ramadan is an atmosphere. Ramadan is not just hunger training. To reduce Ramadan to hunger is to not know the meaning of Ramadan. Ramadan is not just about being hungry or not. The feeling of hunger is what the human ego can tolerate the least. It is what most brings a person into line. The feeling of hunger is the emotion that tunes a person. During Ramadan, one should realize the existential meaning and question, ‘Am I infringing on others’ rights, am I lying, am I leading my life towards good or bad?’”

## **Crises are an opportunity to transform life for the better…**

Prof. Dr. Nevzat Tarhan noted that the Covid-19 pandemic is a tool for questioning the meaning of life, stating, “A relative of ours contracted Covid and is currently receiving treatment. They returned from intensive care. They messaged, ‘After this, I understood the value of breathing. I will set aside all my excessive desires. From now on, my life will be pre-Covid and post-Covid.’ Such crises become opportunities for us to transform life for the better, but only those who have the option of spirituality in their bag can succeed at this. What happens to those who cannot? They fall into intellectual depression and commit suicide. Finland, one of the Nordic countries, recently announced that suicides increased by 15 percent after Covid. In Japan, a Ministry of Loneliness has now been established. Suicides increased greatly after Covid.”

## **Fasting cleanses toxins from the human body…**

Prof. Dr. Nevzat Tarhan stated that Ramadan is a very important opportunity to grasp and realize the meaning of life, saying, “Being able to realize the magnificence of life and increase the capacity for gratitude, to see the extraordinary within the ordinary, to grasp the meaning of existence, and to perceive the power beyond humanity. In short, this is it. If you don’t learn this, during this Ramadan, we will just be ordinary, average people who repeat traditions. We will also make our children a lost generation. Our children will be a generation that leads us in a completely different direction from our purpose. Therefore, this is a grave responsibility. This is now something that science also confirms. I say this with scientific robustness. I call it rational reason, rational belief; this is scientific robustness. I call it rational intuition. To combine these is now the thesis of science. We need to put it into our education system. At least let’s look at this Ramadan with this perspective. Throughout the month of Ramadan, let people perform their religious practices, experience spiritual satisfaction; fasting cleanses toxins from the human body.”

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