Eid means happiness, there are two Eids followed by Muslims depending on their lunar calendar dates. Eid Teaches you to laugh and love others, the two “Eid festivals” are considered as the most important festival and turning point to everyone life to be led happy and peaceful throughout their lifespan.
Do You Know How and Why Muslims Celebrate Eid ul Fitr
Among the two Eid days, Eid al-Fitr is considered as one of the most important days in the Islamic calendar that marks the end of Ramadan. The festival, Eid ul Fitr celebration celebrated by Muslim people over 1 billion around the world in different regions. In the current year, Eid ul Fitr 2019 will be observed on Wednesday 5th June of 2019. The date is an assuming date from the regular calendars, the date may get varies. Muslims used to celebrate their Eid by following the dates from Lunar Calendar.
How Muslim start their Eid?
According to the Islamic calendar, Muslim will start their eid by fasting by the first sighting of the moon; they have to extend their fast until when they sight the next moon. Muslims have to lead their life of 30 days by being fast without drinking any drink and they should not have any food at the time of fast.
They have some religious methods and steps to follow while being in fast. Muslim have to take bath and to get ready and have their breakfast before the scheduled time given based on every year, the scheduled time may get vary by year to year.
After the breakfasts they have to worship their god by pray Fraj, after that, they lead their daily routine life without having any food until evening schedule time. At the evening after sunset, they have to take a fresh bath then have dinner and again them going to worship. There is a condition of every Muslim when they being in fast they have to pray 5 times a day and they have to read the Quran daily.
Why they are being in fast?
Usually, Muslim peoples are very depended on religious and they have trust in their religious quotes and conditions. From their religious quotes, they used to make fasting by the reason to know the sufferings of the poor people to everyone even for the richest people.
Beyond the religious belief, there is a scientific reason while they take fasting yearly once for 30 days by their rules, their body will utilize the new energy after the end of fasting until the next fast. After the end of their fast, they have a religious belief to provide food and required items to charity or needy people near them.
How they celebrate this function?
Ramadan, the day is considering when the Muslim people sight the new moon after 30 days. It is celebrated from the evening of the day to the next day of the evening as “Eid al-Fitr celebration”.
The moon of Shawwal will be the sight on the 10th month in the Islamic Lunar calendar. The day of Ramadan will be observed by a number of Muslim families, they will celebrate the festival with the largest religious fervor.
The “celebration of Ramadan” will get differ in each country, due to the reason of sighting the moon. According to GMT in the world, the sighting of moon time gets differ from country to country.
How they celebrate their festive?
Muslims over the world will celebrate their festival of Eid al-Fitr by starting the day with fresh bath, ramdan Eid prayer. They have the religious rules to be clean and kind throughout their life, so they take a religious bath as by their religious rules and take some seed items of odd number to have as their breakfast and the entire member of the Muslim family even from the child to elder will go to their prayer ground to participate in community prayer.
After Eid Prayers, people greet one to another with the customary happy eid greetings; Ramdan Mubarak is a formal embrace to repeat three times. Then they have their Special eid foods as Sweet eid, salty eid according to their mode of celebration. Mostly Muslim people prefer Sweet dish made in households and share with others to share by eaten in happiness. They can spend their day with friends, family, visiting neighbor home and some elder may take a tour to maddina or mecca.
Muslim people will share gifts and clothes to their kids and often to the poor needy people. But every Muslim people get new clothes to wear on a special occasion to look best on their appearance. The festival revolves to celebrate around the theme of being togetherness and happiness by greeting Happy Eid.
Thus Eid is considered as an occasion of immense rejoice, they spent their fasting days by avoiding food so they prefer the food meals which gets differ from the regular meals. Households prepare special different types of food in the taste of sweet, salt and few to add in their meals in different dishes.
The festival Eid al-Fitr traditionally lasts for three days it depends on how the festive fall on the lunar calendar. The parties and festivities could last much longer than the other eid functions. After denying themselves of food for an entire month, Ramadan comes to break their fasting ritual; food plays an important role to break their fasting in Eid al-Fitr. The real feast begins on their lunch after morning prayers.
