A Very Happy Eid Mubarak To All
Today marks the end of the Holy month of Ramadan. I am in sorrow and I feel dejected. The blessings that this month brings with itself are over. In Ramadan there is this serene environment no matter where you go, you literally feel like blessings from God are showering upon you. But with the end of this month, I feel so low. Like all of the blessings are over too. Although blessings remain when you do good deeds but not as much as during Ramadan.
There is this beautiful routine that we follow, getting up in the middle of the night for suhoor, reciting the Holy Quran, praying Fajar, and taking nap. Then we get up a little late in the afternoon, pray again, and get iftar ready. My mom always says that in Ramadan I get free from the tension of cooking as what to cook because in Ramadan only dinner is cooked. Tomorrow there will be no suhoor no iftar.
It is eid tomorrow by the way and it is also a blessing and a reward for Muslims for fasting the entire month of Ramadan. On the night of Eid, girls go to the market to buy dresses for Eid, to get their henah done, and to buy bangles matching their dress color. After returning home, they press their Eid dresses and hang them to wear the next day. For me, it is always the most precious moment when I press my Eid dress and I would look at it again and again thinking that I will wear it the next day.
Then Eid comes, initially, you feel low because there is a sudden change of routine as you get up and do breakfast. But as the day passes and you wear your Eid dress and wish everyone a happy Eid Mubarak, then everything seems fine.
People usually make “vermicelli” as a sweet dish along with chana chat on the day of Eid. It is kind of a tradition. Then either relative would come to your house or you go to your relatives, which in most of the cases are your grandparents.
Luckily, on this Eid, my maternal grandmother is with me at my home so it’s going to be fun. As our grandparents are a blessing and if they are with us it means we are lucky. Sadly my paternal grandparents and my maternal grandfather are dead and my maternal grandmother is the only one I’ve got left with so I am glad she’s here with me.
One thing that I really want to pinpoint here is that this night of Eid which is known as “Chaand Rat (Moon Night)” is not meant for shopping and wasting our time on useless things. We feel like we prayed and did all good deeds in the month of Ramadan so now we need to be relaxed. But actually, chaand rat is the time when you reap your reward by praying more and getting more close to God. It is the night when you get rewarded for all the hard work you did during that one month, so now if you will go on wasting this night it is like you don’t need the reward and all your hard work is going to waste. So we need to change this trend of spending this night in shopping malls instead of praying.
I wish all of you a very Happy Eid Mubarak.
Stay happy!
Keep smiling!
Thank you for your time!
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