Friday, 2 September 2011

How spend Eid

As in previous years Eid came and passed  but we had left think that what is eid and how we should spend it. Eid is the day to tank God for his blessings. Eid is Arabic world meaning "feast, festival, holiday." 
This word comes from the word "عَوْدَتْ" (awdat) which means "to turn, to recur, to come again and again since it returns every year thus the meaning is changed and it is meant "the festival, the feast or holiday." The plural form of it is "ayaad." 
Eid greetings are called "ta'yid", congratulate each others's eid is called "muayada. " 

If we study the lives of the Companions and our pious predecessors we will see that even though they used to worship extensively in the month of Ramadaan, they would still feel regret and sorrow on the day of Eid. They were constantly worried about the fact of whether or not they had fulfilled the rights of Ramadaan, just as it is reported about Hazrat Umar (Radiallahu Ta'ala Anh) that on the day of Eid, he sat in a corner and cried so much that his blessed beard became soaked. When people asked the reason for this, he replied, "How can a person who does not know if his fasts have been accepted celebrate Eid?" That Hazrat Umar (Radiallahu Ta'ala 'Anh) about whom Rasoolullah (Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam) said that his good deeds are equivalent to the number of stars in the sky, is crying upon reflecting as to whether his fasts have been accepted or not, whether he has obeyed the orders of Almighty Allah properly and if Allah Ta'ala is pleased with them. Allahu Akbar! And yet sinners like us are absolutely carefree and cannot wait to engage ourselves into sin again!

It was on the day of Eid-ul-Fitr that a man once entered the presence of Hadrat Ali (Radiallahu Ta'ala Anh) and found him eating coarse brown bread. "Today is the day of Eid, yet here you are, eating coarse brown bread!" the man exclaimed. So Hadrat Ali (Radiallahu Ta'ala Anh) replied to the visitor, saying, "Today is the day of Eid for someone whose fast has been accepted, whose effort has been deemed worthy, and whose sin has been forgiven. Today is Eid for us, and tomorrow is Eid for us. Every day in which we do not disobey Allah Ta'ala is an Eid for us."

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