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Eid in my point of view
(info Rheema and Iman, pictures from flickr.com )

Whenever it's almost the time of the year when Eid falls I get so excited. I really cannot wait! So now I am going to tell you how I celebrate Eid. But before we talk about that we will talk about the holy month of Ramadan.

Ramadan is the month when Muslims fast. We cannot eat anything. It is not like other religions where you can at least eat bread or other things.

So basically before fasting I have to wake up whenever it is Sehri time. What that means is that it is before Fajr or sunrise. Fajr is the time when Muslims go to read prayers, and before I go to pray I have to eat breakfast early before that time and rinse my mouth when I'm done. Then I go pray and go back to sleep. When I'm ready to wake up I brush my teeth carefully so I try not to swallow water. After that I go to do Wudu. Wudu is when you have to clean your face, hair, feet, and arms in a certain way. I have to do wudu before I read prayers. There are 5 different prayers at separate timing per day, Fajr, Dhuhr, Asr, Maghrib, and Isha. When it's Maghrib time I go to break my fast and after that I go pray. The same schedule goes on until Eid.

(Eid) al-Fitr is to celebrate the month of Ramadan. Finally, the day is here, time to take out my clothes! There is a special festive kind of clothing called SalwarKameez they are kind of like dresses but fancier I guess you could say or more details on the fabric and to finish it off there is a fabric scarf to translate it in English. All of my family usually meet at one house and we give presents to one another. It is very fun. Usually either my mom or aunt puts henna on my hands. The henna plant is grinded up into paste and used to either dye your hair a color, or to decorate your hands. So when it dries on your hair you have to wash it off and then remains a beautiful color, or if it dries on your hands you have to wash it off so only the beautiful design remains. We just hang out with our family, eat, and take pictures.

Then a couple of months later comes (Eid) al-Adha which is celebrated for the feast of the sacrifice. We do the same thing for both Eids. I hope you like my point of view about The month of Ramadan and Eid.

Eid Interview: My Mom

My mom said that, “Before there were less relatives in the family so she used to go to friends' houses and talk, laugh, and eat. But now we have a lot of family so we spend time with them.”
By Iman Zubair