The Muslim Celebration of Eid-ul-Fitr

'Idul-Fitr is a Muslims festival which is celebrated on the first day of Shawwal, the tenth month of the Islamic year. This month is followed by Ramazan in which Muslims fast for whole month.

As soon as the moon of Shawal is sighted, which marks arrival of   Eid-ul-Fitr (the "Festival of the Breaking of the Fast). This celebration is conducted in following ways.

1.     Distribution of alms also called Sadaqatu'l-Fitr. In this charity is given to needy or poor people, which is almost 5 lbs of wheat, dates and fruit or equivalent money.

2.     After giving customary charity, all muslims gather at Idgah (place for offering prayer) in large congregations. This idgah is an open place or a flat ground which is only used for offering Eid preyers.

3.     Muslims offer two rak’ahs of prayers together. After prayers, imam ascends the mimbar, or pulpit and delivers khutbah.

4.     Eid prayer is said before kutbah and without Azaan (call for prayers).

5.     After offering prayers, all muslims hug and congratulate each other for this festival and keeping fast.

This muslim celebration is very colorful as every muslim man, woman and kid wear new and colorful clothes. Special food and delicacies are prepared and distributed to neighbor. Family and friends get together are arranged. Even people visit graveyards in remembrance of their departed relatives, they pray for their forgiveness from Allah.    

Knowing to Stay Happy Through Experience

People go through life long experience spending life in fulfilling daily needs of family, working harder in their jobs, contesting to earn more money and going ahead of other. Those who study lessons of life through experience do get succeeded in knowing the tricks of trade. What tricks are these? How to recognize these and how to exploit them? 

What we do not recognize and experience are really ordinary things which get matured if adopted within some time. I have learned some of these traits which will definitely bring success and happiness if adopted early. 

No 1.. Stick to Whatever You Do  Switching job or hobbies never make you master. Even though you started a job as naive, must stick to it. Through experience you understand the tricks and those tricks if mastered will make you a Master. 

No 2.. Love Whatever You Do   One must take interest in whatever you do. Sometimes people opt jobs out of necessity and not as their passion. It looks very hard in initial period of employment but one gets use to that if one is stick to it. A time comes when you start enjoying whatever you do and start to explore good things in it.  

No 3.. Get Social in Your Field  Knowing people of your field make you understand other view points. You learn from their experience and explore the secret of your job earlier than you understand through your own experience.

Celebration of Life In Moments

 

Hey! Have we ever thought to get the essence of moments passing by every day, around us?  How these just moments can be of an emotional sensitive value, a joy and thanks to creator of nature? Ok, in this article, I will endeavour to highlight some of the ways if we adopt can just change a normal moment of life as a celebration in us and making us feel special for ourselves and for people around us. In doing so and to draw certain conclusions, we will first discuss the different environments through which different category of people live with resources and control over specific actions in life. After that I will discuss the certain factors which may keep bugging our mind even if we consider them just as a thought. Finally how to live in the specific or all moments of life despite all odds.

Environment Around Us     

 As we all are aware the we live in a world that brings mix of people around the globe. Similarly political, social and economical situations also pose different impacts upon the lives of the individuals. Political scene may be disturbing day to day life, economic downfall may raise living cost and social changes may change attitude. I will describe these environmental factors as negative factors around every one living in a challenged world, where quest for being influential  has arrested minds of almost every nation. Although we can not ignore these variables of society or nation as these define mindset, lifestyle and belief of societies but also play an important factors in growing distress amongst the masses.

Resources and Control 

To earn resources every one has to struggle despite of the fact that how is the environment around him or her. Without resources there is no living. They may be in shape of a Government or private job, business small or huge and daily struggle for living with no permanent solution. Despite of effort there are many who might have no control over their resources like a government employee may not make his boss satisfy in every task, private employee may have to face his boss authority for coming late to office, a businessman may have certain serious issues in procurement or partnerships etc etc. 

Effects of These Variables on Life 

Now assume that a government employee unhappy with his senior officer or a  private employee annoyed with his boss return from office. What would be his mood? disturbing, unwilling, depressed, helpless or furious. A new bug has attacked besides all other environmental variables. Wife, girl friend, children or parents waiting for you at your place to break a good news on your return may get also attacked by the same bug after looking at your worried face... So, the happy moments that were about to come may get delayed...... 

How to Celebrate Moments

Love, laugh, likeness, nature, family, friends and children are the generators of positive energy around us but very sensitive to our action and highly prone to negative environment. So, how to protect these to have a positive effects around us in all odds of life. Few remedies are:-

1. Deal your official work only in the office. Do not take issues to home.....but if you need your wife or friends to suggest some solution to your specific official problem, you should not be overwhelmed by the problem all the time......Lock it in some corner of mind and let yourself free to fly with positive energy and when the time is right then discuss it out.........DO NOT let problems steal your happy moments.

2. Feel the nature to relief your stress before interacting with your love one.......Nature is a big healer or reliever.

3. Do not think of Boss once he is not around..... Even if some bug come to your mind just IGNORE it because it is you who has the control of your mind and not the BUG.

4. Look at the face of your loved ones and admire their happiness and concentrate on positive energy.

Above are the few things to relief your stress and make every moment a special moment for your life.    

Eid Ul Azha

Azha means "big" in Arabic. This is known as "Bari Eid" of "Big Eid" and is celebrated on 10th of ZilHaj (last month in Islamic calender. This Eid is celebrated in memories of Hazrat Ibrahim's spirit to sacrifice his son for Allah. Following are few celebrations of Eid ul Azha:

Offering of Eid Prayer 

This is the main event of Eid ul Azha, all muslims offer prayer collectively in the morning wearing new clothes. Children also accompany their fathers and all relative go together to the "Eid Gah" a place or ground  designated for offering collective prayer. After the prayer every one wishes "Eid Mubarik" to every other person by hugging each other.

 Qurbani

Qurbani or Sacrifice of animals i.e goats, Buffalo and camels is carried out to highlight the sacrifice spirit of Hazart Ibrahim. The meat of scarified animal is distributed in three parts. One part is given to relatives, 1 the poors or need  and 1 for their selves.