The Joy of 'Eid

After a month of spiritual renewal and rebirth, Muslims come together on 'Eid al-Fitr and share their happiness and joy with each other. The days of 'Eid are days in which Muslims socialize and unite; the fasts, the Qur'an recitations, the prayers and the charity done during this month have brings people together. 

It is the holiday for those who made their fasts a shield against all evil. It is the holiday of the ones who share their meals with the poor, the needy and the orphans, and the ones who takes them under their own wings. It is the holiday of the people who live by the meaning of Ramadan; the month of patience, gratitude, worship, repentance, unity and Qur'an.

During the Holidays, Muslims have made it a custom to kiss the hands of the elders (out of respect), settle conflicts between people, to visit family, to honor friendships and to answer the needs of the poor and deprived. Muslims become a part of a whole; they share their feelings of joy, happiness and unite all together. The meaning of “unity” and “we” is best understood during such times. By sharing the same meal, praying side by side under the same roof, turning towards the same Qiblah, supplicating to the same Lord, and realizing that they are the people of the same Prophet make people feel the unity in their hearts. Differences do not prevent unity and coherence. 

The hearts of the believers, purified by fasting, open up to each other with 'Eid al-Fitr and interlock together. All of them hope that their fasts expiated them from their sins and from the Hell fire. They endured hunger, thirst, and all kinds of difficulties only for the sake of their Lord, fasting only for His sake. Therefore do they supplicate that they are forgiven for their sins thanks to their fasts. And they wish to enter the everlasting Paradise through the Gates of Rayyan, the gates exclusively for the fasting believers...

“There is a gate in Paradise named Rayyan. Only the people who observe their fasts can enter through this gate...” (Muslim, Sawm, 166)