When I see everyone wearing colourful clothes and bright smiles today, I know not everyone is celebrating Eid the same way. When I see the rows of delicious, cultural dishes and smell the aroma, I know not everyone will experience the same happiness today. When I see children running around boasting about how much money they got, I know this is not a sight everyone will see today.
So this post is for every Muslim celebrating Eid: the ones with huge parties, the ones who get excited to wake up early and recite the Takbeer, the ones who love exchanging gifts, the ones who have extended family over. And especially for the ones that are working, the ones that have school, the ones that are away from home, the ones that aren’t near loved ones, the ones that feel Eid has lost its hype, the ones with a broken family or none at all. This is post is especially for them.
Eid is the one thing we have as Muslims. We don’t celebrate Christmas or Birthdays (arguable) or any other day as much as we should this one. It is a blessed day especially for Muslims. They’ve taken everything from us. They took our pride, our credit, our freedom, our lives. But this day, this day is ours and we can’t let them take it away too.
I get so so sad when people say, “ugh Eid is so boring” because I know, wallah, I know how boring it can be but to change that, we have to be excited and passionate and arrange things.
Go for a long drive and pack food and have a picnic outside somewhere in the park.
Or go laser tagging or to the beach or go bowling or go skating or go to a theme park or buy your friends/family gifts at the mall because it’s too late to do an Eid exchange now.
And at night go out to eat at a restaurant or eat at home and go for dessert or frozen yogurt or go out for both.
Drive somewhere far at night and do fireworks.
Invite people over and throw a big party.
Get dressed up, like over dressed up with bangles and henna and perhaps do it at the masjid for little girls so they’ll be happy and you get reward Insha Allah.
Clean your house, make sweets and hand them out to neighbors or at the masjid.
Invite random muslims from the masjid over for dinner.
They’ve taken everything from our religion and destroyed or portrayed it negatively. We can’t let them do that to Eid too.
Always remember the Ummah in your duaas and have a blessed, unforgettable day!
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