Question

October 22, 2006 at 5:33 am (Islam)


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Why don’t we take Eid al Adha as seriously as Eid al Fitr? I know it’s because we feel it when we stop fasting after Ramadan but…isn’t Eid al Adha longer and isn’t it considered a bigger Eid than Eid al Fitr? 

The Fiqh of Eid

The Signifigance of Eid al Fitr

Fiqh of Eid al-Adha

Wikipedia:  Eid al Fitr

Eid al Fitr greeting cards
 

3 Comments

  1. Dynamite Soul said,

    October 23, 2006 at 2:55 am

    As salaamu alaikum,

    To be honest, it was years after shahada that i discovered that Eid al Adha warranted celebration. Before then, I thought Eid al Fitr was the only Eid of festivities. To this day, I have never witnessed any celebration bigger than or comparable to Eid al Fitr. Insha Allah we will change all of that.

  2. izzymo said,

    October 23, 2006 at 5:27 pm

    Walaikum salaam

    That’s what I thought but wouldn’t that be a great time to reflect on the hajj? Just because we all can’t be there doesn’t mean that we can’t talk about it or share the hajj experience with our children. I do remember a party in NOLA where hajjis and hajjas talked about their experience. Maybe we can start doing that.

  3. Mona UmIbrahim said,

    October 27, 2006 at 12:46 pm

    It’s because people are tired and out of money from the Eid-al-Fitr parties that they had almost a year to plan. Eid al-Adha is only 2 months after Eid-al-Fitr which doesn’t give enough time for people to recover. It’s harder to plan things on short notice too. And there’s something about fasting a whole month that makes people want to plan/volunteer/give funds for Eid activities.

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