Skip to main content

US Muslims Use Creativity to Celebrate Special `Eid

As Muslims prepare to conclude the holy fasting month of Ramadan, they anticipate a different `Eid like no other due to COVID-19 pandemic.

In a bid to make this `Eid special for her kids, Lubna Dadabhoy of Chino, Southern California, found ways to keep up the festive spirit.

📚 Read Also: All About Eid Al-Fitr 1441 (Special Collection)

She felt bad when she heard a friend’s child say: “This is going to be the worst `Eid ever.”

“I was just so sad to hear children being disheartened because it wasn’t going to be a usual celebration this year,” Dadabhoy told The Orange County Register.

  • (Photo by Cindy Yamanaka, The Press-Enterprise/SCNG)
  • Lubna Dadabhoy secures an Eid Balloon Column (Photo by Cindy Yamanaka, The Press-Enterprise/SCNG)
  • (Photo by Cindy Yamanaka, The Press-Enterprise/SCNG)
  • Anana Siddiqi with her daughters Sidra, 11, and Asma, 1. (Photo by Mindy Schauer, Orange County Register/SCNG)
  • (Photo by Mindy Schauer, Orange County Register/SCNG)
  • (Photo by Mindy Schauer, Orange County Register/SCNG)
  • (Photo by Mindy Schauer, Orange County Register/SCNG)
  • (Photo by Cindy Yamanaka, The Press-Enterprise/SCNG)
  • (Photo by Cindy Yamanaka, The Press-Enterprise/SCNG)

So, she posted special items families can make together during the holidays on her YouTube Ramadan Craft Channel. She said she thought of crafts families can make with things they have at home.

“It’s just things people can make with markers, paper, and balloons,” she said. “That was important especially this year, when you can’t just go to the store and when people are trying to save money.”

“A lot of people are just trying to do things this year that will keep the spirit alive,” she said. “With `Eid coming up, it’s the perfect reminder to celebrate, to be joyful. It improves your mood when you keep creating something positive.”

Car Parade

The three-day `Eid Al-Fitr festival is one of the two main religious celebrations in Islam, together with `Eid Al-Adha.

To celebrate the feast, several mosques around the States are also organizing drive-through parades through their parking lots in the morning.

The Islamic Center of Irvine will host a drive-thru `Eid celebration with doughnuts from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Sunday, said President Sadaf Agha.

The Islamic Community Center of Redlands also is asking community members to drive around the mosque “as a show of unity and togetherness.”

On Saturday, May 23, the mosque will hand out toys to children, also in a drive-through, to mark the end of Ramadan and to celebrate `Eid.

In Orlando, `Eid Orlando Facebook page announced they would be hosting a car decorating contest during the Car Parade.

The post US Muslims Use Creativity to Celebrate Special `Eid appeared first on About Islam.



source https://aboutislam.net/muslim-issues/n-america/us-muslims-use-creativity-to-celebrate-special-eid/
Labels:

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

List of Times and Places Where Dua is Accepted

A short reminder regarding the recommended times of dua . And I think what you need to know here is that the recommended times of dua or recommended things that can cause your dua to be accepted, can be divided into two sort of large groups: Am I Good Enough to Make Dua for Myself? Situations where your dua is accepted. Times where your dua is accepted So I’m going to very briefly mention them one after the other as much as possible. As for situations where your dua has been accepted: – The person who has been wronged or oppressed . – A person who finds themselves in severe difficulty after a calamity has struck. – The person who is traveling. – Someone who is fasting. – The one who is reciting the Quran or has just recited the Quran – Someone who is performing Hajj or Umrah or jihad. – The one who is making dua for someone in their absence . Because we know that when you make dua for someone in his absence an angel says: “ Ameen and to you”. – A person...
Post a Comment
Read More »

Ghuraba (The Strangers): Nasheed with English Subtitles

Islam began as something strange, and it shall return to being something strange, so give glad tidings the strangers. (Sahih Muslim 145) This famous nasheed has many versions; this one is from Muhammad al-Salman and has the subtitles in English embedded. [We are] strangers and we do not bow the foreheads to anyone besides Allah  […] Transliteration to help in the pronounciation:  Ghurabaa’ wa li ghairillaahi laa nahnil jibaa Aisha Stacey  wrote in an article for Aboutislam.net : “I think that many of you would agree that being Muslim in the 21st century makes you well acquainted with being strange. It might even be a metaphor for random, as in you have been randomly selected. […] many converts to Islam will tell you about feeling as if they were strangers, before finding Islam. They will speak of feeling that they belonged somewhere else that their lives were just slightly off center. They often speak about a vague sense of knowing they were not like everyone else...
Post a Comment
Read More »

Taqwa – Living the Main Purpose of Ramadan

Taqwa is a major purpose for the month of Ramadan. The people of taqwa are those who do the things that they are commanded and avoid the things which Allah has made prohibitive. And evidently, to reach a state of taqwa requires vigilance, it requires patience and sincerity. The verse is pertaining to fasting I found in a single set of verses in chapter 2 starting at verse 183: O you who have believed, decreed upon you is fasting as it was decreed upon those before you that you may become righteous. ( 2:183 ) A Collective Act of Worship Allah is telling us that fasting has been made obligatory and then Allah tells us that just as it was prescribed for those before us. We often get asked this question in Ramadan, “how’s the fast going for us?” And if we gave ourselves a moment to think about it, we see that Allah Most High has made the fast inside the month of Ramadan easy for us because we know that there is a collective spirit to fasting; we know that we’re not alone in this ...
Post a Comment
Read More »