Tuesday, November 1, 2011

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The Eid Moon and Chaand Raat

Eid Moon and Chaand Raat is a Muslim Festival, in order for you to celebrate this important Muslim Festival, you will need to understand its significance and how other Muslims celebrate it.

Chaand Raat is the eve of Eid Moon or the night of the sighting of the new moon. This is a festival that is celebrated in most Muslim countries. However, because the Islamic month is based on the first sighting of the lunar crescent, the month of Ramadan varies in either 29 or 30 days. Some Muslims in South Asia do not celebrate Eid Moon and Chaand Raat because of its relation to Eid ul-Fitr. They will however celebrate Eid ul-Fitr but not the Edi Moon or Chaand Raat.

Chaand Raat is the eve of the Muslim festival where most of Muslims believe that the new moon is commonly sighted in this night. This is a festive celebration where gift giving happens, people wear their best dresses and women even use mehndi to beautify themselves.

The streets are likewise decorated in a festive mood. Chaand Raat is comparable to Christmas or New Year. Muslim parents try hard to make Eid as exciting for the children like Christmas or other western festivities. This is to ensure that their children will not lose the excitement of celebrating Eid.

Young Muslims observe Christian children celebrating Christmas, this may lead to them loosing interest in Eid and thus their parent wants them to be excited with Eid thus gifts and new clothes are given to children during Eid.

Eid including Chaand Raat or the Eid Moon celebration is likewise a ritual for Muslims. The celebration involves festive food, festive dresses, gift giving and giving money to the poor.

Muslim women prepare for the Eid, including Eid Moon and Chaand Raat many days before this day by preparing their Eid dresses. They also plan their Mehndi tattoo to beautify themselves on this important Muslims Festival.

Eid on the following morning start by eating before you go to the mosque to recite the Takbeer and for Eid Khutba.

After a short khutba, Muslims will recite a prayer for forgiveness, mercy and help for the plight of Muslims all over the world. After this, Muslims will hug and greet one another saying "Taqabbal Allahu minna wa minjum" which if translated in English is "May Allah accept the fast and worship from us and from you".

Another greeting during the Eid is "Eid Mubarak," which means "Blessed Eid" or '*d sa '+d, which means "Happy Eid".

After hugging and greetings, Muslims will eat their festive food and when possible give money to the poor. Muslims also take Eid as the time to visit relatives and friends.

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