Festivals in India- Id-Ul-Fitr

Id-Ul-Fitr is prominently known to be the festival celebrated to break the fast.

This festival is celebrated at the Ramzan end so that the Muslim fasting month comes to a closure.

This is a festival for feasting as well as rejoicing. Fitr means breaking as well as the other meaning represents alms.

On this festive day in India special delicacies and foods are prepared as well as distributed to the friends and neighbors.

On this day friends, relatives and other devotees gather in the mosques and exchange greetings. Their prayers and family get-togethers are the significant highlights of this festival.

Id-Ul-Fitr is one of the important occasions and is celebrated only by the Muslim community throughout the world. They celebrate this festival with great joviality and devotion.

This festival signifies the end of the fasting month called as Ramadan and the indication of the new month is appreciated. On this festive occasion the Muslim devotees end their fast with merriment and special prayers.

This is an auspicious occasion and lots of delicacies and foods are prepared as well as distributed to friends and neighbors. This festival is devoted and is celebrated to share the spirit of love, brotherhood and peace.

Id-Ul-Fitr is a special day for the Muslim community and the entire religion. This day is the first day of sighting the moon. After the long fasting month special prayers are offered to the almighty.

The Muslim community celebrates this festival with great devotion. The Muslims get adorned in new clothes, smear perfume and the women decorate their hands with henna and wear jewelry to show the enthusiasm of celebrating the festival.

They gather n the mosque and offer special prayers and ultimately greet each other by embracing on as Eid. Dishes such as sweetened milk using vermicelli is prepared and given to relatives and friends. Muslims also distribute gifts such as food, cash or clothes to needy people.

Id-ul-fitr comes at the end of the pious month of the Islamic calendar. The prophet Muhammad put the Allah’s words about the Ramzan month and wrote it in the holy Quran.

This is followed until now and the last day of Ramzan is celebrated as the Id as it strengthens the bond of brotherhood. The fasting is observed strictly such that right from the sunrise in the morning they do not take any food until the sun set. They do not drink water or even swallow saliva. They do it with sincerity and lots of devotion.