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Eid ul-Fitr 2009 – Eid Mubarak

Author Administrator on September 18th, 2009

Insha-Allah, Eid ul-Fitr will be celebrated on

Sunday, 20 September 2009

Eid ul-Fitr prayer will be held at 10:00am.

Praying facilities are always available for sisters.

On this happy occasion of Eid Makkah Masjid sends its greetings to the entire Muslim community with sincere wishes that Allah would enable us all to enjoy many more such occasions with increased faith, goodness and prosperity.

We pray that we continue worshipping Allah for the rest of the year as we hav done in the month of Ramadan and that we emply the qualities of God-consciousness, devotion, self-sacrifice, discipline, and unity that we have acquired in the month of Ramadan in our daily lives.

Sadqah Fitr
Sadqah Fitr is due before Eid Prayer . Our fasts remain unaccepted unless we pay this sadqa Fitr/ zakat-ul-Fitr

Eid-ul-fitr
Anas (may Allah be pleased with him), a companion of prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) reported that when the Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) migrated from Makkah to Madinah, the people of Madinah used to have two festivals. On those two days they had carnivals and festivity. Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) asked the Ansaar (the Muslims of Madinah) about it. They replied that before Islam they used to have carnivals on those two joyous days. The Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) told them: ‘Instead of those two days, Allah has appointed two other days which are better, the days of Eid-al-Fitr and Eid-al-Adha.’ (Hadith)

Eid-ul-fitr refers to the festival after completion of fasting in the month of Ramadan. This special occasion for Muslims and Muslims show appreciation and gratitude to Allah Almighty that He enabled them to seek His Mercy in the month of Ramadan and complete the obligatoin of fasting that he had imposed on them.
On the morning of Eid-ul-fitr, Muslims throughout the world perform Eid Prayers. A special prayer held to show gratitue to Allah. Below are various actions which are desirable on the day of Eid and some of them are the sunnah of our beloved Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) and therefore deserve the appropriate reward for performing them.
**Prepare for personal cleanliness, take care of details of clothing, etc.
**Take a Ghusl (bath) after Fajr.
**Dress up, putting on best clothes available, whether new or cleaned old ones.
**Wear perfurme
**Have breakfast on Eid-al-Fitr before leaving for prayer ground. On **Eid-al-Adha, eat breakfast after the Prayer or after sacrifice if you are doing a sacrifice.
**Pay Sadaqa Fitr before Eid Prayer (minimum amount is £2.50).
**Go to prayer place early.
**Offer Eid Prayer in congregation.
**Use two separate route to and from the prayer ground. Go from one street and to return through another.
**Show happiness and gratification.
**Give charity in abundance.
**Wish and congratulate one another after Eid prayers, by shaking hands and embracing each other.
**Recite the following Takbir on the way to Salaat and until the beginning of Salaat-al-Eid:
Allaho-Akber, Allaho-Akber. La ila-ha ill-lal-lah. Allaho-Akber, Allaho-Akber. Wa-lilahill hamd.

(Allah is great, Allah is great. There is no god but Allah. Allah is great, Allah is great. And all praises are for Allah).