Anonymous wrote:PP here, thank you O P for explaining this holiday...what do you normally do to celebrate as a family?

Well,unfortunately I am alone this year with no family around so I'm sitting here at work thinking about the holiday and daydreaming. However, if I were with family, we would celebrate by going to the mosque in the morning for the Eid prayer, getting new clothes and gifts for the kids and then have a nice meal with grilled lamb, have family and friends over( think Thanksgiving but instead of Turkey, Lamb )and do something fun in the evening. It is a day of visiting and well wishing,

Pictures : http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/14/eid-al-adha-2013-feast-of-sacrifice_n_4096669.html?ir=Religion

Not OP. I'm the one who wrote Fattah. It's a lamb dish. We make it for Eid, give presents, clothes, money to kids. Traditionally, you slaughter a lamb or goat and donate some of it to the needy. We don't kill things, and the neighbors might not like that too much anyway. So I involve my kids in some other charity project. This year they used some of their savings to purchase animals for others through Heifer International.

Fattah

http://www.dailynewsegypt.com/2012/10/24/egyptian-fattah-lamb-with-rice-bread-and-vinegar/

PP here, thank you O P for explaining this holiday...what do you normally do to celebrate as a family?

Anonymous wrote:sorry if this is a dumb question - What would be an appropriate thing (anything? nothing?) to say to a Muslim colleague today? We are longtime co-workers on friendly terms but I never know if or what I should say. Thanks.

You can just say Happy Eid

sorry if this is a dumb question - What would be an appropriate thing (anything? nothing?) to say to a Muslim colleague today? We are longtime co-workers on friendly terms but I never know if or what I should say. Thanks.

Fattah!!!!!!

Anonymous wrote:Eid Mubarak! I'm not with family today - first time in a long time!!!! At home, just dropped DS at daycare. Seeing family this weekend. Avoided bacon for breakfast

I am not with my family either and I am at work, no celebrations for me this year

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I thought Eid was in August??

It's different every year, because they follow the Lunar calendar.

OP here- There are Two Eids . Eid-al-Fitr marks the end of Ramadan and sees Muslims worldwide breaking their month-long fast. The date of Eid-al-Fitr is determined by a confirmed sighting of the new moon. It was held this year in August. Eid al-Adha began last night and runs for four days.

Anonymous wrote:Thank you for posting this OP! My favorite teacher at daycare is off today and the explanation was she had some sort of religious holiday she was celebrating. I don't talk religion with her but will do some research today so I can at least acknowledge her holiday when I see her tomorrow.

Hope you have a good day and celebrate in whatever way you can. ; )

Op here, you're welcome. Thank you for the wishes. During the celebration of Eid al-Adha, Muslims commemorate and remember Abraham's trials, by themselves slaughtering an animal such as a sheep, camel, or goat.The symbolism is in the attitude - a willingness to make sacrifices in our lives in order to stay on the Straight Path. It commemorates the willingness of Ibrahim to sacrifice his son Ishmael as an act of obedience to God. It also marks the end of Hajj, the annual pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia undertaken by about 1.5 million Muslims.

How is it celebrated?

Muslims across the world will sacrifice a sheep or a goat today as a "reminder of Ibrahim's obedience to Allah," Why a sheep? "Muslims believe that the very moment Ibrahim raised the knife, God told him to stop, that he had passed the test, and to replace Ishmael with a sacrificial ram," . The meat is shared among family, friends and the poor, who each get a third. In addition, Muslims often dress up in their best clothes and visit family and friends as well as offering presents

Anonymous wrote:I thought Eid was in August??

There are two Eids - Eid al Fitr, and Eid al Adha.

Eid al Fitr --> celebrates the end of Ramadan.

Eid al Edha --> honors Abraham's willingness to sacrifice his son Ishmael for God, who was then turned into a ram/goat/other animal (this is the one being commemorated today)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eid_al-Fitr

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eid_al-Adha

Eid Mubarak! I'm not with family today - first time in a long time!!!! At home, just dropped DS at daycare. Seeing family this weekend. Avoided bacon for breakfast

Anonymous wrote:I thought Eid was in August??

It's different every year, because they follow the Lunar calendar.

I thought Eid was in August??

Thank you for posting this OP! My favorite teacher at daycare is off today and the explanation was she had some sort of religious holiday she was celebrating. I don't talk religion with her but will do some research today so I can at least acknowledge her holiday when I see her tomorrow.

Hope you have a good day and celebrate in whatever way you can. ; )

Happy Eid al-Adha to all my fellow Muslims. What are you doing today? I am at work