How I celebrate my eid al-adha

Eid al-Adha is the latter of the two official holidays celebrated within Islam. It honours the willingness of Ibrahim to sacrifice his son Ishmael as an act of obedience to God's command. Before Abraham could sacrifice his son, however, God provided a lamb to sacrifice instead

I woke up to the sound and smell of mum cooking her special Ayam rendang tok (specially made for me, and took a bath. After Subuh prayer, I help her make sure the house is clean and the kuih raya are neatly arranged on the table. I also make sure all my siblings are up

My family put on our new dress and while some help my mum sets up the table. We celebrated Eid Adha this year not like other past years because cases of Covid-19 increased and cannot visit other people houses. The government encourage every Muslim to celebrate Eid Adha in their home to spread this pandemic.

 

My mom and I ate and ate and one of my brothers reminds us that we need to wait for my father and other brothers after prayed Eid Adha. So we need to stop eating, right now😂

Then the males go to the mosque for Solat Hari Raya (Eid Prayer) and takbir raya. The females can go to, but it was our family tradition that the womenfolk should stay at home. But in my family, I am the only girl who always goes to prayer every year in the mosque but I cannot pray because I got a period when I took a bath. I felt a little bit sad but it is okay

After the man came back, my mum and dad will sit on the sofa and we take turns to asked for their forgiveness from the oldest to the youngest. Most families will give duit Raya at this time to their children, but our family never did.

Then, we started video calls on google meets with my mom siblings. Some of my mum’s siblings with their families are already there on google meet. Then they start to recite Yassin and some dua. My mom asks me to present a video about Malek Family and show our memory together before Covid-19. Everyone in my family face looks missing each other and hope this pandemic willfully ending. After the end of the video call, my mom start crying and it touches my heart when I saw her tears, then I am trying to please her even though I felt what she felt when did not meet her family for 2 years.

                                        

We ate and ate and ate for the whole week. You really don’t want to offend these old people who had cooked so much and expected you to keep eating. I hate eid. I gained 3 kg in 4 days, imagine that. I am very lazy to exercise after that.

We only changed to a shirt and pants around 3 pm when it wasn’t usual for people to visit. There are still some who tried to stretch it of course, because do the ibadah qurban Last year, my parents were sick during eid so we didn’t go to some of our extended family houses and boy do they asked my mum if we were angry with them.

In short, I love eid because of all the delicious food, but this year is not the same as the other two past years, I have not meet a lot of people, trying to remember their names and who they are to us, I missed a lot to meet many people on Eid Adha and to do the qurban also being nice with others people, can help other people prepare food. I hope next year I can celebrate like 2 years past ago.