Eid Mubarak to everyone….

Eid Mubarak

 

Today is Eid!!!!

Eid mubarak everyone… truly this is a wonderful time. On this day there is a sense of indescribable serenity, peace and hope that I feel. I’m not at the mosque today so it actually feels all a little strange. Mum has had to go without me… what with my impending trip (in the next few days) coupled with the last few days I’ve taken off for being sick I just couldn’t not go to work… my thoughts, prayers, and my heart is there at the mosque though… sitting alongside my mother as the imam reads the takbir (special prayer/verses read only during this period)… sitting there and knowing what it all means. Praying the Eid prayers and listening to the sermon… the intricate poignancy has the masses silenced the reverie of prayer and deep thought for the world we live in today. Of what will become of us… not just ‘us Muslims’ but us humankind; the state of the world; the changes in society… the massacres… the desecration… all, ALL, all the sadness that is around us but that we may not be able to see because we’re here in Australia. The incessant, tumultuous situation in Palestine, the ‘picking up of pieces’ in Iraq, the silent prayers for the people of Afghanistan. The constant hunger of the children, the people of Africa. The unfairness & injustice of this image that is painted of Islam.

 Last year I sat there in the mosque and silently cried for these things… and one year later here I am yet again sitting in silent reverie saying a prayer for all the same things. Where we will in a world where technology is evolving so speedily and yet some things haven’t changed. The sadness that I am feeling… knowing what the prayer sounds like; being able to see in my minds eye the beauty, the purity in this day; looking past the people who come to the mosque solely to show off their wares and not even pray what is the point of coming there then? I truly do not and have never understood these people. The humility in praying for not for yourself, for your loved ones around you but for joining everyone in prayer for all the other things that somehow, for some reason we ‘forget’ during other times of the year for work , the bills, trying to find the right partner… whatever your reasons.