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The day most awaited
Maliha Ahmed
I was staring at the food in front of me as though it was the most exquisite, most luscious and most delicious thing on earth. It also most definitely did exacerbate my hunger as I started to get impatient at the seemingly durable fast. Simultaneously I kept my ears wide open for any sound of the siren while also raring to get started with Iftaar. At last I heard Magreeb's Azaan and the first gulp of my orange juice felt like the most inexplicably relaxed and elated feeling.
A familiar sensation is felt by the Muslims in this holy month of Ramadan. Waking up by overcoming all the reluctance that our body provides at the very early hour of the morning for having Seheri, fasting all through the day and last but not the least, sitting down for Iftaar with an empty stomach but a determined mind to eat every thing that can be reached! It's a month when our working hour, eating hour, studying hour, all in all, our entire daily routine to which we are most habitual is completely changed. Shopping centers, especially the centrally air-conditioned ones, attain themselves an abundant amount of shoppers'. Children are inundated with awe at the lucrative stock of clothes, shoes, jewelleries that they have never come across with in their blithe infancy and that probably is why they force their parents' to buy them everything they want with unswerving stubbornness. The generic idea is to get everything that is pre-eminent when compared to anyone else. It costs one to shout at the top of their voices to bargain to lower the ascended prices. We fast for nearly 30 days, we shop until late nights, we basically do everything that are never done during a normal month and all of it for our big day, the Eid day. Every religion has its own individual and unique occasion to celebrate annually, but none of them except Islam have an entire month to fast and anticipate for the upcoming event and that is what makes Eid most special.
It's a day when we wear new clothes, new shoes and wait until the guys' return from the mosque and have some snacks with them. It's a day when mothers' pull out all the stops while making the most excellent food which comprises of the traditional shemai, additional kabaabs, rolls, samosas, treacle tart and all sort of sweets. It's a day when everybody forgets every bit of hatred and hugs others with open arms. It's a day when younger give salaam or touch elder's feet and stretch out their innocent hands for money. It's a day when we meet all our relatives and share the joy of Eid with them. It's Eid which is most imminent and it's me wishing all the readers' 'Eid Mubarak'.
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