The holiday of Uraza Bayram is considered one of the most important holidays of Muslims. Often you can find other names - the feast of breaking up and Eid al-Fitr. The first three days of the month Shavval - exactly the time when all the faithful Muslims celebrate this holiday. There is no specific number when Muslims celebrate Uraza Bayram, this date is floating. The holiday symbolizes the end of fasting during the month of Ramadan . This post - the most serious among Muslims - can only be consumed by food and water after the sun has disappeared beyond the horizon.
How do Muslims celebrate Uraza Bayram?
There are many features related to how to celebrate Uraza Bayram, this holiday has its own traditions and customs. In a large number of Muslim countries, the holiday days are days off, and people are not allowed to work. Having met another Muslim on the street, you need to tell him the words of congratulations "Id mubarak!". These words symbolize joy and sorrow in the hearts of people. Muslims rejoice that such a holiday has come and is sad at the same time, as the days of blessing are over. This greeting means an expression of hope for the coming of Ramadan next year.
Faithful people should wear festive clothes and visit the mosque in order to pray with the same religious people. Only on Uraz Bayram is read a special prayer - id-namaz.
Id-namaz is really a kind of prayer, if only because it begins at dawn, and ends only at lunch. If a person could not visit the mosque, he himself can pray, and if everything is done correctly, such a prayer will be considered a full-fledged replacement of the prayer in the mosque. The prayer can be postponed until the sun rises above the standing bayonet (the Prophet Muhammad did so). Muslims usually engage in charity and give alms these days (before namaz).
After the prayer it is allowed to begin a festive dinner. It is customary to go to visit each other and visit their parents. Muslims usually give gifts to each other. Children are usually given sweets. Usually, believers ask forgiveness and go to the cemeteries to the deceased relatives, there it is necessary to read surahs and pray for them.
In Islam there are only two holidays that take place every year. Uraza-Bayram is one of them. The festival ends with a big ibadat (worship of Allah). The importance of the holiday is that it not only marks the end of the fasting in the month of Ramadan, but also the purification of man, because he had to abstain for long from eating, drinking, intimacy and foul language. And if so, after the holiday Muslims do even more good deeds, they become different people if they observe the fast.
In some of the republics of Russia, where Islam is widespread (including in the Crimea ), Uraza Bayram is declared a day off. A huge number of people visit Moscow's mosque mosque.
July 5 in 2016 - the date when Muslims began to celebrate Uraza Bayram. In Moscow almost 200 took part in the celebrations
Some draw a parallel between Uraza Bayram and Easter, because the Christians of Easter also have a feast of breaking, symbolizing the way out of fasting. There are many similarities, but each of these holidays has traditions that are unique to them.