Zakatul Fitr, Sunnah of Eid Prayer Preparations, Eid Prayers, Structure of Eid Prayers.

A Reputed Scholar, Ex Advisor to Govt of India and Chief Engineer and A Religous Scholar Mr. Inamul Haq who worked on Quran al Hakeem and After Extensive study of Religion of Islam and Fiqa and Hadees of  Prophet Mohammed over a period of 9 years  wrote a very Popular Tafeer E Quran “Qurani Irshadats” in urdu is seen among the Thousands of Muslims for Preayers on Idd ul Fitr Day at Hyderabad. On 21st of Sept Monday 2009

 Eid ul Fitr and Zakat ul Fitr.  

 Anas (ra), a companion of prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) reported that when the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) migrated from Makkah to Madinah, the people of Madinah used to have two festivals. On those two days they had carnivals and festivity. Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) asked the Ansaar (the Muslims of Madinah) about it. They replied that before Islam they used to have carnivals on those two joyous days. The Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) told them: ‘Instead of those two days, Allah has appointed two other days which are better, the days of Eid-al-Fitr and Eid-al-Adha.’ (Hadith) 

is celebrated on the first day of Shaw’waal, at the completion of Ramadan. Shaw’waal is the 10th month of the Islamic calendar. The Eid-al-Fitr is a very joyous day; it is a true Thanksgiving Day for the believing men and women. On this day Muslims show their real joy for the health, strength and the opportunities of life, which Allah has given to them to fulfill their obligation of fasting and other good deeds during the blessed month of Ramadan.

 

 Sunnah of Eid Wake up early. Prepare for personal cleanliness,

take care of details of clothing, etc.Pray Fajr by Jamat, After Farj Prayers,  do Ziker and Wait for The time of Salatul Ishraq and after Ishraq PrayersAnd Pay Zakaat-al-Fitr before Salaat-al-Eid (on Eid-al-Fitr).

Go to prayer ground early.

Offer Salaat-al-Eid in congregation in an open place except when whether is not permitting like rain, snow, etc.

Use two separate route to and from the prayer ground.

Recite the following Takbir on the way to Salaat and until the beginning of

Salaat-al-Eid:

Allaho-Akber, Allaho-Akber. La ila-ha ill-lal-lah. Allaho-Akber, Allaho-Akber. Wa-lilahill hamd.How to offer Eid prayer:Who should go to the prayer ground & offer Eid Prayer:

Umm Atiyah (ra) reported: “The Messenger of Allah (saw) commanded us to bring out on Eid-al-Fitr and Eid-al-Adha, young women, hijab-observing adult women and the menstruating women. The menstruating women stayed out of actual Salaat but participated in good deeds and Duaa (supplication). I (Umm Atiyah) said to the Holy Prophet (saw): Oh! Messenger of Allah, one does not have an outer garment. He replied: Let her sister cover her with her garment.”
( Muslim )

On the Eid day, every believing man, woman and child must go to the prayer ground and participate in this joyous occasion.Structure of Eid prayer:
Eid prayer is wajib (strongly recommended, just short of obligatory). It consists of two Rakaat (units) with six or thirteen additional Takbirs. It must be offered in congregation. The prayer is followed by the Khutbah.

The Khutbah is part of the worship and listening to it is Sunnah. During the Khutbah, the Imam must remind the community about its responsibilities and obligations towards Allah, fellow Muslims and the fellow human beings.

The Imam must encourage the Muslims to do good and ward off evil. The Muslim community must also be directed to the state of the community and the Ummah at large and the feelings of sacrifice and Jihaad should be aroused in the community.

At the conclusion of the prayer the Muslims should convey greetings to each other, give reasonable gifts to the youngsters and visit each other at their homes.

Muslims should also take this opportunity to invite their non-Muslims neighbors, co-workers, classmates and business acquaintances to Eid festivities to expose them to Islam and Muslim culture.
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Ibn Abbass (ra) reported: ” I participated in the Eid-ul-Fitr prayer with the Messenger of Allah (saw), Abu Bakr (ra), Umar (ra) and Uthman (ra), and all of them held Eid prayer before Khutbah, and then the Prophet Muhammad (saw) delivered the Khutbah (sermon).” ( Muslim )

 
(Allah is great, Allah is great. There is no god but Allah. Allah is great, Allah is great. And all praises are for Allah).

 

 

Take a Ghusl (bath) after Fajr.

Brush your teeth.

 

Dress up, putting on best clothes available, whether new or cleaned old ones.

Use perfume (men only).

Have breakfast on Eid-al-Fitr before leaving for prayer ground. On Eid-al-Adha, eat breakfast after Salaat or after sacrifice if you are doing a sacrifice.

Muslims Celebrate Eid ul Fitr, with Traditional Glory, Around the World. India will Celebrate on Monday.

 

Muslims around the world woke up Sunday and welcomed the end of a long month of fasting with hearty greetings of “Eid Mubarak,” or happy festivities.

Egyptian women perform the Eid al-Fitr dawn prayer at a stadium in Mansura, 120 km north of Cairo.

 

 

 

 

 

Egyptian women perform the Eid al-Fitr dawn prayer at a stadium in Mansura, 120 km north of Cairo.

The faithful were ushering in Eid al-Fitr — three days of celebrations that Muslims mark with joyous community prayers, acts of charity, visits from far-flung relatives, gift-giving and elaborate feasts.

“Think Christmas, Thanksgiving, New Year’s — all rolled into one. It’s that huge for us,” said Sajjad Aziz of Hoboken, New Jersey.

Islam follows a lunar calendar, and the timing of Eid al-Fitr varies around the world depending on when the crescent of a new moon is sighted.

So, while most countries — including the United States — observed Eid on Sunday, some will begin their celebrations on Monday.

The night before Eid, entire communities gather on rooftops, scanning the sky with giddy anticipation.

“It only needs one sighting of the moon in the whole country, and the whole nation erupts in cheers,” said Qazi Arif, 35, of Sirajgong, Bangladesh. “It’s a divine feeling, hard to describe.”

Eid al-Fitr bids goodbye to Ramadan — a month of dawn-to-dusk abstinence from food, drinks and other sensual pleasures. Muslims believe the Quran, the religion’s holy book, was revealed to Prophet Muhammad during Ramadan more than 1,400 years ago.

The Eid is one of two major holidays in Islam, alongside another called Eid al-Adha. The latter commemorates the prophet Abraham’s willingness to sacrifice his son, Isaac, for God.

On the morning of Eid, Muslims don new clothes and head to prayers that are often held in open fields to accommodate crowds too big to contain in mosques.

Those who can afford it donate a small percentage of their possession or its equivalent to the poor and needy so they too can avail themselves for the celebrations. Feasts await at every house.

“It’s a festival principally about community. We’re even asked to take a different route when we walk back from prayers so that we can meet different sets of people to greet and celebrate with,” said Wasim Iqbal of Karachi, Pakistan.

For Muslims in North America — and countries where they are the minority — Eid is a more subdued affair.

“If you have family close by, then you can kind of capture the mood that you remember from back home,” said Abdallah Gamal, a native of Egypt who lives in St. Louis, Missouri. “But it’s not the same.”

Because the U.S. Census does not ask about religious affiliation, it is difficult to gauge the Muslim population in the United States. The Pew Muslim American study conducted two years ago estimated it at 2.5 million, while the Council on American-Islamic Relations places it as high as 6 million.

On Saturday, both President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton offered greetings to American Muslims.

“We know there is more than unites peoples of faith than divides us,” Clinton said. “So as Ramadan draws to a close, let us hold on to that spirit of community throughout the year to achieve our common goals of peace, prosperity and stability.”

It is a message that Afghanistan’s president, Hamid Karzai, also shared during Eid prayers when he called on the Taliban to join the peace process in his war-weary country.

The day wasn’t one of universal comity, however.

In Yemen, the government and rebels accused each other Saturday of breaking a cease-fire they both asked for to commemorate Eid.

And Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei used his Eid sermon to launch another volley at the country’s arch-rival Israel and at Western powers.

“We’re not quite there, I’ll will admit,” said Mehreen Ali of Boston, Massachusetts. “But have you seen an Eid prayer? Rows and rows of Muslims all prostrating together in unison. It’s a feeling of such unity and brotherhood. You have to believe that with that spirit present, anything is possible.”

Muslims around the world woke up Sunday and welcomed the end of a long month of fasting with hearty greetings of “Eid Mubarak,” or happy festivities.

In india the Prime Minister of India in his message to the Nation and to the Muslims said.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Sunday greeted the nation on the eve of Eid-ul-Fitr, saying the festival reflected the true spirit of India’s composite culture.

 Eid-ul-Fitr, to be celebrated on Monday, marks the end of the period of fasting during the holy month of Ramzan. Eid is celebrated on the first day of the Islamic month of Shawwal.

 “The festival commemorates austerity, brotherhood and the spirit of sharing. It reflects the true spirit of our composite culture. May the festival strengthen our resolve to promote tolerance and peace and live in harmony,” prime minister said.

 

 

 

 

King Abdullah’s Message on Eid Ul Fitr, to the Muslims of the World, and OIC Chief‘s Call for a Palestine State with Jeruselem as its Capital.

Costodian of two Holy Mosques in Makkah and Madina urged Muslims in his message on Idd ul Fitr, to treat the less fortunate with a spirit of compassion and solidarity

Message of King Abdullah to Muslims on Eid ul Fitr.Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah on Saturday congratulated Muslims all over the world on the occasion of Eid Al-Fitrand urged them to treat the less fortunate with a spirit of compassion and solidarity.”Let your Eid be a celebration of love and compassion,” King Abdullah and Crown Prince Sultan said in a joint message to the nation.”Let us spread happiness … and let us spread hope wherever we go and let us make this Eid a great opportunity to enliven the spirit of compassion and cooperation,” the message said.Thanks giving to Allah Subhanawatala King Abdullah and Prince Sultan thanked God for bestowing His blessings on the Kingdom and its people. “Islam is the greatest blessing of God and Eid that comes after the holy month of Ramadan is one of its features,” the message read. The king and the crown prince urged Muslims in the Kingdom and elsewhere in the world to compete with one another in charitable activities in order to remove and lessen the pain of others. The OIC Secretary General Extends All Out Support to Palestinians to Establish Independent State with Jerusalem as its Capital. In a related development, Professor Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, secretary-general of the 57-member Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC), extended his congratulations to Muslims all over the world on the occasion. “Eid is a harbinger of goodness and hope,” he said while urging Muslims to stand united in order to defend their religion and respective cultures. The OIC chief urged all member countries to extend their all-out support to the Palestinians to establish an independent state with Jerusalem as its capital. He emphasized the need to protect the Arab and Islamic identity of Jerusalem and prevent the move to “Judaize” the city. Channel for Children “Ajyal” Launched in Saudi Arabia. Also, the culture and information minister said a new Saudi television channel for children named “Ajyal” would be launched today, on the first day of Eid. “It’s our duty to present good programs for our children in order to improve their levels of thinking and enhance their various capabilities,” the minister told officials in charge of the channel.

Some may Try to Politicize the Kalavati Issue, But Rahul Emerged, as Prince of Farmers in Need. (Rahul Eyes 2014, series, article no. 2)

  

"Serious Problem in India is our Energy Security, Poverty is Directly Connectd to Energy Security" This is what Rahul Said in Parliament on Neuclear Debate last in last term. And he used the real example of Kalavati Parshuram of Vidharbh in Maharastra to support his point.

Some, Blame  Kalavati, for Ditching Congress. The truth is.

Media and Political Circles may call it ditch of Kalwati to Congress. But Rahul was representing not a congress worker in Parliament when he was raising the plight of a women who lost her husband a farmer in a suicide in a Worst effected district Yavatmal in Vidharba in Maharstra.

The move of Kalvati Behind to contest as a candidate to air the plight of the suffering farmers in the region, by Tiwari, of Vidharb Jana Andolan Samiti.

is a good move to help the cause of the farmers, she has the free will of her own and Rahul’s help was not conditional or for political gains.

How Important it is to have power to secure the hard work of our farmers in fields.

 

Rahul Gandhi wished to express to the nation in his speech in Nuclear Debate in the Parliament in last Term, which Congress won, the need for energy in our Nation to support the Farmers, our Agricultural Machinery, providing them sufficient power, save the farmers for the difficulty of loss of crop due to non availability of power to lift ground water for there crops. The area effected due to below average rainfall.

 

Rahul voiced agony and a helpless of Kalvati who lost her husband Parshuram who, committed suicide after his crops failed in 2005.

 

Leaving a large family of nine children to support and tilt 9 acres of Dry land.

Kalavati’s husband Parshuram committed suicide after his crops failed in 2005. She continued to till her nine- acre land valiantly for three years until Rahul Gandhi paid a visit to her village Jalka last year.

Gandhi in order to support her immediately requested and redeemed her. A Rs 30-lakh fixed deposit was instituted in her name.

“I get Rs 25,000 every month as he had promised,” she said.

Rahul had also promised her a home and hostel accommodation for her children. That didn’t happen. As quickly as the fixed deposit. That will happen too.

Kalvati Concern for her fellow Farmers Comes from the confidence Rahul has given her in her self and the system she lives in she has a hope for her fellow farmers today.

 

The 50-year-old widow, who supports seven daughters and two sons, will contest from Wani constituency in Yavatmal district.

She is backed by the Vidarbha Jan Andolan Samiti, a local group fighting for the cause of farmers.

“I have no complaints against Rahul Gandhi or the Congress. If some assurances have not been met, it is because of the people in between, not him.”

Asked if she would have contested on a Congress ticket, she tactfully said the party was not the point.

“What is important is to take up the cause of farmers. They are in distress and suicides have not come down,” she says.

Yavatmal is the worst affected district in Vidarbha, with 36 farmers committing suicide here this August alone.

 We need to understand that Rahul Gandhi or the Congress did not do this to make it advantage congress.

I don’t think it was difficult to convince her to join Congress I am sure she would have loved to join and serve the party and the needs and issues faced by the farmers of the area.

This is very positive sign, Rahul did  so much to help a Indian Family in need  and NOT as a political move to promote vote bank politics, or make Kalvati join Congess Party and fight Election for Congress.

This liberty of choice and the free will of Kalavati will go long way in impressing upon the people in Vidhrab, Maharastra and India. The fresh air of political wisdom and service to the people image of Rahul and Congress party.

Rahul Gandhi will be Happy and Satisfied for Doing his bit in helping a Farmer Family

I am sure Rahul Gandhi will be very happy to know that Kalvati who was a suffer once is able to raise her voice for her fellow farmers. She is supported with 30 lakh fixed deposit by the govt. on the request of Rahul and now she is voice for many. This is called change. The Farmers can only thank this Prince of the people in need who is there go lend a helping hand when needed.

The Flip side of the Story.

Will all the Farmers who suffer the brunt of nature, and lack of Power will get the similar support like kalavati got from Rahul and his Party, This can be explained by saying we need to develop our energy situation in Country. So that there will not be many Kalavati’s.