Even women in veil attend the prayers in special chambers. 2 Rakat Namaz is performed These prayers can be read anytime between sunrise and just afternoon. A person should give 3.5 lb of wheat or its flour per head, or 7lb of barley per head or their cost. Food grains or their cost are permitted to be donated. The amount to be gifted must be in excess of one’s essential needs and free from all encumbrances of debt. Even one who has not fast is expected to give alms. It is to be given to a needy person as thanksgiving. Charitable gift, called Sadaqah Fitr, is a dole to break the fast. This Eid-ul-Fitr alms are given to the poor on Eid-ul-Fitr.Ģ Rakat Namaz, the Eid-special prayer is performed in the morning in the mosque. Allah has intended a dole for every Muslim who is free and is in possession of alms worthy capital. Men wear white clothes because white symbolizes purity and austerity. In the morning everyone takes a bath, wears new or clean clothes, applies perfume, eats dates or some other sweet before walking to the mosque for Id prayers. Of the new moon in Shawwal, it marks the end of Ramadan. Certain Sunni Muslims believe that fitr comes from fitrat meaning ‘nature’ and Eid-ul-Fitr is the celebration of god’s magnanimity in providing nature to man.
Another connotation suggests that it is derived from fitrah or ‘alms’. ‘Fitr’ is derived from the word ‘fatar’ meaning ‘breaking’. The fast of Ramadan is broken with special prayers and festivities. Eid-ul-Fitr means the ‘festival of breaking the fast’.
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