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Is your Eid-ul-Adha shopping complete yet?

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Eid is one of the most important and holiest events of Islam.  Eid -ul-Adha, in particular, is known as the ‘BARI’ or bigger  Eid  of the two  Eid s, which makes it even holier. It is also known as the “festival of sacrifice”, honoring the sacrifice of Hazrat Ibrahim as an act of love and unconditional devotion towards Allah. On this holy event, Muslims sacrifice animals – usually goats, sheep, cows and camels and distribute that meat among family members, relatives, neighbors, and friends and also donate it to the poor. Everyone comes together for feasts and get-togethers and celebrate the event with joy. Families start preparing for this one event weeks and months before. Women go out to shop for garments, shoes, makeup, and jewelry excitedly and men are busy visiting ‘MANDI’ to purchase the best and healthiest animal for the sacrifice. There are a lot of things required when it comes to  Eid  preparation and what can be better than the fac...

After effects of long weekend!!

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Alas! The bless month has passed, and trust me when I say that Ramadan has ended way too quickly, feels like there was a lot to do, a lot to offer, a lot to ask, but nothing happens, as we all were so busy in working and home stuff that we couldn’t properly manage the time for prayers. Ramadan is not about cooking or doing kinds of stuff, its all about the prayers we do, the forgiveness that we all asks… but no matter how or what we do, Ramzan always gives us soft and healthy feels, and when we don’t fully fill or do properly, like miss some prayers or don’t read Quran, then we all feel bit complicated, personally, I regret, not fulfilling the Ramzan core. Eid and Eid holidays, Didn’t you all feel that everything is finishing way too quickly? Like time passing rapidly, the world is just running so fast that even when you sleep you are missing on a lot…?? I personally feel that even when I sleep, I am losing everything. Although because of summers, I was like when would th...