Technically the word Eid el-Fitr refers to the festival, which marks the end of the month-long fasting of the month of Ramadan. It is a celebration of the completion of the training in the “school of Ramadan” where Muslims “attended courses” in patience, perseverance, honesty and the consciousness of the Almighty.

The Eid el-Fitr is the occasion on which Muslims are expected to bask in uncommon happiness particularly for their ability to connect with the Almighty and especially at a time when profanity and bestiality have become fashionable. Rejoice, therefore, dear brother, if you succeeded in re-establishing your links with your Creator.

Celebrate, dear Sister! if Ramadan worked for you and imbued you with the spiritual weapons without which life on this earth would be an extension of hell. Muslims should be happy that thanks to Ramadan under no circumstance shall they allow earthly principalities to pollute their souls; never again shall we allow our prosperity to demean our spirituality; never again shall our temporary adversity purblind us to the greater value in walking with the Almighty in the wilderness of this terrestrial life.

However, it is important for us to note that our “graduation” from the “School” of Ramadan is like our arrival to a station which is, in itself, the beginning of another journey. In other words, the whole essence of life and living for the conscious Muslim is all about arrival and departure; we arrive from a religious duty in order to depart for another one.

The onset of the Id al-Fitr, like it is for Id al-Adha, implies the undertaking of series of religious duties. Muslim festivals do therefore not end in themselves but mean to a more hallowed spiritual-social ends. Each time Muslims prostrate in obeisance to the Almighty, they are expected to rise in order that they might rescue humanity from the multiplexity of maladies confronting the latter.