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Salaam and Eid Mubarak! Which ever day you’ve chosen! Once again the world is plunged in to confusion regarding when to do Eid. Let’s not get too hung up on the negative and focus on the positive as there are many more issues to fix in the world which have greater importance.

On a lighter note, here is an “Eid take” on a classic email that get floated around. Feel free to add your 2 cents worth in the comments.

You know it’s Eid when…

• Your more senior relatives call “back home” for an Eid chit chat which ends up lasting the whole day and costing more than the price of a flight home.
• You’ve gone to a friend or relative’s house to wish them Eid Mubarak and they are actually at your house looking for you.
• Your kids go to school and tell their teacher that after a Month of Fasting in Ramadhan it is the “Day of Eat” and you tell them it’s actually “Eat Al Fritters”.
• You get to the Mosque late for the first Eid Salaat and miss the beginning of the Kuthba and have to get the next Jamaat. Dohh! (Eid Salaat has the Kuthba at the start and prayer at the end).
• You sleep in and forget to set your alarm and have to go to the last (graveyard) Jamaat at 11am, Double Dohh!
• The person next to you in Eid Salat has put too much Itar (perfume) on.
• You forget to iron you Eid clothes the night before the early start.
• You get 1001 SMS text messages of Eid Mubarak (some which are well crafted and obviously copied from somewhere).
• Your Shalwar doesn’t have a “izar-bund” and you have to use elastic (one for the Pakistani’s).
• You wake up for the time of Sahoor by accident and go back to bed (until fajr hopefully).
• You forget the format of Eid Salaat and watch the person next to you (2 Rakats, 6 Takbeers).
• You eat way too much for lunch and end up needing a nap in the afternoon.
• You forget to give Fitrana before your Eid Salat.
• There are no more Taraweeh Prayers (obvious).
• You have to carry a lot of £5/$5 notes to give “hard cash” by younger relatives.
• You get force-fed food from “big round” cheek pinching Aunties.
• Muslims never decide to do Eid on the same day (I have a dream..).
• Someone in some remote Muslim country decides they have seen the moon even though it’s not technically possible.
• Your mum cooks too much food thinking that you have the same size stomach as before Ramadhan (be warned, don’t waste food as you’ve just fasted for 30ish days).
• Although it’s Eid someone it still fasting.
• Some Muslim youth decide to embarress the Muslim community by driving up and down major high streets hanging out of car windows and playing loud music (this is not the way to celebrate Eid).
• The Baklava/Jalaibees and are in full flow.

Eid Mubarak!