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Eid ul Adha 1431

Samreen Saleemudeen, 8 years

My Bakr Eid was too much fun! I went to Sky walk and I played with balls. All the children were pushing me, jumping from up to down. And then I played nice nice games like putting balls and collecting them. I collected tickets and I got a gift. Its a little box and inside there is a sharpener and eraser. And pencil. And then I ate yummy yummy mutton food at Zaitoon. I ate many things. And I ate ice cream at Zaitoon. And then we bought a bread like dish. I didn't like it. Then we went home and slept.

Abdurrahman Jamal, 6 years

We had Bakr Eid some days back. We saw that all three goats had been sacrificed and Junaid and Shoaib didn't know that their father had cut all three. So he told me that Shoaib and Junaid had sacrificed one and he sacrificed the two others. 
This time we had a very tough goat. It was an angry goat.  It kept butting and butting and butting to get out until its horn were red, red. We saw four men sacrificing the goat. And Atta (father) was also doing it. After it was sacrificed it was put in the rice maker. The biryani swirled and swirled and swirled until it was fully biryani. But there was also chicken. We put it in the cooker. The cooker swirled chicken much more than the biryani. Then it was out. And ready to eat! We ate both the biryani and the meat.
Assalamu Alaykum

Inaya Mansoor, 7 years

Last night I was getting ready for Eid and my mother from morning was looking for dress.  I got a light blue colour dress with cute designs. My mother told me to go get something. I went to my uncle's room. My uncle was removing something from his cupboard. I saw the gift that my chachi's uncle had sent for me for memorizing one juz. My mother found some cute movie called "Chalky". I was watching it with my father. And my mother was saying "Come on and sleep! You are not going to get up tomorrow!" Then I said "One minute, one minute". I saw, saw, saw! Then my father put it off. Then I couldn't sleep. Then I took my story book but I didn't even open the page and I fell asleep.
Next morning "Get up Inaya! Get up!" I was so happy. Then I was getting ready. I did my salah. I didn't even drink milk. My father was calling the watchman. I was putting my shoes. Suddently it started raining "Tup Tup Tup! We went to Preston for Salah. We reached very early. We waited for one and a half hours for salah. My cousin Afeefa came during the salah towards me. There was another child there. She kept crying.  Then she pushed me, pushed me till the salah was over. My salah was not good. Then we went to a hotel and we ate. I ate idli, idyapam and dosa. I left half a dosa.  We all drank Sprite. After the hotel we went to my grandmother's college. We sat and sat and sat till my mother brought the car. For lunch we had Biryani. My grandma's made it very fast. We all ate it. At night we went to my friend Tawfeeq's house. I gave him a gift. My aunt sent Biryani for dinner. When  I ate biryani I was thinking tomorrow will be school. I asked my mother to give me biryani for school. I slept very late.
 "Women Praying" Alyina Ibsan, 13 years

Mujahid ul Islam 11 years

Eid is the festival of Muslims. I celebrated Eid on 17th November. My parents and I woke up and we wore our new clothes. We went to the mosque to pray. After we finished the Eid salah we went to our family friend's house. There I saw goats being sacrificed by a man. Then we ate the lunch. We ate rice with mutton and chicken gravy. We prayed Zuhr salah. And I played with my friends.

Aathif 4 years

I put on new dress, then I go to the Bakri Eid. Then I go to ice cream shop. Father cut animal at the beach. I went there. Mother and brother also went. I saw camels there. I come to home and eat Maggi.

Ayshah Maseerah, 4 years

I take bath, put clothes. Then play. I did salah with Mommy. Then I go down and see cutting goat. I fall down in the sand. Then I went to Ur and put on Eid dress. Then I ate puri and salan. My friends came down and up and they eat and go. I said Eid Mubarak to my friends and I gave 100 chocolates and 100 ice creams to my friends. I go to beach and eat ice cream.
  "Kabah", Samreen Saleemudeen, 8 years

Alyina Ibsan, 13 years

I woke up late in the morning because I was not feeling well. I took my bath and did my prayers with my sister. I said Eid Mubarak to all my cousins, aunts and uncles. I shook their hands and said "Taqabalallahu minna wa minkum". My father was sacrificing the goats. Everybody wanted to sacrifice their own goats, but then the knife was too heavy for them. My father bought so many goats for each one of us. I don't like to see the goat sacrifice because I take pity on them. But I like to touch the meat and play with it - squash squash!. I don't care about the blood. My cousin and I play together. We have a lot of fun putting the meat in the packets and giving it to everybody - my uncles, aunts and all other relatives. My mother was really happy with me because I helped her put meat inside the packets. We have a special meat for poor people. Before the day of Eid, we give them tickets to come inside our house. When they come they give the ticket and then we give the meat. It takes over 300 people.

For a while I slept because I wasn't feeling well. I didn't go to my grandma's house. My mother had a lot of work. We ate nice biryani continuously for three days. We visited grandma's house on the second day of Eid. Even there we ate nice biryani.I ate a lot of sweetmeats. My mother told me to stop eating chocolates. On the third day in my house there was biryani again. I got fed up of biryani. We had a nice Eid, Alhamdulillah!

Fathima Zaina 4 years (Trans. from Tamil)

I took bath and wore new clothes. I went to mosque with father, uncle, aunt and grandmother. Mother and baby did not come. Then I ate ice cream. Father sacrificed goat and mother cooked Biryani. I changed my dress and slept. Went to beach in the evening and collected shells. I was very happy.

 "Kabah" Eman Shaw, 11 years

A.T. Fuaad, 10 years

On the day before Eid, I woke up at 5o clock. I went with my brother to pray Fajr salah. Then we came back. Then we slept. Then we woke up at 10o clock. Then we got ready and left for Adiramapathnam. That time we were fasting. Then we stopped at Trichy and we went to my fathers's friend's house. My father's friend bought KFC chicken and juice. Then we went and stopped at Thanjavur and we opened the fast on the road. Then we went to Adiramapathnam to my mother's house. Next day was Eid.
I woke up at 7oclock. Then I bathed. I wore my new dress - jeans and shirt. Then I went to my father's house. They all gace money. Then I went with my father to pray Eid salah to the masjid. One old man told to say "AllahuAkbar" on the mike. We prayed Eid salah. Then we came back from the masjid. Then I went to my mother's house. Then they all also gave money. Then my friends and I had a party at a hotel. We all put money together like Rs 50 or Rs 100 and we bought kabab and chicken. We cut 7 goats in my father's house. I touched a goat's heart - it felt soft. I saw a goat's brain and I felt the tongue. It felt like rubber. We put the mutton in bags. Then we sent it to other people by auto. We ate "purche" roti, curry kolumb, kadalpasi vatlapong.

Iman Shaw, 11 years

I woke up in the morning and took a bath. I ate breakfast and I went to my grandma's house. And I prayed Eid salah and my dad led it. I was talking to everybody and got a little bit of Eid money. After that I went to my materal grandma's house. We stayed there for one hour. We bought three goats. They were in my grandma's house. We touched the goats. We then went back home. And Rayhaan, my 3 year old nephew, threw out a glass of milk out of the window and the glass too. After some time, wy sister and I went back to my grandma's house and watched the goats being sacrificed. I felt very quesy. After that my mom came and we told her she missed the sacrifice. Then we went back home and they sent the meat. We saw the intestines - they looked like spagetthi. After that we also saw the heart and the lungs and the trachea. It looked very long. My sister felt quesy too. Afte that we ate camel meat. It was very rough and stringy. We also ate sauted steak and lamb chops.

Azeem 6.5 years (Trans. from Urdu)

I wore Eide clothes. Went to mosque and prayed. My father cut the goat in Mamu's shed and made dua. Then our mother cooked food.  I ate the biryani. It was tasty.
"Bakr Eid" Mujahid ul Islam, 11 years

Aisha Jamal, 9 years

Assalamu alaykum My name is Aisha. This Bakr Eid we slaughtered a goat. On the day of Eid we went to a friend's house. There we watched them slaughter 3 goats. My father and mother had gone looking to buy a goat. But they found no goat. So then later when we were going home we stopped at the Adyar Masjid. A man told us he could get us a goat from a shop. So he went on a motorcycle and we followed him. And then he stopped at a shop and went into the shop with my father while we waited in the car. After some time my father came out and said that he had found a goat and next morning we could come with him and watch the goat being sacrificed. The next day we all except my mother went to the shop. After some time when the man came and said we could come and watch our goat being sacrificed. So we were watching. They came with a brown goat. My father said "This is not my goat. Mine had a white patch." So they looked among all the skins of the goats that had been sacrificed. And then they found one skin which matched the description of my father's goat. My father was upset that they had sacrificed his goat and said "Please give me my money back" They said "We will give you a choice. You can take back your money or you can choose a goat from all these goats." My father looked at the goats and he saw a goat bigger than the others and he chose it. They sacrificed it. Later we came home and the days after that were quite nice becuase we ate meat, meat, meat and meat with a bit of rice. We ate lamb chops, meatballs, rib chops and steak.

Arsh Ahmed, 4 years

First I brushed, then I went to bath, then I put on new clothes. Then I wear my slippers and went to mosque for prayers. Then I ate my lunch and I slept. I got up and again I went to the mosque.