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| Bright blue sky in the morning of Eid |
Let's start it with the bright blue sky in the morning. It was such a blessed day. A few small clouds were flying, blown by the wind eastward. In a morning when we (moslems) were having Eed like yesterday, they kind of look like candyflosses to me. Haha...I think I looked forward to eat every sweet snacks we got at home later.
Yeah, this is a story about my walk to the place where I had Eid prayer yesterday. The day when moslems in my country, and around the world, were having a great joy after completing our big religious activities along Ramadhan. There are two Eids that we have every years, Eid Al-Fitr and Eid Al-Adh. The one we celebrated yesterday was Eid Al-Fitr (eid of breakfasting).
That morning, I went walking to the western edge of Proklamasi street where people in my neighborhood used for Eid prayer every years. According to the sunnah (prophet example), moslems should do the Eid prayer on a field. With a decreasing number of fields in an overpopulated cities like in my hometown (Depok), people uniquely often use the street as the replacement for its ability to accommodates lots of people. Of course it never caused traffic problem for it had been accepted by the government and people around The street was filled with people walking toward the same direction, takbir were being shouted around, and people greet each other with bright smile on their faces.
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| The Eid payer shafs |
In the place of Eid prayer, people lined to make shafs. Newspapers were used to make a layer for keeping the sajadah from dirt. There are lots of parents who brought their child along to experience the prayer. And then, the prayer began.
After the prayer, people went home virally. Everyone wanted to get home as quick as possible. At that moment of walking home, I saw a little boy gathering the newspapers that being left on the street. I feel so sorry for him and tried my best not to bother him as some people did (by stepping on the paper he wanted to take carelessly). But, when I saw him more, he was like having fun that time.
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| The newspaper gathering boy |
Thankfully, Islam has the zakat fitrah. A system of which someone has to share what they usually eat to the needy. In our religion it is meant to clean one's wealth and in the other hand also to make sure that everyone have something to eat in the day of Eid. In my point of view, it can also make the needy, that usually eat lower graded food (rice in my country), to be able to eat a better quality food that they rarely have at least once in a year. It can also convince them that the wealthy still and will always care for them.
After all, people are generally having a great joy in Eid Al-Fitr. In Indonesia, it is a day when family members gather from all over the globe, when forgiveness are being spread around, when children are waiting eagerly to get money from their relatives, when ketupat and its company are on the table, and when smiles are easily seen on the face of people. After the Eid prayer yesterday, I was really sure that, just like me, people are walking and riding their vehicles to nowhere but one place, a place where they belong, a place called "home".
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| People moving toward their "home" |
