Selamat Hari Raya Aidilfitri ~

AIDILFITRI IS COMING!!!!!!!!

Hari Raya Aidilfitri which is celebrated in Syawal 1 in the Hijrah year is also known as Hari Raya Puasa ( Eid ul-Fitr), Hari Raya Fitrah, and Hari Lebaran( Day Of Celebration). Hari Raya Aidilfitri is a celebration that celebrated by Muslims worldwide to mark the end of Ramadhan which Muslims had undergone fast piety one-month long. It is between two biggest celebrations to Muslims, other than Hari Raya Korban.

Aidilfitri originate through two means namely through Rukyah (see new moon) or by Hisab (count). In case of Rukyah, when the new moon seem, this mark the beginning of month of Syawal, namely 10th month in Takwim Islamic Hejira. In Malaysia, new moon will be observed by officer work in evening side to dusk in several strategic locations.

THE AIDILFITRI SYMBOL

The famous symbol for Hari Raya's celebration in Malaysia is rice cake or known as Ketupat. Rice cake is particular food that we served today. Rice cake is rice that we steam in coconut leaf weaving or accordion leaf and usually it serve together with rendang. The other foods served during Hari Raya including lemang, lontong, dodol, and cookies.

THE PREPARATION

In Malaysia, Hari Raya Aidilfitri greeted merrily. Weeks before that celebration loomed, preparation atmosphere approaching an Aidilfitri has been felt. The shopping centre will hold sale and embellished with ornament largely. Great songs also will be turned on radio and on television. Plans rotation of an Aidilfitri would be screened.

In major road and highway nationwide, congestion will be imputed flooded city population homing to homeland to take an Aidilfitri together family and kinsfolk. This phenomenon is also known as Going Back to Hometown.

TYPICAL PRACTICE

Among practice done at Hari Raya Aidilfitri was the habit of visit. In Hari Raya Aidilfitri morning, usually before and just after that perform prayer on Hari Raya Aidilfitri, those Muslims who have lost their relatives would visit their grave. Then they will visit to their family house. They will forgive each other and forget the past mistake. In the basis, Hari Raya is day to forgive each other and also a day to consolidate affinity amongst Muslims.

Practice of giving money to children also very popular in Hari Raya. The Raya money usually given by adults to the children through money envelope.

At night of twenty seven or known as Malam Tujuh Likur (night 27 Ramadan), lamp or kerosene lamp will be lit especially in villages. Sometimes lamp will be replaced with electric light use because it cleaner and practical, however Hari Raya celebration originality usually would decrease with this use.

Open houses will be held on Hari Raya or during month of Syawal. Hari Raya Aidilfitri festivity usually will be prolonged until one month, and the festivity will be lost with his self when all people return to town after completed leave.

CLOTHES

Baju melayu is Malay community traditional costume worn by men in Malaysia in Hari Raya. This clothes is equipped with songkok and songket that circumference in waist part. Those clothes become norm womenfolk also was Baju Kurung and Baju Kebaya.

Nur Hidayah ( 16.9.2009/ 18.9.2009 )

Extracted from: http://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hari_Raya_Aidilfitri

Origins of Ramadan

Origins of Ramadan…

Ramadan also written as Ramazan, Ramzan, Ramadhan, Ramdan, or Ramadaan is the ninth month of the Islamic calendar. It is the Islamic month of fasting, in which participating Muslims refrain from eating, drinking, smoking, and indulging in anything that is in excess or ill-natured; from dawn until sunset. Fasting is meant to teach, and to offer more prayer than usual. During Ramaḍān, Muslims ask forgiveness for past sins, pray for guidance and help in refraining from everyday evils, and try to purify themselves through self-restraint and good deeds. As compared to solar calendar, the dates of Ramadan vary, moving forward about ten days each year as it is a moving festival depending on the moon. Ramadan was the month in which the first verses of the Qur'an were claimed to have been revealed^{[Qur'an 2:185]} to the Prophet Muhammad

Privileges of the month of the Ramadan…

The most prominent event of this month is fasting. Every day during the month of Ramadan, Muslims around the world get up before dawn to eat Sehri or Sahari (it means something we eat at Sahar), the pre-dawn meal, then they perform the fajr (or Sobh) prayer. They have to stop eating and drinking before the call for prayer starts until the fourth prayer of the day, Maghrib. Muslims open their fast at Magrib (at sunset) prayer time or Iftari. Muslims may continue to eat and drink after the sun has set until the next morning's fajr prayer call. Then the process starts all over. Ramadan is a time of reflecting and worshiping Allah. Muslims are expected to put more effort into following the teachings of Islam and to avoid obscene and irreligious sights and sounds. Sexual activities during fasting hours are also forbidden.^{[Qur'an 2:187]} Purity of both thoughts and actions is important. The fast is intended to be an exacting act of deep personal worship in which Muslims seek a raised awareness of closeness to God.

Specialty Bulan Ramadhan

>the doors of heaven opened and closed the doors of hell

>bound demons in the month of Ramadhan,

>there a night better than thousand months, whoever is honored, then it get the glory of God ".
>Bulan yang penuh Barakah > Full moon Barakah
>Pada bulan ini pintu Jannah di buka dan pintu Neraka ditutup > In this open the door in the Jannah and the Fire closed doors
>Pada bulan ini syaitan-syaitan dibelenggu > In these demons handcuffed
>Dalam bulan ini ada suatu malam yang keberkatan beramal di dalamnya adalah lebih baik dari beramal selama seribu bulan, iaitu Malam Al-Qadar. > In this month there is a night of blessings do in it is better than work for a thousand months, ie Malam Al-Qadar.
>Pada bulan ini juga setiap hari akan ada malaikat yang menyeru dan menasihati umat Islam supaya berbuat baik dan menjauhi perkara maksiat > In this day will also each have an angel who called and advised Muslims to do goods and avoid evil things

Keistimewaan beramal di bulan Ramadhan>Amal itu dapat menutup dosa-dosa kecil antara Ramadhan ini sehingga bertemu Ramadhan berikutnya

> Charities was able to close the small sins of Ramadhan this meeting until the next Ramadhan

>Menjadikan bulan Ramadhan sebagai bulan memintakan syafaat daripada amalan membaca al-Quran dan puasa itu sendiri dan perisai siksaan neraka > Making month of Ramadhan as a month requested the intercession of the practice of reading the Quran and fasting itself and shield the punishment of the Fire

>Bagi orang yang berpuasa disediakan pintu khusus baginya untuk memasuki Jannah iaitu yang dinamakan “Rayyaan” > For those who fast specially prepared for him to enter the gates of Jannah called "Rayyaan"

Ihsan Mimbar Ulama Ihsan Pulpit Scholars

Practices during Ramadan…

1. Read Quran - Muslims are encouraged to read the entire Qur'an. Some Muslims perform the recitation of the entire Qur'an by means of special prayers, called Tarawih, which are held in the mosques every night of the month, during which a whole section of the Qur'an (juz, which is 1/30 of the Qur'an) is recited. Therefore the entire Qur'an would be completed at the end of the month.

2. Solat Sunat Terawih - Tarawih prayers are prayed in pairs of two and can be prayed in at least 20 raka'ahs according to the three major schools (Hanafis, Shafi'i, Hanbali) of Sunni Islam. This prayer is performed only during Ramadan of the Islamic Calendar after salah of Isha'a. Sunni Muslims believe it is customary to attempt a 'khatm' (complete recitation) of the Qur'an in Ramadan by reciting at least one juz per night in tarawih. If someone does not know how to read Qur'an or cannot read it very well, they may recite Surahs that they know. Tarawih prayers can therefore be considered optional, not mandatory.

Siti noraniza bt sani ( 16.9.2009 / 18.9.2009 )

Extracted from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramadan

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