By Mohammad Saifullah
GOMBAK, 12 September 2016: It’s Eid Mubarak. Eid means joy, Eid means happiness. Every year we celebrate two occasions, Eid-ul-Fitr and Eid-ul-Adha.
Today, 10 Zulhijjah 1437H, Muslims all over the world celebrated one of the happiest days, the Eid-ul-Adha.Â
IIUM showed a big multicultural Eid-ul-Adha celebration among students and their families. Students from more than one hundred countries enjoyed the day, which made unity in diversity in IIUM campus a reality.
œIt is not just important to eat the meat, rather it is a very enjoyable and cheerful moment while we work together in the spirit of brotherhood on this auspicious occasion, said Mohammad Qasim, a student from the Kulliyyah of Engineering.
By the grace of Allah, the congregational prayer of Eid-ul-Adha started at 8:30 a.m at the Sultan Ahmad Shah Mosque, IIUM.
There was a good khutbah from the khatib on the need for brotherhood among Muslims to strengthen the bonds among the ummah throughout the universe. The Eid-ul-Adha prayer ended with a special do’a for the development of the ummah.
Following this, there was a good environment that existed among the campus community through cooperation shown while performing the slaughtering of cows for the ibadah qurban or “sacrifice”.
Although the university’s management had divided the cows separately according to the students from the countries they came from, they managed to work together and helped each other to create a feeling brotherhood during this memorable day at the university.
Fahmi Balandi, a student from Turkey said, œIt is my first time to celebrate this occasion outside my country and I got a lot of experience today that are totally different from my culture.”
œThis will be my lesson for the future on how people from different cultural backgrounds can make such a good relationship by working simultaneously like what we do today, he added.
At the end of the day, the result was that people enjoyed themselves and felt happy with the support of everybody.
œToday I feel that Im celebrating my day with my own family because together here we are like a family and it’s already proven by everyone of us working together, said Fakhi Ali, a student fromTanzania.
May Allah SWT accept our sacrifices for what we have done today. ***
