Eid ka chand
Chalo apni apni eid manayein….
A recreational cum religious activity for our maulanas takes place a few times every year where a scene is set and maulanas explore the skies. This is called “spot the moon” and whole of the nation looks from their eyes. They have the equipment and the met department to assist them but our moon controversy is here to stay.
All other issues haunting us like floods, drones and sialkot boys are put aside at such times and everyone is glued to the tv screens for the “moon” updates! My friend’s niece called from Kohat and asked “khala! aap ke tv pe chaand nazar aa gaya hai?” Kids who are usually not willing to share their cartoon time with us were ready to check news channels for the discovery of the eid moon. After hours of struggle we got the mubarakbad for 30th roza and KP for eid!
A bunch of Maulanas( with their telescopes), all the media teams and we all failed to find the moon but the Qasim mosque crew did. They declared eid on friday, 10th September and the nation will celebrate two eids this year. Maybe we are trying to increase the number of happy days for Pakistanis! Happy Eid Mubarabak toKhyber Pakhtunkhawa!
Mufti Muneeb ur Rehman announced that eid will be on saturday 11th Sep 2010 in Pakistan. There is no conspiracy of Al-Qaida that we will be celbrating eid on 9/11 this year! According to my understanding if moon is sighted in any part of Pakistan then eid should be celebrated all over the country. Then why didn’t the Central Ruet-e-Hilal Committee believe Mufti Shahabuddin Popalzai when he said “19 authentic evidences, including two by women, were received from Mardan, Charsadda, Shabqadar and other areas, confirming the sighting of Shawwal moon. ” Let me stay out of this moon game….
The best part is that moon is so far away and out of reach for us in Pakistan otherwise we would have divided it into pieces and taken to our homes by now. Moon has this special place in the lives of us, Pakistanis. We celebrate eid after moon sighting and we even have a crescent on our flag. Our mothers sing this lovely urdu rhyme for us….
Chandda mamu, door key
Barey pakaye boor key
App khayein thali main
Guria ko dain piyali main
Piyali gaye toot!
Guria gaye rooth!
laayenge nayi pyaaliyaan
bajaa bajaa ke taaliyaan
munne ko manaayenge
ham doodh malaayi khaayenge!
Chandda mamu door key…….
May all of us enjoy a happy and peaceful eid, with no news alerts!!!
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well, about moon sighting there is an anecodote my late father used to narrate on this eid conteroversy. It is said that sometimes, somewhere, there lived a man whose wife’s name was moon. On the eve of evening of moon sighting, he would ask the woman to hide herself, and then command her to to co come out, so that he cold see her. Then he would appear before the mullahs and give testomony that he has “seen the moon” of course on oath. But now since two years women also give testemony of seenung moon…. I wonder what its going to lead us to…..
lolllz! thats funny
Thanks for sharing …