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ASSIGNMENT QUESTIONS : Write an essay of 1500 words on a particularly meaningful incident or event. Hari Raya Aidilfitri or Eid ul – Fitr is one of the most meaningful event for Muslims all over the world. It is celebrate every year in the month of Syawal in Islamic year. It is also known as ‘Lebaran’ or the day where we seek for forgiveness physically and spiritually. Eid ul-Fitr is the time to reconcile and renew relationship with other. Before we celebrate Eid ul – Fitr, the Muslims must fast for a month in Ramadan ( a month before Syawal). It is mandatory for Muslims to fast from dawn to dusk. All Muslims except the young, old or infirm must fast. Fasting in Ramadan now is very different from those days. I am still remembering when I was at age ten, Ramadan is the best month at my village. We use to play more during this month especially at night. In Ramadan, Muslims will pray Tarawikh prayer every night. As a kid, I use to take this chance to go the mosque with my friends. After eight ‘rakaat’ of Tarawikh, we will stop pray and play at behind of the mosque. We will play ‘catch a thief’ and ‘galah panjang’. It was so enjoyable time. After finished playing, we will eat the ‘moreh’, foods that served for the Muslims after finished pray the Tarawikh prayer. 1

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ASSIGNMENT QUESTIONS :

Write an essay of 1500 words on a particularly meaningful incident or event.

Hari Raya Aidilfitri or Eid ul – Fitr is one of the most meaningful event for

Muslims all over the world. It is celebrate every year in the month of Syawal in Islamic

year. It is also known as ‘Lebaran’ or the day where we seek for forgiveness physically

and spiritually. Eid ul-Fitr is the time to reconcile and renew relationship with other.

Before we celebrate Eid ul – Fitr, the Muslims must fast for a month in Ramadan

( a month before Syawal). It is mandatory for Muslims to fast from dawn to dusk. All

Muslims except the young, old or infirm must fast. Fasting in Ramadan now is very

different from those days. I am still remembering when I was at age ten, Ramadan is the

best month at my village. We use to play more during this month especially at night. In

Ramadan, Muslims will pray Tarawikh prayer every night. As a kid, I use to take this

chance to go the mosque with my friends. After eight ‘rakaat’ of Tarawikh, we will stop

pray and play at behind of the mosque. We will play ‘catch a thief’ and ‘galah panjang’.

It was so enjoyable time. After finished playing, we will eat the ‘moreh’, foods that

served for the Muslims after finished pray the Tarawikh prayer.

Another thing that I can never forget about Ramadan night is about playing fire-

cracker and bamboo cannon ( meriam buluh). If we are not play at the mosque, we will

play the bamboo cannon near the paddy-field. There are two types of the cannon. One we

called it bamboo cannon because we is the big bamboo as a cannon and another one is the

ground cannon where we dig a hole as a cannon.. Basically, a typical bamboo cannon

consists of a large bamboo and I will mix calcium carbide and some water. The chemical

will formed as a result an explosive gas. The gas will explodes when exposed to flame

targeted to the mixture. The explosion may cause injury to the player if not handled

carefully. The best things that I remembered, we always fight with the other village

nearby whose cannon is the most powerful. We play until midnight without any afraid of

ghost because during Ramadan, all the Satan and devil were tight.

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Other than that, I am also play the fire cracker. Even now, all the kids will play

the fire cracker or ‘bunga api’ during Ramadan’s night. I remembered that once where

my friend got burnt because of the fire – cracker. We were scolded by his parents all the

way to the hospital and thank God he was slightly injured. Another event during

Ramadan’s night is playing the ‘gendang’ or ‘tabuh’ at the mosque. The elders will play

it until the time to ‘Sahur’. Sahur means the time where Muslims eat the last time at early

morning before Subuh prayer. After that is the time of fasting.

Fasting for a month is very challenging especially for a young kid at ages ten.

Fasting means you cannot eat drink and put something into your body. During Ramadan,

Muslims are also expected to put more effort into following the teaching of Islam by

avoiding violence, anger, envy, greed and all the bad things. Muslims also order to recite

the Quran every night in Ramadan.

Even other religions do fasting. Hinduism, Buddhism, Christian Lent and the

Jewish fast with their own way. It is also different from one another. Members of The

Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints generally fast for 24 hours on the first Sunday

of each month. Like Muslims, we refrain from all drinking and eating unless they are

children or are physically unable to fast. Fasting is also a feature of ascetic traditions in

religions such as Hinduism and Buddhism.

The scenario in Ramadan’s night are very different from now days. Although

there are some event still continuing but our children now use to stay at home during

Ramadan’s night watch television or play computer games. They do not now how to play

and enjoy playing some traditional games during the nights of Ramadan. Who should to

be blamed? If this continuing, our future children will never knows all those things and

event. It will be lost in time.

Actually, there are a lot of meaningful event in Ramadan such as go to the Bazaar

Ramadan, breaking the fast at the mosque, ‘Lailatul-Qadar’s’ night and paying ‘zakat

fitrah’ but what I want to share here is the most meaningful time is the celebration of Eid

ul-Fitr.

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After all above, the best moment is celebrating the Eid ul – Fitr. It is very much

commercialized in Malaysia. The big promotion will be all over the shopping malls and

supermarkets. The Muslims will buy new clothes and supplies. This is the best part where

last time I will go to the ‘Pasar Hari’ with my father to buy some new clothes and it is the

time where I can choose ‘Baju Melayu’ for my ‘Hari Raya’ day. Everything will be new.

The ‘Hari Raya’ songs will be played in the radio and the television.

The town people traditionally return to their hometown to celebrate Eid ul-Fitr

with their family and friends. The roads will full of cars all over the way to north, south

and east. The traffic will be bad especially two days before Eid ul –Fitr. The bad things

are there will be a lot of accident during the traffic. Road safety campaigns are often

launched by the government ahead of the festivals in effort of lowering the discomforting

numbers of accident.

On the eve of the celebration, family members especially mother and housewife

will be busy preparing food, cakes, ketupat, lemang and a various delicious to be served

on the day of Eid ul-Fitr. The favourite meal in my village is lemang, ketupat and

rending. It is compulsory to be served on that day. If the women will busy at the kitchen,

the men will busy clearing the house compound, wash the windows and even paint the

walls. At night, I will lit up the oil lamp all over the house.

On the early morning of Eid ul –Fitr, when I was young, I will wake up early,

pray the Subuh prayer then help my mother preparing the breakfast. That is the first day

Muslims will take the breakfast after fasting for a month. After that, I will put my new

‘Baju Melayu’ and go to the mosque for Eid ul-Fitr prayer. Before we do the prayer, al

the Muslims will recite ‘takbir’. Once the prayer is done, it is also common for Muslims

in Malaysia to visit the grave of their loved one. I used to visit my parents grave during

this time with my siblings.

The rest of the day is spent visiting relatives or serving visitor who come to my

house. When I was young, I used to go to the entire house in my village to collect money

or we called it ‘duit raya’. In this day, the adults are extra generous. Children will be

given money a much like RM 1 or 50 cents. I used to take this advantage to go all around

my village to collect ‘duit raya’ with my friends. Even now, these traditional activities are

still going but only in the village area. None of urban children will go to the house around

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their neighborhood to collect money. Children these days like to sit at home and watch

television programme. It is should be a very joyous day for children.

Now days, during the Eid ul-Fitr, all my siblings will gather at our hometown.

That is the most meaningful time where we will seek forgiveness among ourselves. It is

also the time where I will train my son to become a good manner person, generous and

always respect to the elders. After that I will bring my son to visit his grandfather’s and

grandmother’s grave. Then, he will follow his cousins go to house by house seeking ‘duit

raya’ as what I am doing when I was young.

For me, Eid ul-Fitr is one of the most meaningful events for Muslims. It is

celebrated all over the world even in Iraq where the war is on or Palestine where every

day we heard about the Zionist attack the Muslims. It is the day to enjoy the winning after

a month fasting. It is the day that Muslims are generous, forgiveness and kindness. In

Malaysia, there will be a lot of Muslims opens the house for their friends to come and eat

variety of foods. Sometimes I had to attend five open houses of my friends in a day. The

government were also do the event that called ‘Rumah Terbuka Aidilfitri Kebangsaan’

and all the races in Malaysia which able to come and enjoy the foods. The open house

invitation will continued for a month of Syawal.

It is my grateful if all the event and activities in Ramadan and Syawal will keep

on. Although the celebration are different between the countries all over the world but the

main things is to thank to our God for the winning after a month fasting. Amin.

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