Eid al-Adha 2021 greetings: How to wish someone a happy Eid?

The celebration of Eid al-Adha is also known as the ‘Festival of Sacrifice’ is one of the most important celebrations in the Muslim calendar.

This is the second Eid of the Islamic year. Two months ago Eid al-Fitr, the ‘Festival of the Breaking of the Fast’, was celebrated at the end of Ramadan.

Muslims celebrate Eid al-Adha throughout the week with blessings, prayers and feasts with family and friends.

The traditional feast includes sharing a sheep or goat with others, including sharing food with the poor so everyone is included in celebrations.

Eid al-Adha is celebrated all over the world with many people visiting the Holy Pilgrimage of Hajj in Saudi Arabia or celebrating closer to home with loved ones.

How to wish someone a Happy Eid Eid al-Adha celebrations have begun

If you know someone who will be celebrating Eid al-Adha this week, there is a traditional way in which you can do this.

You can greet them with “Eid Mubarak”, which is an Arabic phrase used throughout the week of celebration.

Eid Mubarak is is pronounced as it’s written, with “Eid” pronounced as you would “feed”, with emphases on the “Barack” part at the end.

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The word “Eid” means feast, festival or celebration and the word “Mubarak” means blessed.

When these come together as “Eid Mubarak” it means “blessed celebration” or “blessed feast”, it can also simply mean “happy Eid”.

The traditional response to someone who says Eid Mubarak is Khair Mubarak.

This means you wish good things to the person who greeted you.

If you wish to use Eid Mubarak in a full sentence, then greetings include:

Other phrases to wish Muslims a happy Eid include:

What is Eid al-Adha?

The Eid al-Adha festival commemorates the sacrifice Ibrahim nearly gave to God of his own son after a Devil told him to do so.

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Ibrahim believed the message was from God but in fact, it was from a devil.

Before he could sacrifice his son he was stopped by Allah who told him to sacrifice a lamb instead, beginning the tradition of feasting on sheep or goats.

Today Eid al-Adha celebration s remember the obedience Ibrahim gave to God and the devotion that Muslims have to God.

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