The Muslim festival ‘Id Al-Fitr is being celebrated on Tuesday in many parts of the Muslim world.
The three-day festival, translating from Arabic as “the breaking of the fast festival,” is celebrated on the first day of the Muslim month Shawwal, and marks the end of the hardships of the fasting period during the holy month of Rama’dan.
A practicing Muslim from eastern Jerusalem told The Media Line the festival represents to her and to her companions in faith “a day that God granted Muslims to rejoice. We have a joyful holiday to be with the family, visit one another and give charity,” she said.
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Although the festival is otherwise known as the “minor festival”, it is celebrated with more festivity than the complementing “major Festival”, ‘Id Al-A’dkha, which will occur in a couple of months.
Since the Islamic calendar is lunar, ‘Id Al-Fitr is celebrated on different dates around the world, according to moon sightings.
The festival is starting on Tuesday in Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Sudan, Jordan, Yemen, Indonesia, Israel, Palestinian territories, The United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Bahrain, Oman and Kuwait, according to the London-based A-Sharq Al-Awsat.
Libya, Iraq and Nigeria started celebrating the festival on Monday.
Muslims are currently marking the 1424th year of the Hijri calendar.