Allahuakbar Allahuakbar Allahuakbar
Laailaahailallah hu Allahuakbar
Allahuakbar walillahilhamdu
TAkbir echoed around the lounge room in Pak Honest flat. We all gathered in his house to recite the takbir to welcome the Eid. We had both relieve and sadness at this moment; relieved for finishing the fasting in Ramadhan but sad that the Ramadhan, the holly month, for this year ended. We missed all the moment of ibadah, the moment of silaturahmi during Ramadhan, when we used to meet in break time and tarawih time. All of us here in Footscray felt the closeness as a big muslim family. We missed all those moments.
As morning comes on Wednesday, the 1st of Oktober 2008, all of us were ready for Eid el Fitr prayer in Melbourne University. Most of Indonesian Muslims gathered in the sport centre to perform the prayer and this was just another heartbreaking moment for me personally. This was the first time I celebrated the Eid far away from home. We used to gathered in my parents house with the whole big family. But anyway, here in Melbourne we have another big family of Melbourne Indonesian Muslims.
After prayer we had break fast together with various Indonesian traditional food; the ketupat, opor, balado, urap-urap and others. Hmmm nyam. This was just the right time and moment to again have the taste of Indonesian foods and to meet other Indonesian Muslims.
We do hope that next year our Ramadhan and Eid would be much better than this year. Amin.
For all the muslims thoroughout the world we would like to say
Taqabblallahu minna wa minkum, taqabbal ya karim.
Minal aidzin wal faidzin.
Happy Eid Mubarak.
