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Eid & Islamic Holidays

Eid al-Fitr, Eid al-Adha, qurbani, Hajj and the Islamic calendar. Short, honest answers for new Muslims.

Should I make up with family members on Eid?

Yes, Eid is a great time to make up with family. Islam rewards the one who reaches out first, though you can still keep safe boundaries.

If you're sick on Eid, you're excused from the Eid prayer and still rewarded. Say the takbir, make dua and connect with family from home.

Yes, walking to the Eid prayer is a sunnah when it's easy, and coming home by a different route too. Driving is fine if the prayer is far.

No, there's no sunnah prayer before the Eid prayer. Pray Fajr as usual; in a mosque, many scholars allow two rak'ahs to greet the mosque.

Yes, you can celebrate Eid over video call with family abroad. It keeps family ties strong, but pray the Eid prayer in person first.

Yes, you can get married on Eid. No day of the year is forbidden for a nikah; plan it after the Eid prayer and keep the moon-based date flexible.

Bring sweets, a dessert, fruit or a small gift to an Eid dinner as a guest. Avoid alcohol and non-halal food, and think of the children.

Chand Raat is the night before Eid, when the new moon is sighted and South Asian Muslims celebrate with henna, bazaars, family and takbir.

Shia Muslims mourn on Ashura for Husayn, the Prophet's grandson, killed at Karbala in 680 CE. How Shia and Sunni Muslims mark the 10th of Muharram.

Can Muslims celebrate Nowruz? Scholars differ: most reject it as a religious festival, many allow it as a cultural family day without superstitions.

Yes, you can get married in Muharram. No verse or authentic hadith forbids a nikah in any month; the unlucky-month idea is cultural, not Islamic.

Muharram is the first month of the Islamic calendar and a sacred month, home to the Islamic New Year and the fast of Ashura on the 10th.