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Eid Al-Adha


A Pakistani teenager hugs his goat at a livestock market for upcoming Eid al-Adha festival on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan.


Happy Eid to Muslims once again. I feel thankful that we have 2 eids in a year, and although the former Eid renders people (predominantly Muslims in Asia) more celebrations and joy, EidulAdha has a greater significance. Although I'm many miles away, pictures of Muslims clad in white coming from all over the world, congregating on this very day, in front of Kaabah, has always given me spiritual strength and faith and hopes that someday, I'll muster my way there myself, God-willing.

Hope this holiday brings well to all be it enjoying the good company of food and family, studying or relaxing :)

I found this really nice quote from Yatay, and I'd like to share this:

In Morocco, on one of our honeymoons, I became drawn to the word 'inshallah', meaning 'if God wills it'. I love the simplicity and beauty of this idea. In English, there is no one word that so completely surrenders to fate.

-Martha McPhee


How I personally interpret this is nothing of any associations to 'low perseverance' or 'resignation of fate' for that matter. How I see this is we say "inshaallah" purely because we don't know when God decides to take our souls away. But this quote is so beautiful, I am fascinated by the whole lisguistic aspect of it, and I'd like to know really if there's any equivalent word from any other languages that can capture this same essence.
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