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I’m back! Yep, it’s meeeeeeee!

Eid Mubarak to all nice people out there!

I had a wonderful Eid this year – I got to meet so many cousins (if you remember one of my early posts I was saying I hadn’t seen most of my cousins in years).

Anyway, Eid has made me a wiser person coz this year I made the classic Eid mistake. Can you guess what it is?

No, I didn’t fast with shaytan on Eid (in Bangladesh they always celebrate Eid two days later – mashed)! I thought Islam was supposed to have answers for new situations - so how are we supposed to deal with this problem? Hmm... I really don't like thinking about this one - it makes me so sad that I'm not celebrating on the same day as my cousin in Bangladesh :(

*BIG SIGH*

Ok, guess again?

No, I didn’t forget to pay my Zakat-ul-Fitr until Eid day :P In Bangladesh that would be ok coz there’s plenty of starving peeps around but since I’m now in England, it’s all about paying the Zakat-ul-Fitr two weeks in advance so it can fly to starving people around the world. Yeah, I know most people don’t realise this but the whole point of this Zakat in particular is that no-one should go hungry on Eid. It drives me round the bend when Mr Imam Sahib says to put any Fitranah money into “box for Masjid extension”. Grr…

Like usual Dad came home shouting at Mr Imam Sahib. He was angry coz the Imam was Bengali but apparently he was not a good speaker. Abba thinks that the Pakistani Mosque Committee purposefully find wimpy Bengali Imams to make Bengali people look stupid. Dad thinks we should set up our own Bengali Mosque. I didn’t agree – What happened to One Ummah man? Anyway, I bet even if the entire Mosque Committee became Bengali they would still fight over which part of Bangladesh they’re from and which tribe they're from. I’ve seen them doing it Bangladesh. I think they need some serious mentality re-boot! Out with the old (nationalism and tribalism) and in with the new (bonded by Islam)!

Outside the Mosque some HT guys were giving out leaflets about a conference this Sunday in Euston about the anti-terror legislation and how we should deal with it. These guys need to take a break some time – someone should introduce them to the concept of KIT KAT! :) Some of the speakers are from Stop Political Terror and the rest are from HT. I think I’ll be going to it and see what they have to say inshallah.

Ok back to me! Any more guesses? Ok, I’ll tell you… I got a POT! Yep, that’s my classic Eid mistake: POT!

:(

It’s so horrible but I couldn’t help it – I always get a POT on every Eid. I didn’t eat any breakfast and then by the time all the men came back from the Mosque, I was starving so I ate everything. I had to taste everything coz there were so many nice things. Then we went to all of these different houses. Each house was hiding another delicious surprise. So I ate and ate until… I got POT. I can’t even hide it under my clothes. You can see it and it’s so big and round like I’ve hidden a massive bowl on top of my belly. But it’s not a bowl, it really is my belly and it looks like a pot.

It reminds me of those little damaged like, grey teddy bears you can get with the little bellies that stick out. That’s what I looked like... Amongst many other valuable lessons, I have learnt this Eid the consequences of not having a little bit of patience. I hope nobody else got POT and everyone had a good Eid. I really want everyone to have a better Eid next year. Ameen.