From my childhood, the night before Eid, my clothes were always laid out at the foot of the bed. A fresh outfit, sometimes still stiff from the packaging and smelling like Sierra Leone, Africa from whence it came.
I remember waking before the sun, washing, getting dressed slowly and carefully, until the house was a whirlwind of family members readying themselves for the celebration.
We would leave the house and arrive to a sea of beautiful people in beautiful garb. Every color, every culture, every style you could imagine, all gathered in one place for one reason.
We begin to learn quite early on what it meant to be servants of The Beautiful who loves beauty.
#BlackoutEid #MuslimMetGala all results of us putting it on for Eid.
Yesterday, you did it again.
Dressing well on Eid is sunnah. The Prophet ﷺ kept a special garment that he wore for Eid and for Jummah, and he taught us how to embody beauty as a form of worship. To beautify yourself on these days is a form of gratitude, a way of honoring a day that Allah Himself set aside for us to celebrate.
And yet Allah reminds us where real beauty lives. After mentioning the clothing He gave us, He says:
“O children of Adam, We have given you garments to cover yourselves and as adornment. But the garment of righteousness, that is best.” (Al-A’raf, 7:26)
So we dress our best, and pray Allah beautifies our inner realities as he has beautified our outer.
Eid Mubarak from all of us at 5ivepillars.
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