Ramadan and Eid.
This is what Samad has written about a very important time of the year for him.
My name is Samad Siddiqui and I go to Hadley Junior School. I am nine years old and I am a Muslim. Muslims celebrate nthe festival of Eid. Eid comes twice a year, first of all Eid-ul-Fitr and then Eid-ul-Adhar.
Eid -ul-Fitr is celebrated at the end of Ramadan which is a month of fasting before Eid. During the month of Ramadan all Muslims over the age of ten fast. Some children at the age of seven, eight and nine keep a fast. I am nine and I am keeping a fast. I keep fast from sunrise to sunset. We wake up in the morning and have something to eat for a certain time, then we do not drink or eat until sunset. We pray five times a day. The ones I miss when I am at school I have to read when I come back home. We keep fast to forget our needs and to remember the poor and starving people. We learn not to be greedy and to remember to be patient for food.
I feel proud of keeping a fast because we are doing something for the poor and for us and our God.
Rabia wrote this;
We have to wake up at 5.30 am. and eat something. The most interesting thing I know is that when we have eaten, we have to pray to God and read the Quran and it is very special to us. When Mohammed opened his fast, he only ate a little bit of salt.
and Nabeela;
I am eleven years old and I am fasting for Ramadan. I have missed three fasts. Every day the time changes for closing the fast and opening the fast. We fast because we will know how the poor people feel when they are hungry.