The Post-Eid Eid Post.
The day with the most lack of sleep… well at least for the morning.. wake up at 3am then it’s non-stop… Fajr, Qabrastaan (Grave Yard), Eid Salaah… finally home a second but have to move to Inlaws for Breakfast (finally! notice how we never get hungry in Ramadaan, but suddenly on Eid we’re ravenous?)) anyhow, finally I get a point where people are undecided what to do next, so before they figured it out I caught at least an hour of shut-eye.
Was looking pretty spiffy too, if I may say so myself :) I have to mention I got a facial the night before, now before your mind goes on a tangent akin to MJ’s post on the Metrosexual Muslim and Eid, you should know that my Mum-in-law is a very Qualified Beautician and the service was on offer to “her favourite son-in-law” (read ONLY son-in-law), so I figured.. what the hell…
Anyhow I ended up looking good with skin all smooth and Matt (for once not oily as my wife complains), I also noticed the whiteness… and then I got a bit angry with thoughts filling my head about our brain-washing thinking that White is Beautiful, then my mind skipped to something Ebrahim Fakude (He is/was the president of the Muslim Youth Movement) once discussed with me regarding Fazlul Karim’s translation of Imam Al-Ghazzali’s Ihya Ulum-id-Deen where the translator quoted a hadith by Nabi (SAW) saying something similar to “There is no difference between a black woman and a pretty woman.” What? So the logiacl conclusion from that would be that Black women are Ugly? Now that made me very angry (and made him angry as well), because I certainly can never imagine our Prophet (SAW) ever mentioning anything so racist and Never Imam Al-Ghazzali mis-quoting a Hadith in( Arabic no less).
Okay i’m off the topic. Right, on Eid day I wore a Black Kurtah, Black Pants, Shoes, Everything, so was really hard core (like something out of a Muslim Matrix). But I regretted the dress because on the day it was 34°C and I have a tendency to overheat, not very comfortable. It was A/C the whole day and just my luck, My aunt’s Place for Lunch didn’t have an A/C so I had to suffer through heat although there was some really really good Biryani :) and also dealing with my year younger cousins who were doing car upgrades (yes on Eid Day) to remove airfilters so the car can sound “Louder”… maybe I’m too grown up now, but I couldn’t see the point. Anyway as I pretended to know more about cars than I actually do, I managed to find out my cousin has a ton of DVD’s I really want… so another contact in my media collectors portfolio. Word.
The rest was arb visits to family all over the place, My wife looking absolutely Gorgeous (Damn, I am so lucky) and the finalè was a supper at the in-laws inclusive of Gifts, and Laughter and trying to convince the brother of Mufti AH Elias (SA’s BIGGEST Mufti) that Music was NOT Haraam amongst some other discussion about three Talaq’s vs. one Talaq and Apostasty in Islam (yeah.. hectic :P) but it was really fun.
I have one gripe though… after getting married I never get personal gifts.. I get these cop-out household gifts addressed to My wife AND Me… like I’m a second thought… and as if I’ll have any use for yet another Serving Tray or fruit basket…
But I’ll end this post with saying that I had such a great day Alhamdulillah :) it was Brilliant :)
Sometimes we take the things we have for granted too often.
Word.
Peace,
M.
P.S. I got pics so I’ll be putting up a Flickr Feed soon :)
