are there 2 Eids? What’s the difference between the 2?
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Eid is just the word for many/any Muslim festival/celebration day. Yesterday’s was Eid al Adha which is the celebration of when Abraham was wiling to sacrifice his son when God told him to.
The other, Eid al Fitr, is the celebration of the breaking of the fast that they hold at the end of the fasting month of Ramadan.
Eid is Arabic for feast/festival (in English the word ‘festival’ means ‘feast of’ – it’s from the Latin ‘festivus’).
There are two Eids -Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha – one to celebrate the end of Ramadan (essentially a Muslim version of Lent), the other to celebrate Abraham’s near-sacrifice of Isaac.
Shia Muslims also celebrate a third Eid.
I’m assuming you mean islam.
One is at the end of ramadan (cause fasting is over and shit) and the other is in dhul-hijja to imitate ibrahim (abraham) when he killed a ram, supposedly. Also in Arabic eid means festival or celebration or something along those lines.
Source: Am former muslim
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