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Social Eid party celebrates finale of Ramadan with fun and games
Holly Williams
Issue date: 10/23/07 Section: Student Life
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Throughout the month of Ramadan, the MSA has been hosting iftars on campus. Iftars are when the Muslim community is allowed to break their fast at sundown and they decided to further involve students by hosting a Eid celebration.
"We invited our members and students to come and enjoy themselves while we do different activities, eat and socialize," said Amal Hassan, the MSA's on-campus sisterhood coordinator. "In my perspective, it [the event] went pretty well."
Approximately 40 to 50 people came to celebrate and played games such as soccer, Taboo, capture the flag, ping-pong, human foosball and different board games.
Although the food was a main attraction of their celebration, MSA members did not forget the true meaning of why they were there.
"We fast to refuel a spiritual need, a type of religious revival within ourselves that really doesn't come to show during the rest of the months throughout the year," said Adnan Ahmad, MSA's on-campus brotherhood coordinator.
"We had this social as a celebration to mark the end of the fast and hoped that everyone had a great Ramadan and wanted everyone to have a good time, which we hope we have accomplished."
The English translation of Eid means "holiday." This Eid was a celebration of the hard work and effort Muslims had to go through during the month of Ramadan.
"We are celebrating that we just dedicated a whole month to religious practice where we not only abstain from eating and drinking during daylight, but tested our self-control and attempted to do only good," said Hassan.
To Hassan, the whole month of Ramadan was a testing ground for her faith. It taught her and her community struggle, discipline, restraint and, most of all, taught her to appreciate the bounties of God.
"Many of us do not appreciate things until we lose them," she said. "We appreciate the cool AC when its steaming hot. In this case, we appreciate the food God has provided for us and going through hunger helps us learn that."
The Eid was a sort of "graduation" from Ramadan.
The MSA is looking for more student participate in future events. They hold community service events once a month and are always open to new ideas and suggestions for events.
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