In July 2015, Ruqia Hassan posted a message on her Facebook page: "Greetings to every girl celebrating Eid in her pyjamas!" It was the kind of dig her followers loved; a sarcastic acknowledgment that small pleasures – such as wearing new clothes on Eid – had become impossible since Raqqa, a small city on the north bank of the Euphrates river, had turned into the dark heart of the Islamic State.
Despite the global chaos as millions scrambled to change their Eid plans, every Muslim country except Indonesia felt obliged to follow the Saudi line, for the simple reason that their people could see their co-religionists gathered at Mecca's Mount of Mercy.Local issues still inflame passions in places like Laayoune.
But this year Eid bypassed Aleppo.Almost every shop in the east of the city remained shuttered.
In performing the fifth pillar of Islam, or the Hajj, they assume doesn't t have to go far to the Holy Land of Mecca, but simply by undergoing the Sasih Ceremony which coincided with the Eid al-Adha every 10th of Rayagung (Dhulhijjah).
Ms Hastini, 44, her Dutch husband, John Paulisen, 47, and their two children: a little boy, Arjuna, 5 and a girl, Sri, 3 would visit her family in her hometown of Solo in Central Java every two years during the Eid holiday.
At first the rest of the council stayed away, but lately most meetings get a quorum of 25 out of the remaining 42. "Every day of peace is like Eid," Haj Mohammed Khan, the clerk to the council told me.
Islam's Eid ul-Adha reminds me every year that what we believe about God doesn't matter as much as whether we believe in God in the first place.
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The people of Qatar normally observe two main religious festivals that differs every year as per the lunar calendar; Eid Al- Fitr and Eid Al-Adha.
