Hari Raya is known as "lebaran". Muslims celebrate this event and usually used the words such as "Selamat Hari Raya" or "Happy Eid" to greet the other people who celebrate it.
Hari raya Aidilfitri is a celebration where it is determined by the sign of new moon (Rukyah), before the next month on the Muslim calendar, Syawal.
The meaning of Hari Raya Aidilfitri is for thanksgiving and forgiving. Most of muslims go to the mosque, pray, and thanks to God to forgive their mistaken in the past. Besides that, Hari Raya aims to unite the whole family in order to gathering together with love, blessings, forgiveness, and also to renew the relationship with others. Therefore, they used the words, "Maaf Zahir dan Batin" or "I seek forgiveness (from you) physically and spiritually" to keep in touch with each other.
Hari Raya Aidilfitri is a day where Muslims win their fasting from dawn to dusk in a month before. During Hari Raya Aidilfitri, Muslims always decor their house with oil lamps lighting to greet the angels which is believe will come during the seven days foregoing the festival. It is always started with morning prayer in mosque then giving the zakat to support the development of the mosque. Then, it will be a cheerful day for children because they get money from elder people.
It takes a month and focused in the first three days. During these three days, open-house will be held to
welcome people from all races come and salute the event. There are a lot of food which is provided
such as ketupat, cookies, and beef rendang and Muslims wear their traditional costumes. The dress for
men is called baju melayu and women's are known as baju kurung or baju kebaya. Songket and batik
are worn properly during this event.
Also, in Hari Raya, they will visit their ancestor's grave and clean up the grave, perform the recital of the Yasin and lift up tahlil (prayer) with the aims Allah will bless their ancestor and salvage them from the infliction in the grave.
figure 1 : poster of Hari Raya Aidilfitri
figure 2 : the celebration of Hari Raya with lights
figure 3 : food which always provided in Hari Raya
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figure 4 : how people celebrate Hari Raya
figure 5 : What people do in Hari Raya
References :
terengganutourism, n.d. Hari Raya. [Online] Available at:
http://www.terengganutourism.com/festivals.htm [Accessed 5 June 2013].
Malaysiatrulyasia, 2013. Hari Raya Aidilfitri. [Online] Available at: http://www.tourism.gov.my/en/Master/Web-Page/Events-n-Festivals/2013/8/Hari-Raya-Aidilfitri?evty=2013&evtm=8 [Accessed 5 June 2013].
JustEnglishExplorer, 2013. Hari Raya Aidilfitri. [Online] Available at: http://explorer.justenglish.com/magazine/special-event/hari-raya-aidilfitri [Accessed 5 June 2013].
Picture links :
http://ramadhan.701pages.com/articles/hari-raya-aidil-fitri-activities-in-malaysia-88.html
http://shutterspeech.net/10decisivetravels/?p=648
http://cpteh.blogspot.com/2012/08/selamat-hari-raya.html
- Nathania
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