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Download PDF Eid-ul-Fitr, the biggest religious festival of the Muslims, will be celebrated across the country tomorrow if the moon heralding the month of Shawal is sighted anywhere in Bangladesh today.
The new moon will end the month-long fasting of Ramadan by Muslims. People will offer Eid prayers seeking divine blessings and eternal peace, progress and prosperity of the nation.
Islamic Foundation sources said the National Moon Sighting Committee would sit at 6:30pm to scour the sky for the Shawal moon and also to receive information about moon sighting from across the country.
If the moon is not sighted today, the festival will be celebrated on Sunday.
The district-level moon-sighting committees, to be headed by deputy commissioners, will wire the national committee about the spotting of the moon anywhere in the country.
The committee will also collect information on moon sighting from the meteorological department.
President Iajuddin Ahmed and Chief Adviser Fakhruddin Ahmed in separate messages yesterday extended warmest greetings and heartiest felicitations to the people of the country and to all heads of state and government of Muslim countries on the occasion of the Eid-ul-Fitr.
Meanwhile, thousands of people have already left the capital for their village homes to celebrate the Eid with their loved ones.
Trains, launches and buses were crammed yesterday with homebound passengers as was the case the day before.
In Dhaka, shopping centres and malls saw heady crowds of Eid shoppers yesterday, a common scene for the last few days.
The main Eid congregation will be held at the Jatiya Eidgah on the High Court premises in the morning.
President Iajuddin Ahmed, Chief Adviser Fakhruddin Ahmed and other advisers, government high-ups, political leaders and the elite will say their Eid prayers at the Jatiya Eidgah. Several large Eid congregations will also be held at Baitul Mukarram National Mosque.
All preparations have been made to hold these congregations in the city as well as elsewhere in the country.
The national flag will be hoisted at government and non-government offices for the Eid. The main streets and road islands from Dhaka Gate at Banani to Bangabhaban in the city will be decorated with flags imprinted with ‘Eid Mubarak’ both in Bangla and Arabic.
Bangabhaban, Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban, Chief Adviser’s Office, Bangladesh Secretariat, Supreme Court building, Baitul Mukarram Mosque, foreign ministry office and Osmani auditorium will be illuminated.
Eid will also be celebrated in Bangladesh missions abroad.
Bangladesh Betar and Bangladesh Television as well as private television and radio stations will broadcast special programmes on this occasion. Newspapers have brought out special supplements today.
Special diets will be served at hospitals, jails, government-owned children and shelter homes, socially handicapped and vagabond welfare centres and shelter homes for the destitute people.
The Shishu Park will remain open to the underprivileged children on the Eid day.
Cultural functions, friendly football matches and Eid gatherings of children will also be held across the country.
CITY EID CONGREGATIONS
Dhaka City Corporation (DCC) will arrange the main Eid congregation at the National Eidgah at 8:30am. There will be special arrangement for women at the venue.
In case of inclement weather, the main congregation will be held at Baitul Mukarram National Mosque at the same time.
Five congregations will be held at Baitul Mukarram National Mosque at 7:30am, 8:30am, 9:30am, 10:30am and 11:30am. Congregations will also be held at all city mosques.
The country’s biggest congregation will be held at Sholakia in Kishoreganj, which Channel i, a private television channel, will broadcast live from 9:40am to 10:30am.
Dhakabasi, a capital-based socio-cultural organisation, will bring out traditional procession at 4:00pm on the second day of Eid from Bangladesh Shishu Academy to celebrate the Eid.
Different political and socio-cultural organisations have greeted the countrymen on the occasion.
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