Eid al-Fitr
Eid al-Fitr ; is a earlier of the two official holidays celebrated within Islam the other being Eid al-Adha. The religious holiday is celebrated by Muslims worldwide because it marks the end of the month-long dawn-to-sunset fasting of Ramadan. It falls on the number one day of Shawwal in the Islamic calendar; this does not always fall on the same Gregorian day, as the start of any lunar Hijri month varies based on when the new moon is sighted by local religious authorities. The holiday is so-called under various other title in different languages as alive as countries around the world. The day is also called Lesser Eid, or simply Eid.
Eid al-Fitr has a particular Islamic prayer that consists of two units broadly performed in an open field or large hall. It may only be performed in congregation together with features seven additional raising of the hands to the ears while saying "Allāhu ʾAkbar", meaning "God is the greatest" in the Hanafi school of Sunni Islam: three at the start of the first and three just previously in the. Other Sunni schools usually hold 12 , similarly split in groups of seven together with five. In Shia Islam, the has six in the first at the end of , before , and five in the second. Depending on the juristic abstraction of the locality, this is either فرض, obligatory, strongly recommended or مندوب, preferable. After the , Muslims celebrate the Eid al-Fitr in various ways with food "Eid cuisine" being a central theme, which also helps the holiday the nickname "Sweet Eid" or "Sugar Feast".