27/05/2026
For many Muslims around the world, Eid is not only a religious celebration.
It is memory, family, childhood, absence, migration, and belonging. It is waking up very early in the morning with excitement that makes children sleep next to their new clothes and shoes the night before. It is visiting grandparents, cousins, neighbours, and also visiting those who passed away. It is hearing voices in the house, crowded tables, arguments, laughter, perfumes, streets full of movement, and feeling, even for one day, that nobody is alone. But for many people, Eid becomes something else.
A phone call.
A memory.
A video from far away.
A celebration happening somewhere you cannot reach.
Some people cannot travel because they have no documents.
Some are blocked by borders, visas, or the limitation of movement.
Some are displaced by war.
Some are living in shelters, camps, or temporary rooms far away from home.
Some are in places where even electricity, safety, water, or stability are uncertain.
And sometimes, even with the phone in your hand, you feel blocked.
Blocked from calling.
Blocked from saying “Happy Eid.”
Blocked from feeling the happiness itself.
Not because you do not love your family.
But because distance changes things.
War changes things.
Migration changes things.
Pain changes things.
Some families today should be sitting around a full table together, but instead there is not even a glass of water.
Some people are celebrating while hearing bombs.
Some are completely alone in countries where nobody around them understands what this day means.
And still, as humans, we continue dividing each other with passports, borders, documents, religions, identities, categories, and labels.
This text is not about religion.
It is about the human experience of separation, memory, survival, and the need to belong.
Today is also for those celebrating far away from home.
For those rebuilding family somewhere else.
For those carrying traditions quietly in another language, another country, another reality, while trying not to forget who they are.
Happy Eid ❤️
Happy Eid ❤️
