Members of divided families whom the modern, industrialized life has forced to live apart from each other in different towns, come together and enjoy the delight of eating, together once more, and living, once again, a few days together. Religious festivals are, for Muslims, occasions for spiritual revival through seeking God's forgiveness and through His praise and glorification. They are enraptured by special supplications, odes and eulogies for the Prophet, upon him be peace and blessings. Especially in traditional circles where the traces of the past are still alive, people experience the meaning of the festival in a more vivid, colorful fashion, on cushions or sofas, or around stoves or fire-places in their humble houses or cottages, or under the trees among the flowers in their gardens, or in the spacious halls of their homes. They feel the meaning of the festival in each morsel they eat, in each sip they drink and in each word they speak about their traditional and religious values.
Religious festivals are of a much greater significance for children.
They feel a different joy and pleasure in the warm, embracing climate of the festivals, which they have been preparing to welcome a few days before, and, like nightingales singing on branches of trees, they cause us to experience the festivals more deeply through their play, their songs, smiles and cheerfulness. Religious festivals provide the most practical means for improving human relationships. People experience a deep inward pleasure. They meet and exchange good wishes in a blessed atmosphere of spiritual harmony. It is especially when the festival permeates hearts with prayer and supplications performed consciously that souls are elevated to the realm of eternity.