Eid: A Festival Of Togetherness
English book, p. 85
By Maulana Wahiduddin Khan
EID: A FESTIVAL OF TOGETHERNESS Festivals are found in all nations and countries. They exist in every society in some form. In fact, festivals continue all year round. Every day of the year, a festival is being celebrated somewhere. There is not a single day in the year that is free from festivals. This is because a festival is a social need. It is something natural in human life. Throughout the year, people remain busy with their work and rarely get the chance to meet one another on a large scale. Meeting people is an important social need. However, as people lead busy lives, this need is often not fulfilled. In the same way, it is also a fact that due to one reason or another, every person experiences some kind of stress or boredom. Everyone lives as if carrying a heavy mental load on their shoulders. Every person is, more or less, a case of tension. A festival is a solution to this. To remove this condition, every society has maintained the system of festivals, so

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