What if Eid arrived this year with a single moon? One that no two people would dispute, and no official statements or committees would contend over. A moon that asks for no nationality and recognizes no borders drawn by politics—but instead descends as a guest into every heart, reminding us that joy, much like pain, is a shared right.
اضافة اعلان
We may differ on the sighting of the crescents, but we have never differed on the sighting of tears. When the fires of war ignited, they did not distinguish between one house and another, nor between one mother and the next. We have all tasted the bitterness of harm; we have all pitched a tent to celebrate, only to find a mourning tent being raised next door. We move between stifled Takbirs and suspended sobs, as if joy is asking for permission to enter, only to be denied.
Is it conceivable that we share the same tragedy, yet fail to agree on the timing of our joy? It is as if we are passengers on a single ship in a raging sea; once the waves calm, we fall into dispute: from which direction does the sun rise!
As the poet Al-Mutanabbi once said:
> Eid, in what state have you returned, O Eid?
> Is it with the same old story, or is there something new in you to tell?
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Let its "renewal" this time be a moral decision before it is an astronomical one; a vow that what unites us is greater than what divides us, and that the unity of hearts is more truthful than the variance of calculations. The moon is one, the sky is one, and the grief of mothers is one… so how can Eid not be one?
Imagine a morning where cities wake up together, where the Takbirs from every minaret embrace, where windows are opened without fear, and children step out in their new clothes, unafraid of the whistle of a shell. Imagine a joy that does not apologize, does not feel ashamed, and does not shatter at the doorstep of a bereaved home.
Is it not time for a moment we all agree shall be our time for joy? Is it not time for the moon to bridge the distance between our hearts, so we may reclaim—just for once—what it truly means to be one nation?
