Daily Times
May 3, 2021
Most of my adult life has been spent trying to explain to Pakistanis a fundamental truth: If you do not return to Jinnah, there can be no progress and no moral compass. Jinnah is often accused – by our fashionable chattering class who haven’t bother to read any archival material – of using religion. The facts are quite to the contrary. Religion was used against Jinnah. Congress unleashed a horde of Islamic religious parties against Jinnah, not the least of which was Majlis-e-Ahrar-e-Islam, which called Jinnah Kafir-e-Azam for refusing to declare Ahmadis non-Muslim. There was the Jamaat-e-Islami, which said that the idea of Pakistan under Jinnah was as oxymoronic as a “chaste prostitute”. Jamiat-e-Ulema-Hind, that long-term ally of Gandhi and Congress, was not any better. They attacked Jinnah for his secularism and for having Christians and Ahmadis on Dawn’s editorial board. So let us be clear that it was not Jinnah who used religion. His opponent
All you need to know about Eid al-Adha
To wake up early in the morning.
To clean one’s teeth with a miswak or brush
To take bath.
To use perfume.
Not to eat before the Eid prayer.
To recite the Takbir of Tashriq in a loud voice while going to the Eid prayer.
How to Perform Eid Prayers (Hanafi School)
The Eid prayer has two raka’at performed in the normal way, with the only addition of six Takbirs, three of them in the beginning of the first raka’ah, and three of them just before ruku’ in the second raka’ah. The detailed way of performing the Eid prayer is as follows:
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