what do you learn from the lesson ,festival of Eid?
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Eid al-Adha is the Islamic festival that celebrates the completion of Hajj so it doesn’t in itself have any lessons that must be learned. The lessons learned are all about what you learned from Hajj.
On any given year only about 2 million of the world’s 1.8 billion Muslims go to hajj which is about 0.01% of Muslims. Even if we look at a period of 60 years with Muslims making Hajj each year the total number of Muslims who have made hajj at some point in their life will only account for about 0.6% of the worlds Muslims. This means less than 1% of world wide Muslims at any given year have experienced first hand the lessons they were supposed to have learned from Hajj while the rest of Muslims try to take in these lessons but without ever having experienced Hajj vary greatly in how much they can truly understand, accept, and implement them.
What then are the lessons one should lean from Hajj? Hajj is a massive undertaking in a persons life. It generally costs a lot of money to be able to do and is, for most Muslims a once-in-a-lifetime experience. Hajj however is not a vacation or even all that pleasurable. It is a sacrifice and that’s the biggest part of the lesson that’s meant to be learned is sacrificing your comfort, your concerns for this world, your dependence on material things, etc… One sacrifices all of this to focus purely on God and ones connection to their creator.
Hajj remembers and reenacts several key elements of the Muslim narrative following in the footsteps of Prophets Adam, Ibrahim, Ismail, and Muhammad (peace be upon them all) as well as Hajar (wife of Ibrahim/Mother to Ismail). These remembrances and reenactments help the Muslim to focus and connect to their place in Islam, in the world, and in time and connect on a spiritual level with the lives, sacrifices, and trials of those who came before them. I’ve gone over most of these in another post so I won’t reiterate them here. You can read more about them in my other answer.
Hajj can teach different people different lessons as the trials of Hajj may test people in different ways. For some the physical aspects are a big test, for others the crowds, for others the test is more in everyone being treated the same. For example a rich person will still be praying and living in much the same conditions as a poor pilgrim. Their position and/or wealth will not give them much better than anyone else. Because during Hajj a person must not argue, be angry, etc… some people might find the mental aspects of making Hajj to be the most difficult.
Hajj can teach us humility, humbleness, self control, sacrifice, patience, how to do more with less, about the unity of all humanity, but most importantly (in my opinion) how to reconnect with God in pure devotion and worship. Performing Hajj correctly expiates all sins effectively wiping clean our sins from our entire life up to that point leaving the person spiritually clean and pure. This also teaches Muslims about the unlimited capacity of Allah’s {SWT} mercy and love for Humanity.
If you do a web search for “lessons learned from Hajj” these are the biggest concepts that form a recurring theme across many of the articles written. These concepts are however understood differently by one who has completed the Hajj and had to fully experience it’s lessons as oppose to someone who simply comprehends the concepts (at least in theory) but has never had to be forced to really live the concepts by performing Hajj.
Because Hajj is so physically, Mentally, Emotionally, and Spriritually challenging this is why Muslims celebrate Eid al-Adha. Those who were not able to complete Hajj that year celebrate the successful completion of those who did focusing on the unity of the Ummah’s collective successful Hajjis, congratulating them and generally making supplication to someday allow them to do the same. Those who have already completed it in prior years often try to revisit their trips, hardships, and lessons learned and try to reconnect with the trials they themselves faced on their trips to renew their spiritual connection to the collective Ummah as well. It’s not uncommon for Hajjis to recount their journey and lessons learned at community or family gatherings.