Y’all.
Khair Mubarak.
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Hope you do too!
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Eid mubarak to you too!
I gave someone Muslim that I know a package of Mideast delicacies for Eid a Fitr. He had a hard Ramadan.
A friend said I could use a hard Ramadan. We buried him a year later, though Mohammed’s Big-Ass Hammer continued to solve assembly problems for years after. Of course, had he FOLLOWED THE FUCKING ASSEMBLY INSTRUCTIONS he’d be alive today.
Just watch: I will spend tonight in dreams writing assembly instructions that will be ignored and people will [del]die[/del] continue to blame me.
Would someone explain? All google gives me is that it’s either related to an unspecified Muslim holiday, or has something to do with the former Egyptian president.
“Eid” is “Eid al Fitr” (“Festival of Fast Breaking”). It’s the feast at the end of the month of Ramadan, during which faithful (healthy) Muslims fast all day. (hence the “hard” part. My friend was under stress, as well). Think of it as sort of the Muslim Mardi Gras, more logically placed after Lent.
“Mubarak” means “Happy”, so “Eid Mubarak” is “Happy Eid” or “Happy Feast”
The response, as in #2 above, is usually “Khair Mubarak”, although there are many other responses, varying with country:
Surely we cannot translate “mubarak” as “happy”? “Blessed”, perhaps?
Congratulations is the closest probably.
Indeed. It’s from basically the same root as the Hebrew “bracha”, or “blessing”.