Choice Of Eid Gifts

Eid, is a three-day Muslim holiday that marks the end of Ramadan, the Islamic holy month of fasting (sawm). Eid is an Arabic word meaning "festivity," while Fir means "original nature," implying the restoration of one's best human composition. The holiday celebrates the conclusion of the thirty days of dawn-to-sunset fasting during the entire month of Ramadan. The first day of Eid, therefore, falls on the first day of the month Shawwal.

Eid is a real celebration for every muslim and on eid day, all members of the family gather and offer eid prayer, wear new dresses and exchange gifts. The options for eid gifts are unlimited, however there are few choices which are usually preferable.

Flowers on Eid
The best option for eid gifts is Flowers or flower arrangement. Floral arrangements are important part of millions of peoples life everyday in the world. There is no other thing that is common as gift than flowers. Flowers have universal language so are used throughout the whole world for every occasion like birthday, wedding, anniversaries, religious celebrations or even over deaths and sad moments, so flowers comes to mind very first when we talk about eid gifts.
You can send flowers bouquet, flowers basket or flower wreaths to your loved ones. Lilies and roses are the best candidates for eid occasions.

Cakes & Sweets on Eid
Eid after Ramadan or eid-ul-fitr is also called sweet eid because on this day, sweets are made at home. So cakes and sweets are also a good option for sending eid gifts to your loved ones. Traditional sweet are easily available every where in the world and cakes of many designs and tastes can be selected. Karanchi Halwa, Sewaiyan, China Burki, Patisa, Baklava and Kesar Burfi are some of the most popular sweets related to the occassion. Buy a nice gift wrapped box of any of these delicious items. You can even cook some "Sevai/Semoi" or "Punjeeri" at home, carefully pack it and hand over as a sweet gift to your loved ones.

Apparels
Apparels are popular gift items for almost every festival. Eid is the time when everyone goes on to purchase new clothes and you can safely gift new apparels to your dear ones. Go for traditional chikan kurtas and sherwanis for men and suits, sarees, lehengas or shararas for women. If you are adventurous, you can even buy some jeans and casual cotton wear for male members and designer apparels for young women. It is a good idea to gift white clothes, which symbolize peace.

Dry Fruits & Chocolates
You can get readymade boxes of dry fruits and chocolates in the local markets. Get these wrapped in beautiful wrapping papers, add a greeting card onto it with a personal message and send it off!

Money/Eidi
You can always fall back on this primitive gift if you feel all else are going to be a damper. Besides, your little cousins and the kids in your family will always be expecting their eidi. Hence you should keep some extra bucks as well as envelopes close to you. Put the money inside the envelopes, write the names of your recipients on each of them and hand over.