For many of us, wishing our near and dear ones, who live abroad, Eid Mubarak, is an important part of Eid celebrations. One can do it by calling your brother up in England, sending an eid greeting to your aunt in America or forwarding an e-greeting to your pal in Singapore. Indeed, Internet has made it easy, and much cheaper, for all of us to say Eid Mubarak to the ones who really matter.
Remember the time when one had to go to the post office and wait in a long queue to post eid cards to family and friends during Ramazan? And then the post office used to announce that no more mail could be taken even weeks before eid and the mail which was taken seldom got on time? However, much of all this has changed since the virtual world made it easier quicker and convenient to perform all these tasks. Very few people prefer to write and make the tiring journey to the mail box and mail the letters or greeting cards to their loved ones, far from them. Thanks to the digital age, and greetings card web sites one can send a letter or an eid card anywhere in the world, even at the very last moment.
The holy month of Ramazan unites all Muslims in fasting, feasting, worship and prayer. It is a time for contemplation, spirituality and brotherhood. www.ramadan-cards.com and www. eidgreetings.com are the two sites dedicated to Ramazan greetings and the Eid greetings. But other than these, the sites also offer beautiful greetings for Nouroz and Eid-i-Milad-un-Nabi and have a very sweet Good Friday cards section as well.
Still if you are looking for a site dedicated only to eid greetings, then www.eidmubarak.com is the place for you. At this address you can not only find very beautiful eid cards, but also prayer times, local weather, and Ramazan calendar according to local area time. This Eid the site has a special funny Ramazan and Eid greeting from George Bush, which is really worth seeing for George Bush too is getting help from the card designer. The site also offers a special feature through which you can share special moments by sending a family picture, graduation picture or just about any image stored on your computer in the form of a greeting card. You can add music, background, and even apply special effects to these images. And if you are that forgetful type who forgets birthdays and special occasions, then this site is the online place for you. It also has a scheduled cards section in which you can schedule the dates and send cards and the card will be sent on the date you have set it to be sent on.
www.101eid.com is a site dedicated only to the biggest festival of Islam — of course we are talking of Eid. This site not only has its unique collection of eid greeting cards, where you can also add music and send them to multiple people at the same time. At the same time, it also has a selection of eid recipes. Other than the usual stuff, the site also contains a section where the significance of Eid is written in detail. Things and practices that are described as Sunnah as well as the method of saying your Eid prayers, all are here.
Eid is a time of joy and happiness, especially when fasting is over and one can eat whatever and with whomever he or she wants to. www.pakrecipes.com offers many easy and tasty recipes for Eid day as well as Iftar. But other than the recipes it also has a greeting cards section for Eid and other occasions. The cards are in English as well as in Urdu. So enjoy the recipes while sending a tasty card to your loved ones. The site also advises about healthy eating during Ramazan. Offering cards in Urdu as well as with beautiful poetry and verses in Urdu, www.pakicards.com and www.desiecards.com are the desi sites to see. There are options like adding an emoticon, coloured text, a different background of your choice, an effect, a wallpaper of the whole page and the layout of your choice in the card you want to send. When a card is sent through these sites, the user has an option where the sender can request a confirmation receipt so that it is confirmed that your card has conveyed your message.
To add a more traditional and religious look to your cards, you can send e-greetings in Arabic as well, and for this purpose, there are quite a few Arabic sites that offer religious as well as cards for occasions like Ramazan on the Net. These include, arabiccards.com, arabji.com and shuf.com, sites that offer beautifully designed cards in Arabic. These sites also have religious cards which contain Quranic verses and look devinely beautiful.
“The three ‘I’s, ‘Islam’, ‘Information’ and the ‘Internet’ are going to have a profound and global impact on society in the 21st century.” This is according to the people taking care of www.islam.com. The site is dedicated to promoting understanding of Islam and Muslims by providing accurate, unbiased and balanced information. It also has a very beautifully designed eid greeting cards gallery where there are many cards to choose from.
According to www.islamcan.com, over 20,000 greeting cards are sent through its links every Eid. Not only this, but the site contains the largest collection of short Islamic stories on the Internet. The site also has links, such as Miracles of Allah and Signs of Allah. There is also a whole list of Muslim names, for the newborns and the newly converted Muslims. It also has articles, lectures and online quizzes on Islam as well.
So next time you think about sending an eid greeting to your loved ones, far from you and don’t want to stand in queue to post it, try these sites and show them that they are remembered on this special time of the year. Wishing you a happy Eid.
For many of us, wishing our near and dear ones, who live abroad, Eid Mubarak, is an important part of Eid celebrations. One can do it by calling your brother up in England, sending an eid greeting to your aunt in America or forwarding an e-greeting to your pal in Singapore. Indeed, Internet has made it easy, and much cheaper, for all of us to say Eid Mubarak to the ones who really matter.
