Hari Raya Haji or Hari Raya Aidiladha

About 60.4% of the population in Malaysia were celebrated the Hari Raya Haji yesterday. It was the Muslim religious day.

Hari Raya Haji also know as Hari Raya Aidiladha; Hari Qurban; Hari Kurban or Eid al-adha. It was a public holiday in Malaysia.

Mostly the Malays coffee shops, road side stalls, food courts and restaurants were closed for this festival. Somehow, there were a few Malays shops which open for business in this festive.

In Pulau Pinang state, the public holiday fell on Sunday this year. So today Monday, holiday still on. However the Malays states such as kedah, Perak, Kelantan, Pahang, Terengganu, Johor, Perlis and Negeri Sembilan... they had more holidays since Thursday.

In Malaysia, any public holiday is enjoying by all the enthic group. Foreign and local shopping mall, coffee shop, food courts, restaurants were full with people eating and shopping. Some even took this holiday go for vacation.

In the morning, all the men, women and children bath and wore the new clothings and went to the mosque to do the Eid prayers. Talks also will be given in the mosque. They used the loudspeakers, and of course it could be heard from anywhere, especially in the open air of the village or kampung.

Some foreign workers such as Bangladesh muslim, Pakistan muslim also went to the mosque in the morning for the Eid prayer.

Yesterday many areas had the heavy rain, so mostly muslim took the car to the mosque but some also used the motor cycles or bicycles. It seemed they were in the rush to reached some where.

Many cars just parked at the road side, mostly violated for the car parking procedure. When passed through the road which near to mosque need to be careful. Traffic was jammed in certain time.

Drivers worried to hit the car or hit the walking people. Most of the times the zebra cross not being used, looked like no function, cause the people preferred the no zebra cross area in certain places.

After the Eid prayers, muslim will sacrifice the good and best domestic animals such as cows and goats. Sacrifice ceremony must be done properly. The meat have to give to the poor and hungry people, so that they can enjoy the festival together. The remain meat will be cook for the families members to eat.

After the prayers, some spent the time in the shopping malls too or do the window shopping.

At market and on raod sides, the Malay hawkers also sell the' daun palas '. Daun palas is a long leaves from a Licuala palm trees species. The cake named was ' Ketupat daun palas ' and it needed to weave and boil the ready made glutinuos rice packet into the water.

Here the Muslim hawker sold the beef on the road side and market; also could be seen the muslim sold the 'lemang'. It is rice in the bamboo. The coconut milk glutinuos rice had to be put into the inner layer of the bamboo and it has been previously put on the banana leaves. Then arranged it one by one and bake it with fire in the open air until cooked

It was also the time for the relatives and friends to visit each other and eat the new year biscuits and cakes or others traditional Malays food.