December 12, 2012
DUHOK, Kurdistan region 'Iraq',— As followers of Yazidi faith are preparing –in Kurdistan and Iraq as well as other parts of the world- their fasting occasion ceremonies and the celebrity in "Eizi" Eid, families complain about the high prices.
The Yazidi media activist, Loqman Sulaiman said that "majority of Yazidis in Kurdistan as well as around the globe will perform their three-day fasting tonight, the fourth day will be 'Eid', we call it the 'Eizi fasting Eid'", explaining that "according to Yazidis' ideology, the fasting happen to be at the shortest day-long days of the year, the choice shows significant meaning which should be considered by scientists and researchers".
Sulaiman went on saying that "the ceremonies of the occasion hold in 'Lalesh' tomb , 48 km eastern Duhok", explaining that "each Yazidi family supposed to slaughter a sheep, a cow or a hen, one day before the fasting days, because meat will be the main dish in breaking the fast meals during the next three days ".
This years' Eizi fasting occasion happens to be on Dec. 11-13, so next Friday will be announced as their 'Eid'.
Khdeda Merza, a primary school teacher told Shafaq News that "all Yazidis turn happy at his Eid, regardless of spiritual rites of the Eid, poor people should be helped financially by those whom are capable of doing so" adding, "paying part of the money been paid for purchasing a lot amount of high quality food and clothes deserved to be paid to those poor people".
Nazdar Qasim, a housewife said that "housewives are the most tired people during this occasion as they handle majority of house-related-work i.e. cooking food and desserts,www.Ekurd.net shopping clothes for the children" adding that "it also results in affecting the family's budget knowing that merchants and store-owners exploit the occasion to raise prices".
It is worth to mention that Yazidis faith belongs to ancient Kurdish religions, all of the religious rituals are chanted in Kurdish language.
Unofficial statistics stated that there are 600,000 Yazidis in Iraq majority reside in Nineveh and Kurdistan's Duhok provinces, Yazidis also inhabit in parts of Syria, Turkey, Georgia and Armenia as well as Europe in particular Germany, but their population is unknown.
The Yazidi (Yezidi or Êzidî) are a Kurdish ethnoreligious group with Indo-Iranian roots. They currently live primarily in the Nineveh Province of northern Iraq. Additional communities in Transcaucasia, Armenia, Turkey, and Syria have been in decline since the 1990s, their members having emigrated to Europe, especially to Germany.
Their religion, Yazidism, is a branch of Yazdânism, and is seen as a highly syncretic complex of local Kurdish beliefs that contains Zoroastrian elements and Islamic Sufi doctrine introduced to the area by Sheikh Adi ibn Musafir in the 12th century. The Yazidi believe in God as creator of the world, which he placed under the care of seven holy beings or angels, the chief of whom is Melek Taus, the Peacock Angel.
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The same merchants' business for Ramadan and Christmas… Religion and trade are twins for ever.
All the same, Happy Eizi to all Yezidis, poor or wealthy ! Cejna Eizi pîroz be !
