A divine saw a king’s servant playing a violin. He grabbed the violin from him and broke it.
The servant complained to the king and said, “Today he broke my violin. Tomorrow he may belittle a minister or you.”
The king was enraged. He called for the divine and had a violin by his side. The divine came to the court. The king did not say anything to the divine but picked up the violin and started playing it. The divine just kept sitting unhappily.
The king said, “You broke my servant’s violin yesterday, why do you not break mine today?”
The divine answered, “Mighty King, the Holy Prophet, may peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, has said, if you see evil, and you have strength, use it to bring about reform. If you do not have the ability to do that then try to stop it through speech. If you do not have even that much courage then at least feel bad in your heart. Mighty King, yesterday I could reform evil using strength so I broke the violin of the servant. But today I do not have the strength to counter evil with strength, neither can I dare to counter it with speech and advice, but O mighty king, I am feeling averse to it in my heart.”
I have read a piece from the works of an American poet. She has related a fine subject in her poetry. She says, after my death when I will be in the presence of God, the rich will present before God the diamonds and pearls that they would have given away in charity. The public servants will present their service before Him that they would have rendered to their nation and they will say that is what they did. I will be watching with dismay sitting alone that I did not have any wealth to distribute, to give in alms; neither did I have power or knowledge that I would have served my country and nation with, but I would have shed tears in the love of God and they will be lying near His throne. I will present that gift to Him. And, O reader, do you know whose gift will be accepted by Him? He will accept the gift of my tears.”
A Muslim, in the same way … can shed tears falling at the throne of the Almighty. If Muslims can do this then this is their Eid. Otherwise, the Eid is not the real Eid.