What to Write in an Eid Card

"Eid Mubarak" carries most of the card on its own. What follows depends on who is opening it, and the difference between a card for your grandmother and one for a client is mostly a matter of length.

For family

Eid Mubarak.
May this Eid bring peace to your home and ease to the year ahead.
Missing you at the table this year.

Family cards can name the absence - who is not there, who is far away. That line is usually the reason the card gets kept.

For friends

Eid Mubarak!
Wishing you a day of good food, better company, and no washing up.

Lighter is fine here. A card between friends can be funny in a way a card to an elder cannot.

For colleagues

Eid Mubarak.
Wishing you and your family a peaceful and joyful Eid.

Short and warm. If you are sending to colleagues who do not celebrate Eid, a line explaining what the day is turns a greeting into a small act of hospitality rather than an assumption.

For clients

Eid Mubarak from all of us at Meridian.
Thank you for a good year of working together. We hope the holiday brings you rest.

One line of thanks, one good wish, and the company name. A client card that reads as marketing is worse than no card. Outside Eid, the same restraint works on a thank you card to a client at the end of a project.

Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha

The greeting is the same for both, and most cards are used for either. Where you want to distinguish them, a card for Eid al-Fitr can mention the end of the fast, and one for Eid al-Adha the spirit of sacrifice and sharing - but neither is expected.

Writing in Urdu or Arabic

Every Eid card here switches to Nastaliq, Amiri or Naskh in the editor, and the layout flips to right-to-left with the line spacing those scripts need. Keep lines short: Nastaliq in particular needs vertical room, and a long line set in it becomes hard to read at card size.