It honors the willingness of Abraham (Ibrahim) to sacrifice his promised son, Ishmael, as an act of submission to God’s command, before God then intervened, through his angel Jibra’il and informs him that his sacrifice has already been accepted.
Hamzah Khan, graphic design junior, was only four-years-old, but still remembers those days back in Pakistan when he and his family went to a market to buy a goat.
It is not uncommon during these days to see city residents pulling a cow or a buffalo in the city’ s major streets and alleys, as numerous residents are returning home bringing with them the sacrificial animals that they bought from the markets.
The Eid date has been a bone of contention over the years with mosques following different schools of thought.
Students who plan to attend Eid prayers and miss classes may have to coordinate with their professors in advance, or risk falling behind at the onset of the new quarter.
The religious leader explained that Eid’l Adha is the second of two religious holidays celebrated by Muslims worldwide each year.
The festival coincides with the annual Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca which memorializes the event.
Between 45,000 and 50,000 guests will travel during Eid Al Adha with the busiest travel day expected to be Saturday, 26 September. The prophet Muhammad said that a person who performs Hajj properly “will return as a newly born baby [free of all sins]”. However, Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Health has recommended that certain groups postpone the performance of the Hajj and Umrah because of the risk of MERS infection.
Worshippers will slaughter an animal, typically a sheep or a goat, during Greater Eid celebrations as a symbol of Ibrahim’s sacrifice to Allah. But sellers attributed the higher prices of the sacrificial animals to the less imports from neighboring India. In the morning, people will hold a mass Eid prayer together, which serves to reconnect neighbors and friends who may have not had time to meet and talk otherwise.
Bashua added they still hope that a comprehensive national dialogue will take place, pointing that recent meetings of the rebel umbrella Sudan Revolutionary Front (SRF) in Paris has given new breath for achieving peace in Darfur and throughout Sudan.