Eid Adha - one of the two Muslim celebration

obmar · Eid Adha - one of the two Muslim celebration

Starts tonite.

and during Eid the Takbeer is sung.

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The Malaysian version

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Mosques all over the wiorld today chants this

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Simple gestures.

Today I started the morning after dawn prayers, then bathed, and dressup nicely to go to the mosque for EID Prayers. I was quite early so I did the optional Tahiyatul masjid prayer, followed by the prayer of repentance. The crowd started to come in.

They started the Takbeer, Allah Hu Akhbar Allah...
until four men lead the takbeer.

Then the Eid Prayers, followed by the summons.

After that there was an announcement that all are invited to join the Qurban/ Sacrifice. This is an optional act, the price for qurban here is 350RM about 100USD per lamb. Here 7 lambs is equivalent to one catlle. Bring your knives to share help strip the meat from the slaughtered animal.

Normally, the meat is weighted, and packed and coupons distributed to exchange with the meat. each family in the neighbourhood receives a kilo or two or even more, depending on how many animals were slaughtered.

Priority is for the needy and the poor the unfortunate, orphans and single mothers, but normally there is enough to see that every household also receives it.

The meat is then cooked, and feasted among family members

Some places instead of distributing fresh meat, would cook the emat and distribute curry dishes instead.

Normally the rich and well to do will be the ones that donated the animal to be slaughtered.

Of late there are also practice to just remit the amount into a bank account where the actual slaughtering would be carried out in less fortunate areas like Kampuchea, Acheh, Sri Langka Mindanao
where the meat gets into people that really needed them.

Some donates every eid adha, some every few years.
It is not compulsory and more a community gesture to the less fortunate.

We may now take meat for granted. There are still communities that taste meat only once in a few months or a year/

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Source: http://uruknet.info/?p=m39370&hd=&size=1&l=e

*Eid Al-Adha falls on 20 December in 2007.

Abraham said, "My son, I had a vision of myself offering you in sacrifice. What is your response?" [Ishmael] said, "Do as you are commanded and, God willing, you will find me patient and steadfast." (Qur'an, 37:102)

"I sacrifice my soul and my existence for you and among you for the sake of our precious Palestine and our beloved, patient and suffering Iraq." (President Saddam Hussein in a letter to a Jordanian friend, August 2005)

In the night
of Eid Al-Adha
my beloved
soul brother
Saddam
was carried up
a dank, dark stairway
to the place of sacrifice -
the threshold
of a watered garden
as wide as the heavens.

Though his limbs
were bound and shackled,
the brown lion
did not roar
in anguish and rage,
nor was there any fear in him.
He was as docile as a lamb
resting in green pastures
for the Lord was his shepherd.

Though he loved life,
Iraq's hero
did not flinch
from the path of martyrdom –
for the sake of his beloved,
patient, suffering
homeland
he embraced it.

His surrendered heart
was girded with fortitude,
cleansed
by the waters of peace
and gifted with love.

Moments before
his neck was broken,
he greeted his creator
with the smile
I miss so much.

Allah is the protector
of those who have faith.
From the depths of darkness
he leads them forth into light. (Qur'an, 2:257)

Our Lord, pour steadfastness upon us
and let us die in devotion to you. (Qur'an, 7:126)

Alison Gundle
Leicester, UK