Eid Al-Adha
This Friday ( 07/31/2020), All Muslims around the world will celebrate our 2 nd annual festival. I am sharing with you a brief summary telling you more about this Festival: The Meaning: Eid Al-Adha translates as “Festival of Sacrifice” and is actually bigger or better celebrated than the Eid after Ramadan, so it is also called Eid Kabir – “Big Eid.” The Belief: Eid al-Adha, or 'the feast of the sacrifice', is the second Eid festival of the calendar year, which honors Ibrahim's commitment to God when ordered to offer up his only son - not named in the Qu'ran as Ismail but widely accepted in Islamic literature as so - as a sacrifice. As he prepared to carry out the act, Satan appeared to Ibrahim attempting to deter him from his task, but the devout man threw stones to repel the devil. At the last second, God sent the angel Jibra'il to replace the boy with a ram. In other versions of the story, the knife is flipped out of Ibrahim's hand or copper appears