Eid Al-Adha
This Friday ( 07/31/2020), All Muslims around the world will celebrate our 2nd 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 over the boy's throat, preventing the sacrifice. Ibrahim, astonished to see his son unharmed, was praised for his devotion and willingness to surrender himself to Allah. Eid al-Adha is one of the holiest celebrations in Islam and marks the end of the Hajj, the annual pilgrimage to the holy city of Mecca in Saudi Arabia which must be undertaken once in a lifetime all physically and financially capable Muslims.
The best greeting:
Eid Mubarak
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