The Spirit of Eid ul Adha

Eid-ul-Adha is also known as Baqra Eid (baqrah means cow). It is celebrated in the memory of the sacrifice of Hazrat Ibrahim (A.S) and Hazrat Ismail (A.S).

There is a real story behind this which goes somethings like: “Once, to check Hazrat Ibrahim (A.S)’s obedience, Allah SWT decided to take a test. When Hazrat Ibrahim (A.S) was asleep, Allah SWT ordered him in his dream to sacrifice his son. Hazrat Ibrahim (A.S), after getting up in the morning, narrated his dream to his son. Hazrat Ismail (A.S) quickly replied “father, if Allah has ordered you to do so, then I am ready to be sacrificed”. The obedient son laid down and his father blindfolded himself so he wouldn’t get distracted. Juts when he was about to sacrifice his son, Allah SWT replaced his son with a sheep. As a result, the sheep got sacrificed.”

Allah SWT became so happy with the obedience of Prophet that he labelled his act as sunnah. This sunnah was later followed by the last messenger of Allah. Thus it is now widely followed by the muslims all over the world as sunnat-e-Ibrahimi. Eid-ul-Adha is celebrated on the first day on 10th of Zilhajj every year.

The actual spirit of the occassion is when people buy animals for sacrifice. They bring them home and take care of them as a baby. Try to provide a better environment and proper food to them. Some like to show off their animals to their friends. It is mainly called the Eid of boys just because boys have to do all the work. Later, 70% animals get sacrificed and on the second day, 20% are sacrificed. The remaining 10% of the animals are of the people that cannot afford food for their animal. So, they prefer sacrificing on the third day. We savor every bite of the animals we bought.