Eid al-Adha (Arabic: عيد
الأضحى ʿīd al-aḍḥā, [ʕiːd
ælˈʔɑdˤħæ]), also called the Feast of Sacrifice (Turkish: Kurban Bayramı;Malay:
Hari Raya Korban; Persian: عید
قربان Eid Ghorban;
Bengali: কোরবানি ইদ Qurbani Eid), the Greater
Eid or Baqar-Eid (Urdu:بقر
عید baqr `īd; Kurdish: جێژنی قوربان Cejna Qurbanê), is the second of two
religious holidays celebrated by Muslims worldwide each year.
It honors the
willingness of Abraham (Ibrahim) to sacrifice his son, 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. The meat from the
sacrificed animal is preferred to be divided into three parts. The family
retains one third of the share; another third is given to relatives, friends
and neighbors; and the remaining third is given to the poor and needy.
In the lunar-based Islamic calendar, Eid al-Adha falls on
the 10th day of Dhu al-Hijjah and lasts for four days. In the international
(Gregorian) calendar, the dates vary from year to year, drifting approximately
11 days earlier each year.
Eid al-Adha is the latter of the two Eid holidays, the
former being Eid al-Fitr. The basis for the observance comes from the 196thayah
(verse) of Al-Baqara, the second sura of the Quran.The word "Eid"
appears once in Al-Ma'ida, the fifth sura of the Quran, with the meaning
"solemn festival".
Like Eid al-Fitr, Eid al-Adha begins with a Sunnah prayer of
two rakats followed by a sermon (khutbah). Eid al-Adha celebrations start after
the descent of the Hujjaj, the pilgrims performing the Hajj, from Mount Arafat,
a hill east of Mecca. Eid sacrifice may take place until sunset on the 13th day
of Dhu al-Hijjah. The days of Eid have been singled out in the Hadith as
"days of remembrance". The takbir (days) of Tashriq are from the Fajr
prayer of the 9th of Dhu al-Hijjah up to the Asr prayer of the 13th of Dhu
al-Hijjah (5 days and 4 nights). This equals 23 prayers: 5 on the 9th–12th,
which equals 20, and 3 on the 13th.
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