Salaam everyone and a very warm Eid Mubarak to you all!

Eid Al-Adha is due to arrive this weekend and we thought it would be nice to share the meaning behind this, for who aren’t so sure.

Eid Al-Adha actually translates to ‘the feast (or festival) of sacrifice’, which Muslims commemorate the willingness of Prophet Ibrahim (Abraham) to sacrifice his Son Ismael (Ishmael) as an act of obedience and order from Allah (God). As Ibrahim was about to perform this gesture towards, Allah intervened replacing Ismael with a Ram, which was sacrificed instead. We are to sacrifice an animal, such as a Goat, Cow, Sheep etc in the name of God, where we would then split the meat into 3 portions, one for your direct family, one for relatives and the final third for the poor.

This Eid always falls on the 10th day of the 12th and last Islamic month of the Islamic calendar, just after Hajj.

For more on Eid and to find out the meaning of Eid Al-Fitr please click the link below or scroll down.

http://www.muslimandsingle.com/blog/index.php/news/eid-mubarak