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What
Eid al-Adha Means In Islam?
What’s the Eid al-Adha?
Eid al-Adha is
one of the two main occasions for Muslim to celebrate. The occasion is to share
those who went for pilgrimage to Makka each year. Three million people gathered
this year to perform the fifth principle in Muslim Faith. After Shahadatayn,
prayer, fasting and giving alms or Zakat. Muslim have
to eat meat (Sheep, Cows, and checkens, but not pork).
Are you one of
the people who eat meat occasionally? I’m not that fond of it. May be I am like
you, don’t hate it but I eat only the
amounts I need to provide myself with the essentials my body needs and which
cannot be replaced by vegetables or fruits (no matter how hard scientists try
to prove the opposite). Hey dear vegetarians don’t hate me, I respect you, I
just don’t believe joining you is the right thing to do.
Anyway let me get back to Eid Al Adha, which means the “Fest of Sacrifice”.
Muslims celebrate it in remembrance of the story of prophet Ibrahim. As you
know God tests us all the time. And God wanted Ibrahim to prove his strong
belief in him by checking if he’d do anything for the love of God. So God asked
him to kill his own son, which is something impossible normally, and which was
so harsh on Ibrahim, but still he chose to fulfill God’s will and sacrifice his
son. But the minute he was about to kill his son, God replaced the boy with a
sheep to be killed instead of the boy as a reward for his strong belief,
proving once again that God tests our faith but is never willing to hurt us.
A lot might laugh at this story, but it’s serious, actually a lot of normal
people test others’ loyalty towards them in different ways. Men test women’s
love, women test men’s loyalty, kids test their family's appreciation, friends
test each other’s trust… etc. Some ways could be reasonable like for example a
father asking his son to stop smoking to show his love for his dad, or a mother
asking her little girl to eat all her dish to prove her love for her mom. And
some are silly, like a woman asking her husband to
sell the dearest thing he has just to prove his love for her. Or a guy asking a
girl to forget about the whole world and run away with him to a new place where
he has no life and no future at all, just to prove her love for him... But the
difference between God’s testing and people’s testing
is that God just tests and isn’t waiting for things to actually happen, and God
rewards without you even doing the thing. God wants nothing in return. But
people, we ask, we want things to be done our way, and then we’re just
“pleased”. No rewards but a “thank you” that might not even come from the
bottom of the heart.
Now back to Eid Al Adha.
I don’t know why a lot of people believe they’re animal friends and call for
the rights of animals and all, when they actually aren’t any different from
those who eat animal meat.
We all eat, some eat everything, some eat only
vegetables, or fruits or serials. The thing is when you eat vegetables you are
eating living creatures as well. And if something doesn’t have eyes nor legs, or if it doesn’t have a mouth, that doesn’t mean
it’s dead! Plants are alive, they have souls, they have families, a grand tree,
a baby plant … they’re just like all other living
creatures.
And God has created us all to live together and improve. Animals eat plants and
other animals and sometimes humans. And Humans eat plants and animals (and
sometimes humans, lol, just kidding) and some plants eat other plants and
insects and live on the rest of dead bodies. We’re all created as a natural
circle.
Yet the difference between what God asked us to do and
what people are actually doing is what destroyed the balance of nature. God
asked us to be good to other creatures, care for them and when we need them, we
should do our best not to hurt them.
You shouldn’t cut off the leaves of a plant for fun, you shouldn’t burn it and
you should use it in a gentle way. Just like animals, you shouldn’t torture
them and you shouldn’t use them in a bad way. So no negative use, but you can
still use them.
“I will not eat
meat. I don’t want to have Mad Cow Disease”, anyone who says this has the right
to be scared, but the problem wont be solved that way.
We wouldn’t have got Mad Cow Disease nor Birds’ flue or any other animal
disease if we took the right precautions before eating their meat.
Which brings us to the issue of slaughter. When you
find the word “Halal” written on the animal meat, it means it was slaughtered
following Islam’s instructions, which are: taking a healthy animal (sheep,cow, chicken..), then saying: “In the name of God the
Merciful” to it (yes you should talk to it to calm it down and show respect to
its soul as well as mercy for its body) and then quickly cut a certain vein in
a certain point in the neck. And if you make a quick research you’ll find out
that it’s the best way for both the animal and the human, why? For the animal
because it’s so quick, and hits the point where pain is felt the least, so it
doesn’t hurt the animal at all, opposite to using electric shocks and stuff
which leaves the animal suffering before it’s dead. And good for the humans
because this cut vein releases excess old blood (following scientific pressure
rules) leaving the body with only pure fresh blood that was newly generated and
that will be easily took out of the body while cooking. Oh, and last but not
least, the released blood should be cleaned away.
So meat isn’t the cause of the diseases we hear of, no, it’s us who caused
those diseases because we can’t just stop messing with nature. And instead of
asking your kids and beloved ones to stop eating meat, show them the right way
to take care of animals, feed them right, preserve the balance of nature and
know how to use the environment in the best way ever.
A reminder to all readers in the world
Eid Al Adha is an occasion to remember God’s mercy and the devotion and faith
of the believers. It’s an occasion to share the poor and give them a chance to
eat meat that they can’t afford. If you can afford buying a sheep, then never
forget to donate as much as you can for the poor, this is the spirit of Eid Al
Adha, it’s not about showing off nor stuffing yourself with different meat
dishes. And make sure you use appropriate places for the purpose of
slaughtering, and streets aren’t the place for sure.
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Updated: Sunday, 27 September 2009 12:44 PM EDT
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