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al-Adha The Day of ‘Arafah is the second day of the Hajj pilgrimagei
It comes the day before Eid al-Adha, which coincides with the third day of Hajj.
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ismillah er Rahman er Rahim [ In the Name of Allah, The One Who Acts with Mercy,The Source of Mercy].
All praise belongs to Allah. May Allah’s peace and blessings be on Prophet Muhammad and his family and on all the other prophets and their families. #EidAlAdha #EidMubarak

The Hajj pilgrimage is based on a reenactment of at least three events in the story of Prophet Abraham (pbuh). To sum them up, first: Abraham leaves Hagar and the infant Ishmael in the remote, barren desert.

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...after their water runs out, Hagar in desperation runs seven times between
two hills, an act that is now done by pilgrims as an essential ritual of the Hajj.
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Second, Abraham
returns some years later and, with Ishmael, builds the Ka’aba there as a house for worshipping Allah.

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Third, Abraham gets a dream that seems to suggest he should sacrifice his beloved son.
(Though the Bible says it was Isaac, in Muslim tradition, people say it was Ishmael, Abraham’s first-born son. The Qur’an does not specify who it was).

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Abraham is described in the Qur’an as “softhearted and gentle” (Qur’an, 9:114), so this third event was an indescribable test for him. Believing this is what Allah was commanding him to do, he got himself ready to surrender by actually physically sacrificing his son. #EidAlAdha

He couldn’t do it without his
son’s consent, so he consulted him. The youth replied, “go ahead and do what you are
commanded” (see Qur’an 37:102).

Abraham was about to cut his son’s throat, when Allah interrupted him with the words ya Ibrahim, qad saddaqta al-ru’ya (Qur’an 37:103-104). “O Abraham, you have fulfilled the truth of the dream.”
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The ram is a symbolic
substitute for the ego and the attachments we have to give up in order to be in a closer relationship with Allah .Killing an animal doesn’t give anything to Allah, feed Him or increase His power...
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.....The meat goes to relatives, neighbors, friends and the poor. The Qur’an confirms this in the verse that says “Their flesh and their blood does not reach Allah but the taqwa [devotion] from you reaches Him.” (22:37)
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Eid al-Adha was first celebrated in the Muslim community of Medina in the second year of
Hijra, when the community of immigrants from Mecca were struggling with being displaced
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By coinciding with the third day of Hajj (when the animals are sacrificed by the pilgrims), the
holiday was a virtual hajj, a way of connecting to the spirit of Mecca and hajj without being
able to physically go there.
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Religion is all virtual doors to the REAL. The doors are virtual, the real is Haqq; the danger of religion is that we confuse them. When we don’t recognize that Allah speaks in many different creations..
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words and signs that have different levels and layers, we make religion to be what we think or assume it is, or what we want it to be And then it is incomplete.
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People with great intentions of being good and obedient can take the sacrifice mentality to places that Allah never told people to go. But we are talking (especially on the day of ‘Arafah) about Allah having completed the religion and I think there is a Sufi meaning of this...

We need to really think about these things in a day when so many of the world’s conflicts and
hatreds stem from interpretations of the same stories”.
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Prophet Jesus, pbuh, warned about this, reminding his followers about a verse that also appears in the older biblical text of Hosea: “I desire Mercy, not sacrifice,What does it mean to be obedient to Allah without being able to understand His language of signs, symbols, hints?

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