Eid ul Adha commences on the 10th day of Dhul Hijjah. For those who are not at the pilgrimage, it begins with an extra early morning prayer performed in congregation, called the Eid prayer. It is a time of celebration, a time to visit family and friends and thank God for all the blessings He has bestowed upon us. It demands contact with relatives, kindness to family and neighbours, and empathy and compassion for the poor. Above all Eid ul Adha reminds us that God is great and that He is the source of all bounties. Through the good times and the trying times God is the source of all comfort and all peace, and submission to Him brings the greatest benefits of all.
Making the pilgrimage is often called following in the footsteps of Ibrahim. This is due to the fact that the rituals involved in the pilgrimage replicate many of the events in Prophet Ibrahim’s life. Eid ul Adha commemorates a specific trial in the life of Ibrahim. He was commanded by God to sacrifice, his son Ishmael. Eid ul Adha occurs on the 10th day of Dhul Hijjah, the day on which most of the Hajj rites have been preformed and the pilgrims slaughter an animal to honour Prophet Ibrahim’s obedience to God.
“Surely Ibrahim was an example, obedient to God, by nature upright, and he was not of the polytheists. He was grateful for Our bounties. We chose him and guided him unto a right path. We gave him good in this world, and in the next he will most surely be among the righteous.” (Quran 16:120-121)
In a divinely inspired dream, Ibrahim saw himself sacrificing his son Ishmael. All members of Ibrahim’s family demonstrated complete trust in God, therefore Ibrahim revealed the dream to Ishmael. He readily agreed that his father must carry out the command of God. Together they went to the place of sacrifice and offered Ishmael’s life to God. Ibrahim prepared to sacrifice his beloved son. At this point the shaytaan (satan) tempted Ibrahim trying to make him disobey God, but Ibrahim resisted and drove the shaytaan away. Ibrahim looked down at his son for what he believed was the last time but as the blade came close to Ishmael’s neck God stayed his hand and revealed that there was no need for Ibrahim to continue. His sacrifice had already been fulfilled.
Giving up something big for the sake of God, such as the life of your child, must seem like a huge and unimaginable sacrifice. Today even going without something small, such as a cup of coffee, to donate the money to charity seems like a large sacrifice. Try to imagine how Ibrahim must have felt as he held the blade above his child’s neck. In the last moment he was relieved of his duty to follow God’s commands. Having complete trust in God, knowing with certainty that God knows and wants what is best for us is often difficult, but it should not be.
“…And whosoever fears God and keeps his duty to Him, He will make a way for him to get out (from every difficulty). And He will provide him from (sources) he never could imagine….” (Quran 65:2-3)
God replaced Ishmael with a sheep and it is for this reason that Muslims sacrifice an animal on the celebration of Eid ul Adha; however it is more than a celebration, it is a reminder. We are reminded of our own submission to the will of God. Those Muslim’s who are not making the pilgrimage and who can afford it sacrifice an animal in remembrance of Prophet Ibrahim’s test.
“Their meat will not reach Allah, nor will their blood, but what reaches Him is piety from you….” (Quran 22:37)
The act of animal sacrifice is often misunderstood. God has no need for the blood or the meat; in fact God has no need for any of our acts of worship. However for our own benefit God commands us to turn to Him and obey Him. God looks for our piety, our goodness and our charity. The animal sacrificed is usually a sheep, a goat or a cow.
Distributing the meat from the sacrifice of Eid al-Adha strengthens many of our efforts to please God with our piety. Usually, a portion is eaten by the immediate family and relatives, a portion is given away to friends and neighbours and a portion is donated to the poor. The act symbolizes our willingness to give up our bounties to strengthen ties of kinship and friendship and our enthusiasm to give up things that are of benefit to us in order to help those who are in need. In the sacrifice we recognize that all blessings come from God.
The sacrifice is one of the rituals of Islam, and one of the greatest closeness and obedience to God Almighty is a revival of the Sunnah of God’s Prophet Abraham, who embodied all the meanings of obedience, when his Lord commanded him to slaughter his son Ishmael, so he responded to the command of God without hesitation before the Lord Almighty redeemed him with a great “ram
Q&A: Ishmael or Isaac - Who Was To Be Sacrificed? | Dr. Shabir Ally
Praise be to Allah, the Lord of the Worlds; and blessings and peace be upon our Prophet Muhammad and upon all his Family and Companions. The sacrificed son was Ismael. The evidence for that is first, that Allah, the Almighty promised Abraham (PPBUH) and his wife that he could give them a son whose name was Isaac and that, that son would have a son whose name was Yacoub. So, this implies that Isaac was to grow up and have a child Yacoub. And Allah does not break His promise. The other evidence is that this story happened in Makkah and it is known that Isaac (PPBUH) and his mother Sarah never came to Makkah. But Abraham (PPBUH) and his wife Hajar (Ismael's mother ) were exiled to Makkah because of Sarah's jelousy from Hajar.
Ishmael is the son of Ibrahim who was chosen by his father to sacrifice him as established by the Quran, the Sunnah, and a number of proofs which are notorious. Moreover, the Torah, which is in the hands of the "people of the Book", confirms this. The ancient scriptures say in fact: "slaughter your only son." The other translation speaks of a firstborn. Ishmael was indeed the only son at that time and the firstborn of the Patriarch unanimously among Muslim and Jewish scholars, but the latter falsified their writings by including Isaac. Later, other people took from them this information, the origin of which is from the falsified Hebrew Texts; that the child in question was Isaac.
the Bible in addition to being fundamentally unreliable in the absence of the originals, the text of the Bible, Old and New Testament, has never ceased to be falsified, altered, modified, rearranged, retouched, voluntarily and unintentionally, by copyists, proofreaders, clergymen and translators, from its existence to the present day.
We do not rely on the Bible as a reference except in some of the few verses that do not contradict the Qur’an
Because the Qur’an is dominant over the previous books and corrects it
Because the Qur’an is the only preserved book that has not been altered 1400 years ago
Can I read the Quran in English if I don’t know Arabic? - Q&A - Sh. Dr. Haitham al-Haddad
Why are the old Egyptian gods ignored? If you are Muslim and the Muslim religion was created after the Egyptian gods? Why do people believe more in Allah if he was just a prophet and not a God?
pilgrimage in Mecca and visit the grave of the Prophet Muhammad peace be upon him in Medina
One of the five pillars of Islam central to Muslim belief, Hajj is the pilgrimage to Mecca that every Muslim must make at least once in their lifetime if they are able; it is the most spiritual event that a Muslim experiences, observing rituals in the most sacred places in the Islamic world. Mecca is the birthplace of the Prophet Muhammad. The sanctuary there with the Ka‘ba is the holiest site in Islam. As such, it is a deeply spiritual destination for Muslims all over the world; it is the heart of Islam.
At the heart of the sanctuary at Mecca lies the Ka’ba, the cube-shaped building that Muslims believe was built by Abraham and his son Ishmael. It was in Mecca that the Prophet Muhammad received the first revelations in the early 7th century.
Therefore the city has long been viewed as a spiritual centre and the heart of Islam. The rituals involved with Hajj have remained unchanged since its beginning, and it continues to be a powerful religious undertaking which draws Muslims together from all over the world, irrespective of nationality or sect.
Even before Islam, Mecca was an important site of pilgrimage for the Arab tribes of north and central Arabia. Although they believed in many deities, they came once a year to worship Allah at Mecca. During this sacred month, violence was forbidden within Mecca and this allowed trade to flourish. As a result, Mecca became an important commercial centre. The revelation of Islam to the Prophet Muhammad (d. 632) restored the ancient religion of the One God to the Arab people and transformed Mecca into the holiest city in the Islamic world.
And unlike your stupid ****ing religion has archaeological evidence.
3124 B.C. is 5146 years ago and goes as far back as your stupid Adam and Eve shite where people lived to be over 100 years old in the stupid Kent Hovind idea of the "golden age" before God got angry and we got weak'err and dumb-err. https://hbu.edu/museums/dunham-bibl...am-unto-christ/
Suck it.
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I said Adam predated Eygyption gods, not Abraham. And don't bother quoting me Biblical timelines, given I'm not Christian.
Now since you seem to be a believer in Archaeology and Science, Is the concept of Adam and Eve really that stupid when there's scientific evidence that humans descended from a small group of people:
There was actual another recent study by EVOLUTIONSTS that showed Humanity has come from TWO people, although their explanation was this was after an extinction level event:
Now fun tidbit (gonna go a bit ennin here) Pharoah is used far more accurately (historically) in the Quran than in the Bible. Because as you pointed out, thanks to Archaeology we know when the first King was named Pharoah in the world and more specifically in Eygpt:
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