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Eid Al Adha

 

Every year on Eid Al Adha { is a holiday at the end of the Hajj, the annual Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca which is one of the greatest religious observance in Islam this year its falls o the 7th  of Nov } the boys in the village use the goat skin to dress one of them as a goat & others in masks follow him, some in...ladies dresses... dancing & chassing any one who does not join in the celebration ...this is like Halloween just no sweets involved .....

Eid Al-Adha commemorates Prophet Abraham's willingness to obey God when he envisioned that he was to sacrifice his son. Muslims observe this day by slaughtering an animal (usually a sheep) and then offering much of its meat in charity to poor people. 

The sacrifice symbolizes obedience to Allah and its distribution to others is an expression of generosity,

one of the five pillars of Islam

 

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