Opinion: Worshipping Allah through Sacrificing An Animal On Eid-ul-Adha, By Murtadha Gusau
All praise is for Allah. We praise Him, we seek His aid and we ask for His forgiveness. We seek Allah’s refuge from the evils of ourselves and from our evil actions. Whosoever Allah guides, there is no one who can misguide him; and whosoever Allah misguides, there is no one who can guide him.
The religion of Islam aims to make the individual attain spiritual wisdom and human virtues; meanwhile, it introduces some unifying and integrating commands and practices for the nation . This superior characteristic of Islam becomes more apparent in financial kinds of worship with social dimensions like Zakah, Hajj and Sacrifice.
As it is seen in this verse too, the purpose of sacrificing animals is sincerity, devotion and being close to Allah. The purpose is to remember Allah with the bounties He gave and especially to gain His consent. Unless those purposes and aims are intended, no matter how much meat is given away nor how much blood is shed, they have no value before Allah.Sacrifice is also an opportunity to remind the salvation of Prophet Isma’il as a favour of Allah from being sacrificed.
The Eid sacrifice should be in a good state and fat enough so that its meat could be eaten as this is a symbol of Allah. And Allah the Almighty says:[Qur’an, 22:32] The castrated animal can suffice because the Prophet Muhammad made Eid sacrifice with two castrated rams. The participant among the seven involves his family with him because the seventh here is the same as a sheep or a goat.
“Be present when your Eid sacrifice is slaughtered. Allah forgives you as the first drop of its blood comes out.” [Narrated by Al-Baihaqi, and Abdul-Razzaq in their collections of Hadith]Respected brothers and sisters, although Hajj is off limits for the majority of Muslims around the world this year, know that the blessings of this time of the year are not.
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