[ABNA.IR] Prayers marking the Moslem holiday, Eid al-Adha, will begin at all Moscow mosques at 7 a.m. on October 4, a front man for the city's inter-regional cooperation, national policy and religious organizations department said.
Sacrificial sheep will be slaughtered on farms and in slaughter houses in individual villages of the Moscow Region, the front man said.
Eid al-Adha, the feast of the sacrifice, honors the willingness of Prophet Ibrahim (peace be upon him) to sacrifice his promised son, Ismail, as an act of submission to Allah's command, before Allah intervened to provide Abraham with a lamb to sacrifice instead.
While celebrating the feat of Prophet Ibrahim (peace be upon him), Moslems slaughter animals (sheep, goats, cows or camels). |