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Eid Al-Adha: Saudi Arabia
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`As for Eid Al-Adha, difference among Muslim countries is not passable at all, for Muslims should follow the occasion of Hajj. Therefore, the Day of `Arafah is the Day when pilgrims stand on the mountain of `Arafah, and Muslims should celebrate the same day with them. Sighting the moon of Dhul-Hijjah carries no weight in other countries if it differs from that of Saudi Arabia.
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Eid-al-Adha... known as the Feast of Sacrifice or the Great Feast, is the most important feast day in Islam and comes at the end of the Pilgrimage to Mecca. Each year the last month of the Islamic calendar, the month of Dhul Hijjah, is the month of pilgrimage. Millions of Muslims travel to Mecca in Saudi Arabia during this month. Making a pilgrimage to Mecca is the Fifth Pillar of Islam. The pilgrimage is a form of worship.
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Eid al-Adha is 3 days long and starts on the 10th day of the month of Dhul Hijja (ذو الØجة) of the lunar Islamic calendar. This is the day after the pilgrims in Hajj, the annual pilgrimage to Mecca in Saudi Arabia by Muslims worldwide, descend from Mount Arafat. It happens to be approximately 70 days after the end of the month of Ramadan.
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The following list shows the official dates of Eid ul-Adha for Saudia-Arabia as announced by the Supreme Judicial Council. Future dates are calculated according to the Umm al-Qura. The three days after the listed date are ... part of the festival. The time before the listed date the pilgrims visit the Mount Arafat and descend from it after sunrise of the listed day. Future dates of Eid ul-Adha might face correction 10 days before the festivity, in case of deviant lunar sighting in Saudia Arabia for the start of the month Dhul Hijja.
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: Dr. Jamal Badawi and a few other members, without any support from the Qur’an and the Sunnah, insisted that ISNA Fiqh Council made a mistake in 1999 by abrogating its Eid al-Adha ruling. They forced ISNA Fiqh Council to go back to “Eid al-Adha the day after Saudi Hajj date” – a criterion they admitted has NO SOUND BASIS. Here is ISNA’s explanation:
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Eid is a joyous time of year, and Aneesa, the heroine of the story, should be happy. But her parents are thousands of miles away in Saudi Arabia for the Hajj pilgrimage. To cheer her up, her grandmother gives her a gift of beautiful clothes, one outfit for each of the three days of Eid. At the prayer hall, Aneesa meets two young refugees from a war-torn land. Aneesa can't stop thinking about what Eid must be like for them. Then she comes up with a plan to help make it the best Eid holiday ever.
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