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Eid Al-Adha is a day of rejoicing throughout the Muslim world. It is ... the day of Udhiyah or sacrifice, one of the great rituals of Islam. The image of Saddam being led to the slaughter was abhorrent to the pilgrims. “He was sacrificed like a sheep,” said Manzar Muhammad Baloch, a pilgrim from Pakistan. “This is a warning to all the leaders in the Third World. If America so chooses, this will be your fate too.”
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"Eid Al-Adha is one of Islam's high holidays, yet most Americans know little about it," said Zainab Al-Suwaij, AIC's executive director. The holiday commemorates Abraham's near-sacrifice of his son Ismael. But the boy is spared at the last second, as Abraham's knife instead falls on a lamb.
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Eid Al-Adha begins on the 10th of Dhu'l-Hijja, the last month of the Islamic calendar, and lasts for fours days. It begins the day after Muslims on the Hajj descend from Mount Arafat.
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On this day of Eid Al-Adha, you should select your Ismail and bring him to Mina! Who is your Ismail? Anything that is causing an obstruction for you to reach your Lord and fulfill your duties towards Him. Your Ismail could be:
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In Birmingham, people visit the mosque on Eid day to attend prayer services. In Birmingham Central Mosque, there are usually five services led by different Imams in different languages but with the essential Qu'ránic Arabic.
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MINA, 31 December 2006 — They either hated him or loved him, but almost everyone here in the tent city of Mina was outraged at the hanging of ousted Iraqi President Saddam Hussein on Eid Al-Adha. The hanging was viewed by most pilgrims as a corruption of the occasion.
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