Eid ul-Adha - January 9
My first Eid in a Muslim country (as far as I remember) From the stories, I expected the streets to be running with blood. That wasn’t too far off:
Most stunning thing about this: as far as I understand the rules for Eid slaughter, hardly any were followed followed them! At the very least, you have to use a clean and sharp knife, and you have to recite a prayer before cutting. So many of the slaughters outside butcher shops, as in the picture above, were done so fast there was simply no time for a prayer recitation.
The purposes of halal slaughter rules, which are made stricter for Eid slaughter, is to ensure the animal feels is killed quickly, with as little pain as possible, and to ensure that humans recognize this as a gift from God, and a sacrifice of His creation. Killing an animal is not something to be taken lightly. There’s a whole holiday recognizing this.
Eid is usually a time of religious bliss for me – even when I have exams, they don’t take me away from this – so this might have been my first demoralizing moment about Egyptian Islam.
Yet still a very good day. Spent the day at Yasmeen’s house with her family. For one thing, they got the slaughter right, and we spent the rest of the day preparing food, relaxing, reading a bit. Dinner was AMAZING:
In the end, good food and good company makes everything awesome.
Most stunning thing about this: as far as I understand the rules for Eid slaughter, hardly any were followed followed them! At the very least, you have to use a clean and sharp knife, and you have to recite a prayer before cutting. So many of the slaughters outside butcher shops, as in the picture above, were done so fast there was simply no time for a prayer recitation.
The purposes of halal slaughter rules, which are made stricter for Eid slaughter, is to ensure the animal feels is killed quickly, with as little pain as possible, and to ensure that humans recognize this as a gift from God, and a sacrifice of His creation. Killing an animal is not something to be taken lightly. There’s a whole holiday recognizing this.
Eid is usually a time of religious bliss for me – even when I have exams, they don’t take me away from this – so this might have been my first demoralizing moment about Egyptian Islam.
Yet still a very good day. Spent the day at Yasmeen’s house with her family. For one thing, they got the slaughter right, and we spent the rest of the day preparing food, relaxing, reading a bit. Dinner was AMAZING:
In the end, good food and good company makes everything awesome.
posted by Aatif at 11:02 PM
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