Eid al-Adha
The Festival of Sacrifice (Arabic: عيد الأضحى, DMG ʿ Idu l -Adha ) is the highest Islamic festival. It is celebrated the climax of the hajj, the pilgrimage to Mecca, which begins annually on the tenth day of the Islamic month of Dhu al - Hijjah and lasts four days. Due to the Islamic lunar calendar, the festival of sacrifice can take place at any time of year, it moves in the solar calendar backward by most eleven days per year.
With the ' Eid al - Fitr, the feast of breaking the fast at the end of the fasting month of Ramadan, it is one of the most important festivals in the Islamic Ordinary Time.
Importance
In the Feast of Sacrifice of Prophet Ibrahim ( Abraham) is thought had passed the divine test according to Muslim tradition, and was willing to sacrifice his son Ishmael (see Isaac ) Allah. When Allah (God) saw his willingness and his trust in God, he stopped him. Ibrahim and Ismail then sacrificed with gratitude in the circle of friends and need a ram. The story is told in the Qur'an in Sura 37.99 to 113. In the Bible there is the story of the sacrifice of Isaac (Gen 22:1-19 EU).
It is for all believing Muslims worldwide duty, to celebrate the feast to sacrifice an animal if they can afford because financially. The meat of the animal they are to distribute among the poor and hungry. It is a good custom to sacrifice hard to insure all our friends and relatives best wishes and also to give them some of the meat. Sometimes it is simply sacrificed to thank God.
According to regional availability are sheep, but also other domesticated animals such as goats, cattle, camels slaughtered in dry areas or water buffalo, as in Indonesia. Generally, only Artiodactyla - except the applicable pig as unclean - ritually geschächtet.
Both on the first morning of the sacrificial feast, as well as on the first morning of the fast-breaking festival, the mosque is visited to there the common and special prayer (Salat) to perform this feast day, which consists of two ruk'at and the specificity was that the speech ( khutba ) - usually by the Imam - after the prayer, and not, as at Friday prayers in front of the prayer is done. Most joins the visit to the mosque on a visit to the cemetery to commemorate his deceased relatives and friends and for them to read verses from the Koran and speak supplication, which is not what the Sunnah of the Prophet, but the as a tradition in the sequence celebration has crept in different countries. The rest of the day is used to visit the family and acquaintance. It serves various dishes and drinks are usually offered in the large group. It makes each other and often the needy gifts. Both the men and women attract each other particularly beautiful or new clothes. Also, the house is completely determined in accordance tidy and cleaned.
Legal Status in Germany
Because the Feast of Sacrifice and breaking the fast feast among all Muslim women and Muslims are indisputable and binding in all schools of Islamic law and Islam as the main festivals of Islam, students can Islamic faith can be on that day nationwide free from lessons. This is done by means of written notification of the parents or, in the case of age by self- report. Teachers are therefore advised to terminate at both festivals no classes or course work or other performance records. A deviation by one day by the respective community is tolerated. Free content of credits but is binding only published in the Official Journal of the main day.
Similar to Christian holidays (eg, the Day of Atonement, the more is not a public holiday in most provinces ), workers can on the day of the sacrificial feast take a day off or apply for unpaid leave.
Note also that the proposed slaughter of a sacrificial animal should be notified to the competent official veterinarian to ante-mortem and post-mortem inspection. A slaughter without stunning ( shafts) is prohibited in principle by the German legal, but a special permit for religious reasons be granted.
For some time, Muslim or Turkish organizations such as the Turkish Community in Germany wish for the introduction of a legal Muslim holidays in Germany. As an example, here is often called the Festival of Sacrifice, "This would be an important signal to the Muslim population," said according to press releases from the TGD National Chairman Kenan Kolat in January 2014, the news agency dpa. This proposal should advise a future Islamic Conference.