Pharmaceutical Review (Staff Reporter). The executives of Pakistan Pharmacist Federation; Dr. Taha Nazir Ph.D. President, Hafiz M. Umer Nisar President Punjab, Prof. Dr. Syed Umer Jan Ph.D. president Baluchistan, Jumshaid Ahmad president Sindh and Prof. Dr. Fazal Subhan president Pashwar, KPK feel pleasure to wish a happy “Eid al-Adha”; Feast of the Sacrifice, Kurban Bayram (Turkish); Eid-e-Qurban (Persian) and Baqr-e Eid (Urdu).
This religious holiday is going to be celebrated by Muslims worldwide to honour the willingness of the prophet Ibrahim (Abraham) to sacrifice his young first-born son Ismail (Ishmael) a as an act of submission to God’s command and his son’s acceptance to being sacrificed, before God intervened to provide Abraham with a Lamb to sacrifice instead. In the lunar Islamic calendar, Eid al-Adha falls on the 10th day of Dhu al-Hijjah and lasts for four days.
The basis for the Eid al-Adha comes from the 196th verse of the 2nd sura of the Quran. The word “Eid” appears once in the 5th sura of the Quran, with the meaning “solemn festival”.
Eid begins with a Sunnah prayer of two rakats followed by a sermon (khuṭbah). The celebrations started after the descent of the Hajj from Mount Arafat, a hill east of Mecca. Ritual observance of the holiday lasts until sunset of the 12th day of Dhu al-Hijjah. Eid sacrifice may take place until sunset on the 13th day of Dhu al-Hijjah. The days of Eid have been singled out in the Hadith as “days of remembrance”. The days of Tashriq are from the Fajr prayer of the 9th of Dhul Hijjah up to the Asr prayer of the 13th of Dhul Hijjah (5 days and 4 nights). This equals 23 prayers: 5 on the 9th-12th, which equal 20, and 3 on the 13th.
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