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| Kashmir readies for Eid festivities, goats, sheep and camels on display | | shops and makeshift markets make brisk sales, traders brazenly disregard official rate lists | \
Srinagar, August 20, (Scoop News)-Eid Aye Ras e Ras e, Eidgah Vasve Eidgah Vasve (The day of Eid has come slowly, Let’s go Eidgah to offer our prayers). To welcome the festival young, teenage, adult and even elderly women sing this welcome song in lawns and compounds of their houses in Kashmir valley.
Eid Ul Azah is observed on the 10th day of Dhu Al Hajjah, the last month of the Islamic calendar. Eid is an important day of the five day long Hajj pilgrimage.
On August 22 (Wednesday), Kashmir will be celebrating Eid Ul Azah also known as festival of sacrifice. The festival acknowledges the great sacrifice of Prophet Ibraham who was asked by Almighty God to offer his son in sacrifice. Before Prophet Ibraham could execute God’s order, the God sent a ram for the sacrifice instead. Since then the sacrifice of camels, goats, sheep and other permissible animals in Islam are being sacrificed by the faithful to please the Almighty God.
“The festival teaches the spirit of sacrifice among the faithful,” said Dr Farooq Ahmed, a religious scholar.
For past three days the market is abuzz with activities as locals are making preparations for two and half day annual festival of Eid ul Azah which falls on Wednesday.
For a better deal, people were seen hopping from one market to another to purchase sheep, goat and chicken. The consumers are being charged with exorbitant rates as traders brazenly disregard official rate lists.
Lal Chowk, Regal Chowk, and other markets in downtown area remained crowded with shoppers, who were purchasing bakery items, readymade garments, shoes besides necessary household items, To cope up with unprecedented rush, the shopkeepers did engage helping hands to assist them.
Additional Traffic policemen were deployed to manage crowd and traffic snarls in busy markets as many shoppers had parked their vehicles in a haphazard manner outside the shopping arcades.
Besides Eidgahs, the congregational prayers will be offered at Dargah, Syed Mansoor Seb, Polo Ground, Iqbal Park shrines and in local mosques. According to Anjuman e Auqaf Jama Masjid Srinagar, the Eid Ul Azah prayers would be offered as per the programme at historic Eidgah at 9 am. The organizers have urged the people to participate in huge numbers to express unity. They asked faithful to maintain discipline and suggested them to bring prayer mat (Jai e Nimaz) along.
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