Eid al-Adha 2020: Why Eid al-Adha is also known as Bakrid?

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Eid al-Adha 2020 special: Why Eid al-Adha is also known as Bakrid?



Some people refer to the meaning of Eid-al-Azha as Bakrid because goat sacrificed on this day, but it's not like that. 

Actually, in Arabic language Bakr means big animal whose jibh is done which means that to cut or sacrifice. 

Connecting with the same, today in India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh, it is called Bakra Eid. Only goats are not sacrificed on the day of Bakrid, but the Muslim community has to sacrifice their beloved animal.

In the Muslim community, this festival is celebrated as a remembrance of the sacrifice done by Hazrat Ibrahim. Eid-e-Kurba means the spirit of sacrifice. Curb in Arabic means closely. Meaning, this is an occasion when a person is very close to Allah. 

The main purpose of the Bakrid festival is to awaken the sense of public service and service to Allah. This festival of Bakrid also recognizes Hajj, the fifth principle of Islam. The five acts of Islam also include Hajj.

The festival of Eid-ul-Juha is celebrated in the joy of completion of the Haj pilgrimage. The Islamic law says that first take off your debt, then go on Hajj and then celebrate Bakrid.

A few days before Bakrid, the goat is bought and kept. There is great excitement at this festival in the country and abroad. There happens a huge crowd in the mosques to offer Eid prayers on this festival of sacrifice.

People sacrifice their beloved animals like goats, sheep, camels, etc. after Namaz. Qurbani's meat is divided into three parts on the day of Bakrid. 

A portion of that meat is kept for himself, another for relatives, and the third for the poor. Like Eid-ul-Fitr, in Eid-ul-Zuha, it is obligatory to give zakat i.e. donations to the poor so that no poor person is left on this occasion of happiness.

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