Eid.

[Yildez]

What is your problem? I am assured that it is the custom, at Eid, to sacrifice a lamb (or some other meat) and share it 1/3 with ones family, 1/3 with ones neighbours and 1/3 with the poor.

I also know that over the last 4 or 5 difficult years it has been more difficult to be able to afford such a sacrifice/celebration.

My driver bought a lamb back in February/March and fattened it up for such sacrifice. I have yet to hear how Eid was with him.


Brian, I think that is the one that comes about 70 days after the end of Ramadan.

Yes Robbo, called Korban Bayram here in Turkey.

[Robbo70]

The silencing of the lambs day... a day I didn't venture out of the flat as several people in our street were slaughtering them.

[carrie]

Actually I have never seen so many people openly not fasting as this Ramadan, coffee shops have been open men drinking, smoking shisha, usually it is done more discretely, in the coffee shop with the shutters partially pulled down pretending to be closed. And before anyone says anything they were not all Copts.

[Winged Isis]

As I understand it, the public slaughtering of sheep/goats by Muslims is for Eid al Adha as part or the rituals at the end of the hajj and relating to Abraham's intention of sacrifice, and that such meat is consumed as part of the meals of iftar during Ramadan and after during Eid el Fitr, without the mass public slaughter. I'm sure someone will correct me if that's wrong.

When I worked in Jordan (always in January) there was always a day when we would be warned we may not want to go down to the village the next day as it was the killing time for Eid al Adha.