{"id":105262,"date":"2017-08-31T13:39:13","date_gmt":"2017-08-31T08:09:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/?p=105262"},"modified":"2017-08-31T13:39:13","modified_gmt":"2017-08-31T08:09:13","slug":"bakrid-the-festival-of-sacrifice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/bakrid-the-festival-of-sacrifice\/","title":{"rendered":"Bakrid the festival of Sacrifice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Eid ul-Adha the feast of sacrifice, also known as Baqr-Eid, commemorates the end of the Hajj pilgrimage. But it actually marks the divinely inspired sacrifice of Prophet Ibrahim (pbuh) in his path of divine love.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He agreed to sacrifice his beloved son, Ismail, when he was asked to sacrifice something most precious for God\u2019s pleasure. The most beloved to Ibrahim was his son\u2014Ismail\u2014who was born when both the parents were in old age.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-105264 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/eid-prayers1.jpg\" alt=\"Bakri Eid\" width=\"651\" height=\"386\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Hazrat Ibrahim and his wife spent their early life without a child. After their constant prayers for a child, Ismail was given birth like a miracle. Even then, Ibrahim submitted his will to sacrifice his beloved son for the pleasure of God. This is narrated in the Qur\u2019an:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-105265 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/x16-quran.jpg.pagespeed.ic_.WPWrKBRMVq.jpg\" alt=\"quran\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cWhen he was of an age to work with him, Ibrahim said, \u2018My son, I saw in a dream that I must sacrifice you. What do you think about this?\u2019Ismail] said, \u2018Do as you are ordered, father.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">God willing, you will find me steadfast.\u2019 Allah ransomed him with a mighty sacrifice. So pray to your Lord and sacrifice\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eid ul-Adha the feast of sacrifice, also known as Baqr-Eid, commemorates the end of the Hajj pilgrimage. But it actually marks the divinely inspired sacrifice of Prophet Ibrahim (pbuh) in his path of divine love. He agreed to sacrifice his beloved son, Ismail, when he was asked to sacrifice something most precious for God\u2019s pleasure. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":105263,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29597,2],"tags":[52988,52991,52995,52990,52989,52992,52994,52993],"class_list":["post-105262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-special-stories","category-top-stories","tag-bakri-eid","tag-baqr-eid","tag-divine-love","tag-eid-ul-adha","tag-festival-of-sacrifice","tag-hajj-pilgrimage","tag-pbuh","tag-prophet-ibrahim"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/bakrid.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105262\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}