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    Benediction Of Eid-Al-Adha

    By EditorJune 16, 2024
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    TODAY, Muslim faithful in Nigeria will join two billion other Muslims throughout the world to celebrate the festival of Eid al-Adha, known as Eid-Al-Kabir. The festival is rooted in scriptural accounts of both the Islamic and Judeo-Christian theology as evinced in Al Qur’an Kareem and the Old Testament respectively.

    The scriptural accounts (Qur’an Chapter 37 – Suratul As-Saffaat) highlight how, in a singular act of obedience to divine command, Prophet Ibrahim AS took Prophet Ismail AS, his son who he begot in his old age, to a location and prepared him for ritual of immolation as piety to Allah. As Ibrahim was about to cut the throat of his blindfolded son, a ministration came from the heavens.

    Allah conveyed the good tidings stopping the killing and revealed that a ram had been approved by Him as a replacement for the sacrifice. Allah added that Prophet Ibrahim AS had passed the ultimate test of faith and would be amply rewarded. The ram was promptly slaughtered while both father and son returned home in ecstatic joy. This exemplary story of Prophet Ibrahim’s AS fully manifested intent to sacrifice his most adored son is well known, but many do not bother to imbibe its essence.

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    The demonstration of this sublime virtue of selfless yield to the divine fiat is a reference point in the relation between Allah and man. As the embodiment of all knowledge and Wielder of all powers, only Allah is the Guiding Light to the path of redemption. There are enough injunctions in our religious books that would have made the society better if willingly obeyed. But what we often have is a case of selective obedience if not outright disobedience or crooked manipulative interpretations of God’s words to suit our pre-conceived foibles and whims.

    Today, Allah may not require us to kill our children to prove our unconditional submission to His will, but how many are truly eager to comply with even the comparatively easier obligations required of us? The two Holy Scriptures are replete with passages urging virtues of honesty, righteousness, integrity, good neighbourliness and love. But do we practice them?

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    Underscoring the imperative of yielding to Allah, The Qur’an, in Chapter 4 (Suratul an-Nisaa, Verse 125, says: “Who could have a better religion than someone who submits himself completely to God and is a good-doer, and follows the religion of Abraham, a man of pure natural belief?”

    Now, if we find it difficult to submit to Allah in the relatively easier obligations confronting us today, how miserably would we fail if called to make superior sacrifice like Prophet Ibrahim? Superior sacrifice consists of giving away one’s most prized possession.

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    Indeed, most of the problems facing us as a country and as a people stem from our attitude of superimposing personal preferences and selfish agenda over all other things, including Allah’s commandments and directives. Allah says we should not kill; we always find excuses to do so. He says we should not steal; we do for personal aggrandisement.

    As we celebrate this year’s Eid Al-Kabir, let us be reminded that the essence of this great festival is total submission to the will of Allah; it is not reckless bingeing and partying; it is not mere storing of mutton in fridges for hedonistic purpose of titillating the palate in drawn-out consumption many weeks after the eid.

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    Neither is it an occasion to flaunt wealth. The demonstrative purpose of Prophet Ibrahim’s sacrifice story is to underscore the virtue of total submission to the will of Almighty Allah. Following His will invariably inspires the spirit of love, charity, caring for others and selflessness.

    Eid Mubarak.

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