How They Celebrate And What Is Prepared On Kurban Bayram

Kurban Bayram - the Feast of Sacrifice - one of the main and one of the two canonical Islamic holidays, dedicated to the end of the Hajj - the pilgrimage to Mecca.

The holiday of Kurban Bayram falls on the 70th day after the holiday of Uraza Bayram and on the 10th day of the Islamic month of Dhul-Hijjah. This year, Kurban Bayram begins to be celebrated on September 1. The celebration lasts 3 days.

The Feast of the Sacrifice takes its roots from the time of the Prophet Ibrahim, when Allah stopped his hand, already raised above the head of his son in order to sacrifice him, and ordered instead to slaughter a ram that was nearby.

Thus, Muslims abandoned human sacrifices and began to sacrifice only animals.

Mandatory fasting in Islam is fasting in the month of Ramadan, ending with the holiday of Uraza Bayram. Immediately before Eid al-Fitr, there are additional one-day or 10-day fasts, which are observed at will. A mandatory condition on the Feast of Sacrifice is not to eat anything before the morning prayer.

The celebration begins in the morning. After washing and putting on new clothes - it is important that the clothes are light - Muslims go to the mosque for the morning prayer. Then the Muslims return home and sing the praises of Allah in chorus. Then everyone goes to the mosque or to the square, where the mullah reads a sermon, after which the participants go to the cemetery, where they pray for the dead.

The main rite of the holiday is the offering of a sacrifice in the Mina valley. Since not all Muslims can make the pilgrimage to Mecca, the canons prescribe that this part of the celebration be performed wherever Muslims happen to be .

Returning home after the cemetery, they begin the ritual of sacrifice. A ram, sheep, goat, cow, bull, or camel without external defects and without offspring is sacrificed. The age of a ram should not be more than 1 year, and a bull or a cow - two. Most often, the ritual animal is a ram. If a person does not know how to slaughter an animal, then it is done by a specially trained person - necessarily a Muslim and necessarily according to the ritual. Animals are not slaughtered in mosques. Also, killing an animal on the street is considered barbaric. Usually in large cities there is an official list of places where the ritual slaughter of livestock is carried out during the Feast of Sacrifice. In the Muslim countryside, animals can be slaughtered in the yard of a house or in a field. The sacrifice is divided into 3 parts: the owner of the house keeps the first for himself, donates the second to the community, and distributes the third to beggars on the street. The meat of the sacrificial animal must be eaten during Kurban Bayram , after the end of the celebration , you cannot eat the sacrificial animal. The skins of the killed animals are given to the temple, and the bones are buried in the ground.

The rules of Kurban Bayram prescribe to treat everyone, first of all the poor.

Also, Muslims give gifts to friends and relatives on the days of the holiday of sacrifice, visit family and friends. And the presence during the sacrificial ceremony is considered blessed.

Regardless of the region and the peculiarities of the national cuisine, all Muslims should try many meat dishes on the days of Kurban Bayram , and a huge amount of sweets are also served to the table.

Mandatory fasting in Islam is fasting in the month of Ramadan, ending with the holiday of Uraza Bayram. Immediately before Eid al-Fitr, there are additional one-day or 10-day fasts, which are observed at will. A mandatory condition on the Feast of Sacrifice is not to eat anything before the morning prayer.

On the first day of the holiday , it is customary to prepare dishes from offal - liver and heart. The second day begins with a plate of soup cooked in a broth made from lamb heads and legs. They prepare stewed meat, roast meat, adding rice, beans and vegetables. On the third day of Kurban Bayram , lamb bone soups, fatte, pilaf, shashlik, lagman, manti, beshbarmak, chuchvara and many other national dishes are served to the table.

A special place on the festive table is occupied by sweets, which are used to decorate tables and treat children. On the Feast of Sacrifice , pastries are usually prepared using almonds and raisins - various oriental cookies, pies and biscuits, traditional baklava, Turkish delight, samsa.