Preparations for Eidul Azha (snaps) Part-1

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Muslims across the world are preparing to celebrate the annual festival of Eidul Azha, or the Festival of Sacrifice, which marks the end of the Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca and in commemoration of Prophet Abraham's readiness to sacrifice his son to show obedience to God. Sacrifice commonly known as ‘Qurbani’, means slaughter of a permissible animal generally goats, sheep, rams, cows and camels in the name of God on the 10th, 11th or 12th of the Islamic month of Zil Hijjah.



A Pakistani Muslim buys a goat at a market ahead of the Muslim festival of Eidul Azha in Karachi.–AFP Photo



A Jordanian vendor weighs an alive sheep on a scale before selling it to a customer, in preparation for Eidul Azha, in Amman, Jordan.–AP Photo



A Kashmiri sheep seller waits for customers at a market ahead of the upcoming festival of Eidul Azha in Srinagar.–AFP Photo



A Kashmiri sheep seller weighs a sheep at a market ahead of the upcoming festival of Eidul Azha in Srinagar.–AFP Photo



Sheep are seen in a cattle market in Cairo ahead of Eidul Azha.–Reuter Photo

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Muslims across the world are preparing to celebrate the annual festival of Eidul Azha, or the Festival of Sacrifice, which marks the end of the Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca and in commemoration of Prophet Abraham's readiness to sacrifice his son to show obedience to God. Sacrifice commonly known as ‘Qurbani’, means slaughter of a permissible animal generally goats, sheep, rams, cows and camels in the name of God on the 10th, 11th or 12th of the Islamic month of Zil Hijjah.



A Palestinian man transports his sheep as Muslims across the world start to buy and sell animals to be slaughtered for the Eidul Azha in the Gaza Strip.–AFP Photo



Camel herders await customers at an animal market ahead of the Muslim festival Eidul Azha in Lahore.–AFP Photo



People gather to buy sacrificial animals for upcoming Eidul Azha at a market at Superhighway in Karachi.–PPI Photo



A Jordanian animal vendor sells camels for slaughter on the Muslim holiday of Eidul Azha in Amman.–AFP Photo



An Iraqi boy walks amongst sheep penned up on the side of a main road waiting for customers in central Baghdad.–AFP Photo



Children look at sacrificial goats outside the al-Akhyar mosque in Jakarta before they are slaughtered and the meat is distributed to the poor and families, as Indonesia marks the first day of the Islamic holiday of Eidul Azha.–AFP Photo

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