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Eid-ul-Adha

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Eid-ul-Adha [eed-ool-ah-da]
Noun
an annual Muslim festival, marking the end of the pilgrimage to Mecca [from Arabic id ul adha festival of sacrifice]


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He also said that his family attends religious celebrations such as Ramadan or fasting, Eid-ul-Fitr and Eid-ulAdha (Eid-ul-Fitr is celebrated immediately after the month of fasting, and Eid-ul-Adha, is the feast celebrated after hajj (pilgrimage)).
The carnival was just a week after one of the most important holidays in the Islamic calendar, Eid-ul-Adha, the Feast of Sacrifice.
Eid-ul-Adha or the Feast of Sacrifice commemorates the willingness of Ibrahim or Abraham to obey God and offer his son as a sacrifice, although his son was ultimately spared.
 
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