Eid Al-Adha is soon to arrive, and as always for Moroccans it's arriving surprisingly sooner than expected. And even if the invitation says "Don't bring a date, money is limited" Fat Eid decided to bring a very unwelcome guest School entry expenses which is putting Moroccan families into a bad embarrassing situation where they have to borrow -again- from that neighbor who will make them pay the double back -in order to save the day.
Feast of the Sacrifice (Sounds like Game of Thrones content and form) or Eid Al-Adha is one of two religious holidays celebrated by Muslims worldwide in honor of the willingness of Ibrahim to sacrifice his young first-born son Ismail as an act of submission to God's command before God then intervened to provide Abraham with a lamb to sacrifice instead. Full article Here
Moroccan Muslims celebrate the day every year according to the Islamic calendar, by sacrificing a whole sheep and a whole big size barbecue coal bag.
But this year, school entry decided to interfere by coming also sooner than expected, leaving Moroccans' bank accounts waxed and unable to afford a lamb to sacrifice. This would be a huge disappointment in such a sacred day if it wasn't for the heroes, the nobles the Robin Hoods who decided to donate people money to purchase the lamb they were always dreaming of, in return for that, those people would only have to pay back the money plus a little bit of interest who may seem like Riba which is completely forbidden in the Islam, and celebrating Eid Al-Adha is mandatory for those who can't afford it, but desperate times call for desperate measures.
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