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 What Are the Social Aspects of the Muslim Feast of Sacrifice?

What are the social benefits of the feast of sacrifice? What are the benefits of Muslim feast of sacrifice to community life?

Answer:

The Muslim feast of sacrifice regenerates the brotherhood and helping each other in the society

Relatives are considered and taken into account through slaughtering the sacrifice and distributing it to them. A strong bridge is established between the poor and the rich. This, not only substantially provides the public welfare but also helps people to come closer to each other. A whole of other values keeping the humanity alive are also being performed by the courtesy of the feast of sacrifice.
Millions of animals are being cut every other day and people who consume these meats are the ones who have power. Through the feast of sacrifice many animals are slaughtered as sacrifices and distributed. The meats are distributed regardless of distance, far or near, acquaintances or strangers. Because it is the order of Islam that the two thirds meat of the slaughtered animal must be distributed to the ones in need.
"Hence mention (and sacrifice) the name of Allah over them while they are standing up. After they lean on their side (fallen lifeless) eat thereof and feed the one who is contended (does not beg) and the one who begs (openly)." (Hajj: 36)
On this occasion; especially the families, who don’t have the opportunity or just have limited chance to eat meat, find the opportunity to do so. This helps them feel like they are the other parts of the society, cannot be excluded.
Moreover in the feast of sacrifice poor families don’t get worried with regards to their livelihoods and they participate into the feast in peace, thus this shows its reflections in society, everyone peacefully lives in unity and fellowship.
Besides the skins of the slaughtered animals are used to provide more services for the poor through the foundations that aim the social solidarity.
All of these provide love, brotherhood and respect to be widespread among Muslims. And also Islam's another specialty of ensuring the social justice is seen in this way.

Feast of Sacrifice revives the trade

Another thing that feast of sacrifice brings to social life is “reviving the trade”.
The bazaar, which is constituted by the people who want to fulfill their worship of slaughtering the sacrifice, both helps people who do stock farming in the economical way and contributes new fields of jobs to be opened.
Today in too many places these Feast of sacrifice tents are set up and this provides new job fields and accelerates and revives the commercial life. Kaynak: http://askaquestionto.us - What Are the Social Aspects of the Muslim Feast of Sacrifice?