{"id":38047,"date":"2018-08-21T18:34:52","date_gmt":"2018-08-21T18:34:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/rwanda-muslim-community-mark-eid-al-adha\/"},"modified":"2018-08-21T18:34:43","modified_gmt":"2018-08-21T18:34:43","slug":"rwanda-muslim-community-mark-eid-al-adha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/rwanda-muslim-community-mark-eid-al-adha\/","title":{"rendered":"Rwanda Muslim community mark Eid Al-Adha"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Also known as Feast of Sacrifice or Big Eid, it is one of the two major festivals of Islam but considered the holier. The other is Eid al-Fitr which marks the end of Ramadan, the holy month of fasting.<\/p>\n<p>Eid Al-Adha commemorates the Koran tale of Prophet Abraham\u2019s willingness to sacrifice his son Ishmael but God offered him a lamb to sacrifice, ruling that no human life should be sacrificed in the name of God.<\/p>\n<p>Among Christian and Jews communities, they believe that Abraham is ordered to sacrifice another son Isaac.<\/p>\n<p>Rwandan Muslims have convened today at Kigali Stadium in Nyamirambo to offer prayers. <\/p>\n<p>Eid al-Adha has come two days after the two million Muslims started annual Islamic pilgrimage in Mina and Mecca cities of Saudi Arabia. <\/p>\n<p>The Holy pilgrimage started August 19 running until 26 with 79 Rwandans participating. <\/p>\n<p>The Mufti of Rwanda, Sheikh Salim Hitimana, led the gathering in prayers at Kigali Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>He encouraged the Muslim community to fight drugs especially among the youth and report drug dealers. <\/p>\n<p>Mufti Hitimana also urged the congregation to play their role in bringing about upcoming parliamentary elections, come September 2-3. <\/p>\n<p>Eid al-Adha compels all Muslims with means to slaughter cows, goats and other animals as sacrifice and distribute meat among disadvantaged around them.<\/p>\n<p>Mufti Hitimana reminded all Muslims to share feasts with the vulnerable in observance of the sacrifice. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a day of showing compassion and happiness that should always be reflected among the Muslims. You have to observe that, help the poor and share meals with them,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He said that Rwandan Muslims should not wait for foreign counterparts to give them animals to offer as sacrifice.  <\/p>\n<p>Today, Rwanda Muslim Community has offered as sacrifice 1,000 cows and 2,000 goats at the value of Rwf200 million.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-26818 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/abayisilamu_bakangurirwa_gusangira_n_abatishoboye_ku_munsi_wa_wa_eid_al_adha-ab3d7.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-26817 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/abayisilamu_bo_mu_rwanda_bizihije_umunsi_w_igitambo-f6752.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-26816 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/mufti_w_u_rwanda_salim_hitimana_ni_we_wayoboye_isengesho-b7000.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-26815 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/whatsapp_image_2018-08-21_at_07.33.34-de9b0.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rwandan Muslims have joined millions of counterparts around the world to celebrate Eid Al-Adha, Arabic expression meaning Festival of Sacrifice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[69],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-38047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-homehighlights","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38047\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38047"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=38047"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=38047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}