Turks Pay For Eid Sacrifice By Installments

Turkey’s national economy has been crippling for three years due to high inflation rate, currency devaluation and hard-to-meet conditions imposed by the World Bank.

To make life easier and breathe life into the stagnant economy, some Turkish companies are offering sheep and cattle at five installments.

A financially-able Muslim sacrifices a single sheep or goat or shares six others in sacrificing a camel or cow as an act of worship during Eid Al-Adha.

Turks donate the animal’s fur or leather to charities and the Air Force.

Although the law provides for giving such donations to the Air Force it only gets 10 percent of the annual donations estimated at between $100-150 million while charities receive the lion’s share.

According to the majority of Muslim scholars Udhiyah or sacrifice is a Confirmed Sunnah.

It reminds Muslims of the great act of sacrifice Prophet Ibrahim and his son Isma`eel were willing to make for the sake of God.

The sacrificing of the animal should take place from after `Eid Prayer until the last of the Days of tashreeq (the13 th day of Dhul-Hijjah).