Day of Sacrifice in the Middle of Epidemic

Kompas/Bahana Patria Gupta

Buying and selling activities at Singosari Animal Market, Malang Regency, Monday (20/7/2020). Most of the cattle and goats sold in the market are for the needs of Eid.

The history of sacrificial sharia pertains to the extraordinary drama between Prophet Ibrahim, Siti Hajar, and Prophet Ismail. The story of the three then becomes a theological foundation for the teaching of sacrifice in Islam.

The story is recorded in the Qur\'an Surah As-Shaffat Verses 100-106: "O my Lord, grant me a pious child. Then We gave him good tidings of a forbearing child. And when he reached with him [the age of] exertion, Ibrahim said to him, \'O my son, indeed I have seen in a dream that I (must) sacrifice you. Then, consider what you think? ’"