Can Charity Be Given Instead Of Animal Sacrifice?
Thanks for the video link. I did listen to it and i do understand in normal circumstances this makes sense. But i’m just wondering If i do ask people who are in very bad shape due to this pandemic they would want me to help them in many other ways , The cost of buying an animal for sacrifice can help many many families in feeding their familes for few weeks. The example is given like we pray to allah we give zakat … we know that’s farz in our religion so are you referring sacrificing an animal is also farz? and where does it say? thanks
I agree that we must not undervalue the worship of sacrifice and its importance in manifesting our true love for God but I think its true for normal circumstances. In situations of hardship like the one we are going through, we may evaluate the situation in our family and locality when making such determination. The other way of looking at this matter is that a great majority of even middle class people can’t afford to eat meat these days, let alone poor people. We can offer the sacrifice and then distribute most of the meat among the needy. We can even send the money to charities and let them sacrifice on our behalf and distribute the meat. I know families personally who only eat meat during Eid Al Adha time. I think it will serve both purposes.