The second great festival of Muslims, Bakr Eid (Idul Zuha), is being celebrated in mosques across the country today. It is a religious tradition to celebrate Bakr Eid on the 70th day of Eid al-Fitr, i.e. the 70th day of Ramadan. It is a tradition for Muslims to take a bath early this morning and go to a nearby mosque or Idgah to offer collective prayers. After offering prayers, greetings are exchanged.

On this occasion, Muslims gather in large numbers at the Nepali Jame Masjid at Durbarmarg, the Kashmiri Masjid and other mosques and Idgahs across the country. According to the Hijri calendar, this festival was started to commemorate the readiness of Ibrahim to sacrifice his son Ismail (peace be upon him) at the behest of Allah, 1439 years ago, according to the Hijri calendar, according to former chairman of the Muslim Commission, Nirshosh Ali.

Muslim religious leader (Maulana) Rahmat Ali said that the lineage of Ibrahim, who became the basis of the historical Bakr Eid festival, was continued by Muhammad Salallah born in Mecca in 571 AD. He mentioned that he made an important contribution to the transmission of this festival and religion by composing a religious book called Hadith.

‘The book which is currently being studied and taught in Muslim religious schools (madrasas), has a history of Salallah, who was born in Mecca, moving to Medina at the age of 53. In memory of that, a big fair is still held in both these pilgrimage sites in Saudi Arabia,’ said Maulana Ali.

As it is considered auspicious to go to Mecca on the occasion of the festival, the Ministry of Home Affairs arranges flight tickets for the pilgrims to go there. Even pilgrims who cannot go to Mecca celebrate Bakr Eid at home. The main purpose of this festival is the Hajj pilgrimage. In this festival, Muslims sacrifice animals that they consider permissible to please Allah. According to religious belief, the Prophet Ibrahim Ali Salam was ordered to sacrifice his son Ismail, whom he had with his wife Hajra at the age of 90. According to religious belief, when Allah was pleased with his obedience, it was not Ismail who was sacrificed, but a ram raised in heaven. That is why Muslims believe that the practice of sacrifice has been maintained. It is said that the childless Ibrahim prayed to Allah to have children. Muslims believe that Allah told him to sacrifice in a dream as a test in accordance with Ibrahim's promise that if Allah gave him children, he would sacrifice.

There is a legend that after he sacrificed many animals, Allah was not pleased, and in the end he wanted to please Allah by sacrificing his most beloved child. At this time, it is said that after his test proved successful, the place of sacrifice was not a human but a lamb raised in paradise.

According to tradition, the meat of the sacrifice is divided into three parts and distributed. One part is given to the poor and needy family, another part to his friends and the third part is eaten by the Muslim religious belief. Accordingly, today is the first day of Bakr Eid.