The Feast of Sacrifice The other religious festival, The Feast of Sacrifice, is celebrated almost the same as the Ramadan festival. It takes place seventy days after Ramazan for four days.

This festival takes place in Islam as a memory of the story in which a ram fell from the sky just at the moment when the Prophet Abraham was about to sacrifice his son to God.

Every year during The Feast of Sacrifice, around four million cows, rams, sheep, camels are sacrificed by every head of a household who can afford to buy an animal. We sacrifice different types of animals to our economy. We can sacrifice sheep for one person and a cow or a camel for maximum 7 people. It is then butchered and the family and friends prepare for a feast. Part of the meat is distributed to the needy, and the skin is donated to charity. According to tradition, each family must slaughter an animal and distribute one-thirds of it to the needy. They serve one-thirds of it to the visiters and they eat other one-thirds of it with the family members.

This time, most of the gifts are food. During the Feast of the Sacrifice, not only candies but also the meat of sacrificial animal are served to guests. Both during Ramadan and the Feast of the Sacrifice people come together, visit and celebrate each other.