EID UL-ADHA

More known in France under the name of Eid el-Kabir or "Sheep Festival" this feast commemorates the sacrifice of the son of the Prophet Ibrahim. At the time when Ibrahim was preparing to plant a knife in the heart of his son Ishmael, God placed a ram instead of Ishmael and spared him life. This feast is celebrated throughout the Muslim world and families sacrifice a sheep. The wealthiest will kill a goat, a cow or even a camel. Tradition means that one third of the meat is given to its neighbours and another third to the poor. In Bangladesh, people knifing animals on their doorstep and the streets fill with a thick blood fillet. Sensitive souls abstain.