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Welcome to another Q&A of our regular Tuesday Q&As and seeing that the month of the Hidja is almost upon us.

I thought that I would do a cluster of questions in our first Q&A about the issue of the Odhayah or Qurbani and so I chose two or three of them and allowed them together.

Brother Muhammad from London emails and he asks about the rulings of the Qurbani.

When we are not going for Hajj, what are the procedures and what aspects should a person be aware of?

And brother Nihal emails from New Jersey asking whether he should do Qurbani on behalf of the Prophet ﷺ and Sister Injila from India

writes that she cannot afford a full goat on her own but if she and her sister both combine together they can afford an animal if this is permissible.

Can she combine with another person and to give one animal is that permissible?

So this is our first question I just lumped all of these together and of course this is a very important question for this time frame

where about to enter the month of the Hidja and as we're all aware one of the rituals that is strongly recommended

or perhaps even obligatory according to one opinion is the Odhayah or the Qurbani.

Of course the term Qurbani is used in the Southeast Asian cultures, Urdu, Hindi and Bangladesh speaking people use the word Qurbani.

And the Arabic term is not Qurbani it is Odhayah and Odhayah.

So Qurbani of course means sacrifice that which is offered to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.

So Qurbani is to come close to and so the notion here is the Qurbani is that which is offered or basically brought close to Allah Zawajan in the Urdu speaking languages.

And then the Odhayah, the term Odhayah, it comes from Salatuduhah, it comes from Wadduhah and Odhayah is called Odhayah

because the time frame in which the animal is sacrificed is after the Fajr Salah and when the sun is rising they'll do that time.

So it is called Odhayah because the norm across the Muslim world, when do you do the sacrifice?

We're going to discuss the beginning and the end technically but when is the default?

The default is when after you come back from Salat al-Rid and before Salat al-Duhar and that time frame is called Duhah, Wadduhah.

So Odhayah is the time frame and so you call the sacrifice of the animal basically it is called Odhayah because it is done during this time frame.

And the sacrificing of an animal during this time frame during the Idhul Al-Hah and the next few days after that it is one of the most rewarding and respected rituals in all of Islam.

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