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My beloved brothers, my sisters, this is the great day of Eid.

Eidul Abha, the Eid wherein which a sacrifice is made.

In order for us to learn lessons and to be able to benefit from,

it was an act of worship of the Prophet Ibrahim Ali Hissala to Assalam.

No one brags about an act of worship.

It was an act of worship that Allah, Ibrahim Ali Hissala,

he himself never came out and said, you know what I did, I did this.

And all of you need to celebrate this.

He never said that.

Inbrahim Ali Hissala did not have pride in him,

boasting about what he did and telling everyone else to follow that because he did it.

But rather it was Allah who granted it acceptance as time passed

and made it compulsory for all of us.

Not for the meat of it alone.

The meat of it is just a perk if we can word it that way.

The meat of it is something that is, yes, it's there for us to enjoy,

but the enjoyment is not deserved if we do not connect and reconnect with Allah on this occasion.

A person who's not interested in learning what the sacrifice is really all about

doesn't really deserve to put a piece of that meat in his mouth and to say,

wow, did you see the built-on I made from this meat of Qurbani and so on.

You know what, it's besides the point you haven't quit the bottle,

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