Eid ul Adha – BBQ! The shopping time and the party time…
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Eid ul Adha – BBQ
Hello all, we are back with a new topic, and this time it’s
about Eid…. 😊
Who doesn’t like Eid?
The shopping time and the party time…
Whenever I hear Eid, I feel like its time for Ramadan and
all the fasting late-night shopping spree, namaz taraveeh and all the fun
moments, longer time with family and blessing everywhere…
But Eid is not only this, we have two Eid’s and the other
one is about the recalling the sacrifice, Hajj and all the religious events
that we do … The purchasing of animals, everywhere are the tents and animals,
roads have more traffic because of all the small mandi’s small cattle that we
have on the roadside.
It is the messiest type of Eid, not the part of the sacrifice
and religious points, but yes, the mess, the blood which is not cleaned, the
garbage which is not wrapped up properly the after-effects of the mess.
I cannot deny the fact and the enthusiasm of people who take
part, who use to go to the cattle and try to find a nice animal for sacrifice, May
Allah accepts our deeds and intentions, (hope they are pure and not a race).
Every year the cattle raise their bar of selling animals,
and as the peak factors are everywhere around, as everything has increased the prices
it is getting high and hard to buy an animal to bear the cost of even a goat,
still somehow somewhere people try hard to put their all power in purchasing a
good nice animal, not the one who would beat the mohalle ka expensive animal,
(neighbor’s expensive animal) but at least gives you a satisfaction of doing
Qurbani.
We all have that friend who use to show off their animal,
then someone in our colony who would show off, I don’t understand the need of
show off the animals.
Back in my childhood, we use to be happy about the Qurbani
and having an animal in the house, even mandi’s cattle houses use to be at high
way, as far as I remember there used to be few cattle farmhouses. As the era
changes and as the standard rises, we have now a variety of farmhouses, every
next person uses to purchase their own few slots of animals and make them sell
at high prices.
Even on the Eid days, they are open, you can visit and buy,
in old days the rates use to drop on the second and third day of Eid, but nowadays
they don’t care to drop the price….
Now the minimum opening rates of animals
are 70,000 for a normal animal if you opt for the kid of cow-calf (bachiya)
it starting rate is 50,000. Talking of goats and sheep’s, a few years back you can
have a goat for 20,000 and sheep for 12,000 (these are the minimum opening rates)
but now they are sold at 30,000/-.
There are so many organizations which make people
contribute for one share, back days you can put your share in 5000 than rate
increased and last year it was 7-8000 for one share. People use to save their
income so that they can actually opt and be eligible for sacrificing Qurbani.
This is the best thing people do, they contribute and make a pool so that they
can also have an opportunity to enjoy the festive.
Eid is not about showing off how well off you are and
how expensive animal you can afford, it is all about the intentions, and the welfare you do, the distribution you do within the family and outside the
families, for those who don’t eat meat and can’t afford the meat for the whole
month, it is about the remembrance of the past and events, as it is said it’s
not the blood nor the meat that reaches to Allah it is the intention that
reaches to Allah.
Let’s make this Eid worthy for everyone, let’s help in
distributing the meat as much as we can, let’s help each other in this good
cause.
Are the one who show off or the one who keeps on praying for an animal to buy?
Or the one who put their share for the Qurbani?
Oh! That’s not a wrap, we have more things to talk about…
And yes! I am talkative and I like talking with you all…
What do you do on Eid?
Help your mother’s in the kitchen or the one that used to close
themselves in the room?
I am particularly the one who use to close myself in the room, I
use to watch the Qurbani, but then use to lock me up in the room, because I can
not tolerate the smell of fresh meat.
Though when I was a kid, I use to be right beside my Taya
abbu and see how the butcher cuts and to do pieces, also I use to see the veins
heart arteries because I was in love with biology and all this. As I grew up I
am still in love with the biology, I use to see that even after all that blood
left the body the cutting and pieces the fresh meat used to vibrate, and it is
hot on touching any piece it's hot, the smell is so strong it does not leave
your body at all, also the fresh meat have a tendency to stick on you.
Anyways parents use to keep a condition for everything, to
make you learn, so my parents have a condition, if I want a BBQ party, I have
to help them in pieces cutting cooking and winding up. Yeah, even after being
allergic and not eating meat I love doing BBQ because who doesn’t love it? And
yes! For the sake of the party, I have to cover my nose with a cloth which has
ittar on it, which stays longer than anything. Which helps me keep going with
the preps.
As soon as the meat is cut and there are pieces, we use to
make bundles for distributing and for late use, also we use to prepare the
kaleeji’s and BBQ preps because they say the longer the masala stays, it
becomes tastier. For me on day one it’s the busiest also the preps, for kabab,
qeema, seekhain and what not… feels like we are the only one in the family who does
all this, after making a full contribution towards relatives and poor people.
Anyways, share your
routine of day one and two, because there are people who do Qurbani on the second
day and few on day three…
Until next time 😊
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