Adil Najam
Last year we posted a rather disturbing video that might have been titled the ‘revenge of the cow’; if you did not see it, it may be worth watching again. Our bhains video this year is more docile but equaly though-provoking.
This is a Geo News report from Bakra Mandi, Walton, Lahore. Rs. 10 lakh (Rs. 1,000,000), Rs. 6 lakh (Rs. 600,000) for a cow and the bargaining goes on. “Babar” is a fine specimen for sure – wighing 35 mun, 4 year old, and drinking 10 kilo milk and eating 1o kilo of fodder a day it is being offered for Rs. 10 lakh (Rs. one million).
Is this a story about inflation? Or is it about showing off? And how does it connect with the spirit of sacrifice and sharing that the qurbani is supposed to be about? If the purpose of qurbani is sacrifice and helping the poor might it not be better to just take that money and distribute to the really needed who might find the case more helpful than a fine piece of steak? I understand the importance of ritual in any social and belief system. But the spirit of the ritual should count for more than its mechanics. No?
Now due high prices of cows, sheeps and other animals the middle class of the country does not able to complete their religious order.
Rahim Khan,
You kept on using the term “Qurbani” its an Indian
equivlent of Balidan, human sacrifice, you keep on
purposely mixing up ” Zebih” to something nothing to
do with Abrahimic act. And then the story brought/forward
by “story tellers” of street intellectuals, Bazaari Dugdugi Baz.
If you can read once again this matter in Quran then, please
comback alongwith your IBs, we can discuss together. ! ok ?
I think its not good by sacrificing this way because it includes showing off which totally move away from your noble cause of qurbani
MQ,
Its not necessary for every family to keep a goat in their home. Domesticated animals generally move in herds so its best to keep them together. Its very possible to keep a goat in a local commune with other animals, while tending to the needs of the animal ourselves. For all practical purposes, that would solve both nuisance and spirit problems.
Unfortunately nearly everyone has missed the real question in this post. Inflation or showing off?
This video and the type of bragging rights that people are trying to buy has got nothing to do with religion or eid or qurbani, this is pure showing off and rubbing ones wealth on others. Last many days all I have heard from anyone this Eid is about what they paid for their animal. SOme because they are shocked by the price and others because they want to brag about it.
I think killing these poor animals is now murder. If people really cared for the spirit of sacrifice, they woud sacrifice their wealth in ways that actually and really help the poor. Qurbani and zakat, that is the real spirit. I am sure that God is not interested in how many killos of milk and fodder my ‘janwar’ ate. The question is did our sacrifice make teh world and His people better. And this rituals are now going against the purpose of qurbani but everyone keeps doing it because “log kiya kahain gay!”