Although sacrificial animal markets and bakery outlets were thronged by buyers on Wednesday, Eid eve shopping remained a low-key affair in Kashmir this year.
Eid-ul-Azha or the Bakr Eid as the festival is called is celebrated by Muslims World over to commemorate the son’s sacrifice, Prophet Ibrahim decided to offer on the dictates of Allah.
Pleased with his ultimate obedience and submission, Allah ordered a lamb from Heaven to replace the son, Ismail under the father’s knife.
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Ibrahim had blindfolded himself while trying to slaughter his son, when he found a lamb under the blade and the son smiling some distance away, the celebrations that followed are commemorated by Muslims in Eid-ul-Azha.
Sacrificial animals from different parts of the country, including Rajasthan have been brought here for sale, but the buyers are few and far between as locals allege that the rates the sellers ask are totally unreasonable.
“There is no uniformity in the rates. From 350 per kg of a live animal to 650 per kg are asked by sellers,” said a buyer who went to five animal markets to buy sheep.
Local mutton dealers are saying that the rates of sacrificial animals are an agreement between the seller and the buyer.
The government has already stopped regulating the rates of mutton and poultry in the UT. This has created a market that must find its own stability.
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