When is Eid Al-Adha 2025?
Incoming public holiday…
If you’re spending Eid Al Adha 2025 in the Kingdom, this is just the article for you. The holiday is fast approaching early next month, and you’re going to want to mark your calendars for this. When is Eid Al-Adha 2025, you may ask? Read on to find out more.
Eid Al Adha 2024, also known as the Feast of Sacrifice, is expected to come up on Friday June 6, with Arafat Day happening a day earlier on Thursday June 5.
Eid Al-Adha is the second of the two main holidays celebrated in Islam. But like Eid Al-Fitr, the exact dates for Eid Al-Adha depend on the moon’s sighting and will be confirmed closer to the time.
In the Islamic lunar calendar, Eid Al Adha falls on the tenth day of Dhu al-Hijjah and lasts for three days. The holiday commemorates Prophet Ibrahim’s (Abraham) willingness to obey God by sacrificing his son. God then provided him with a lamb to sacrifice in his son’s place.
Animals are now sacrificed to commemorate the occasion, and the meat is divided into three portions: one portion is for friends and relatives, one is for the sacrificer and his family, while the rest of the meat is distributed to the poor and the needy.
The festival is preceded by the annual religious pilgrimage, Hajj. The rites of pilgrimage are performed over five to six days, extending from the 8th to the 13th of Dhu al-Hijjah.
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