Thursday, November 26, 2009
Wealth distribution and Eids
As muslims in Saudi Arabia celebrate the yearly muslim festival of Eid and people in my area eagerly await for it (Eid is tomorrow!!), I ponder about the tradition associated with Eid-ul-Azha i-e sacrifice. While my family has not been lucky enough to observe this tradition every year but we have been able to perform this sacrifice whenever our finances gave us leeway. I am thinking about its implications as a way to reduce the difference between rich and poor so as they can enjoy the Eid equally. Since most of the people in my country rarely get to eat any meat, it is a delicacy in every sense of the word: so sacrificing an animal and giving its meat to the poor is indeed a genuine effort to ameliorate their constraints on enjoyment due to financial limitations (Here, I assume that eating meat is an enjoyment for the poor which I think it is).However,putting away my rosy-coloured spectacles, I see a lot of people not observing the tradition with its purest objective, either they do not give away the portion of meat to poors or save the best for themselves. I think this is the fault in the basic aim of a sacrifice:had it been any simple animal slaughter,giving away some meat to the poor would have been scarcely necessary. Since this is THE Sacrifice, I think it is imperative for us to not to discriminate.And it is through this equal distribution only that we can achieve our much sought after aim of reducing disparity between rich and poor.
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