BEIRUT: Oct. 4 will mark the first day of Eid al-Adha, the office of the late Shiite preacher Sayyed Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah announced Saturday.
The Muslim holiday of al-Adha also known as the Greater Eid is an annual holiday celebrated by Muslims worldwide in which the faithful commemorate Prophet Abraham’s willingness to sacrifice his son Ishmael as an act of obedience to God.
The three-day holiday also marks the culmination of the Muslim pilgrimage to the holy cities of Mecca and Medina in Saudi Arabia.
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