THE SACRIFICE FEAST

Turkish culture is full of colourful festivals.One of them is the celebration of the moslem festival of the sacrifices.This is a religious festival celebrated by Muslims as a commemoration of Prophet Ibrahim’s willingness to sacrifice his son Ismail for God.On that day,Muslims who can afford to do sacrifice their best domestic animals(usually sheep but also camels ,cows and goats) as a symbol of Ibrahim’s sacrifice.The excitement of this day starts days before and in excitement Muslims make their preparetions.

To get ready for this feast,there are many things to do.Firstly; you need to buy an animal to sacrifice.This is the most important thing because the sacrificed animals have to meet certain age and quality standards or else the animal is considered an unacceptable sacrifice another reason is that animals are getting more and more expensive as the time gets closer.However ; you can buy your animal days before if you have a place to look after it and then it becomes cheaper for you.When it comes to the other things that need to be bought ,especially for children candies are bought and for the visiters desserts are maked or bought.Therefore;preparetions go on like that until the feast day.


When the feast day comes everybody in the family wakes up early and men, women,and children expected to dress in their finest clothing.Later ,for the feast pray everbody goes to mosque.It is the most important part of the day.After praying everbody in the mosque celebrate their feast then they go to their homes to sacrifice the animal.During the sacrifice religional things are said.After the sacrifice people invite their neighbour or their relatives to eat meal because according to the Quran a large portion of the meat has to be given to the poor and hungry people and the remainder is cooked for the family celebration meal in which relatives, neighbours and friends are invited to share.After meal people are prepared to visit their relatives and friends.

This feast last three days and during this time people visit each other to celebrate their feast.With visiting each other people make their family relations more powerful and also they get a change to see each other and younger people are expected to visit older ones.They give importance to visiting so much that ıf someone doesn’t visit them from their family they think that they are not respected by their young family members and they are offended so parents always demand their children visit their family members.

In conclusion ,Sacrifice Feast is very important for Turkısh people and for all the Muslims and they start to prepare for this feast days before .Sacrifice feast lasts three days and during these days they are expected to visit each other to celebrate their feast .Moreover; they help poor people.Thanks to this feast people remember why they live and the aim of living because we all know that the death is closer to us than everything and we aware of this with the sacrifice feast.