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holds. It is preferable to slaughtertheanimal of Sacrifice on the
Id Day after Prayers. But if it is slaughtered on the second or
the third day, it will be accepted. With regard to the meats of
the slaughtered animals the Glorious Qur*an stipulates these
instructions:
"Eat of them and feed the poor man who i s
contented and the beggar..."
(22:36)
In the same reference, the Glorious Qur'an declares that
God is neither interested in nor does He get the meats of the
oblations or their blood; but it is the piety of His worshipers
that He gets and is interested in.
It should be repeated that the 'Id prayers do not substitute
for the obligatory Early Morning (Fajr) Prayers, and cannot
themselves be substituted for by any other Prayers.
The Takbeer, which is said before the Prayers of both
'Ids and after ordinary congregations offered during the three
days following the Second '/ J> a s t i> J *- o ^ j i
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