RE: Why is halal legal?
July 10, 2011 at 2:47 am
(This post was last modified: July 10, 2011 at 3:03 am by Rayaan.)
This is also found in the Quran, which is that Abraham saw in a dream that he was offering his son as a sacrifice, and he believed that it was from Allah.
So one day he told his son about the dream. Surprisingly, his son had no objection and was willing to be sacrificed as Allah had willed it. When Abraham set out to fulfill the dream, Allah told him to stop, and He brought a ram to him in the same place as a substitute for his son. Then, the ram was sacrificed instead of his son. From then on, Allah has made this ritual as a rewarding deed for all the Muslims in the future (as underlined in the verse below):
Then when (the son) reached the age of serious work with him, he said: "Oh my son! I see in vision that I offer you in sacrifice: Now see what is my view!" (The son) said: "Oh my father! Do as you are commanded: You will find me, if Allah so wills one practicing patience and constancy!" So when they had both submitted their will to Allah, and he had laid him prostrate on his forehead for sacrifice, We called out to him, "Oh Abraham! You have already fulfilled the vision!" Thus indeed do We reward those who do right. For this was obviously a trial and We ransomed him with a momentous sacrifice. And We left (this blessing) for him among generations (to come) in later times. - Surah 37, Verses 102-108.
Likewise, a Muslim feels a great sense of appreciation when he is in front of a live cattle, with a knife in his hand, while getting ready to offer the animal as a sacrifice to Allah.
The act even brings a feeling of transcending the notion of self.
So one day he told his son about the dream. Surprisingly, his son had no objection and was willing to be sacrificed as Allah had willed it. When Abraham set out to fulfill the dream, Allah told him to stop, and He brought a ram to him in the same place as a substitute for his son. Then, the ram was sacrificed instead of his son. From then on, Allah has made this ritual as a rewarding deed for all the Muslims in the future (as underlined in the verse below):
Then when (the son) reached the age of serious work with him, he said: "Oh my son! I see in vision that I offer you in sacrifice: Now see what is my view!" (The son) said: "Oh my father! Do as you are commanded: You will find me, if Allah so wills one practicing patience and constancy!" So when they had both submitted their will to Allah, and he had laid him prostrate on his forehead for sacrifice, We called out to him, "Oh Abraham! You have already fulfilled the vision!" Thus indeed do We reward those who do right. For this was obviously a trial and We ransomed him with a momentous sacrifice. And We left (this blessing) for him among generations (to come) in later times. - Surah 37, Verses 102-108.
Likewise, a Muslim feels a great sense of appreciation when he is in front of a live cattle, with a knife in his hand, while getting ready to offer the animal as a sacrifice to Allah.
The act even brings a feeling of transcending the notion of self.
