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AlGhazalisIhya-Book_of_Mysteries_of_Pilgrimage, page : 33
of the hearts.” (Koran Ch. 22 verse 32)
Have been interpreted as referring to the choice of a fine fat sacrificial animal.
It is preferable to drive the offering in from the assembly point, provided this is
not too inconvenient and troublesome. One should refuse to pay sales taxes, for
three things get over priced and reprehensively taxed; offerings, sacrificial
slaughtering and slaves to be emancipated, since the best of these are the
costliest and most precious to their owners.
According to Ibn Umar, Umar was going to sacrifice a Bactrian camel. He was
offered a price of three hundred dinars, so he asked The Messenger of Allah,
praise and peace be upon him, if he should sell it and use the money to buy
several other animals, but he told him not to do that, saying: “No sacrifice it!”
The reason for this is that a little of what is excellent is better than much of what
is inferior. Thirty beasts could have been purchased for three hundred dinars,
which would have represented a lot of meat. But the meat is not the object. The
object is to purify the soul, to cleanse it of stinginess and to adorn it with the
Have been interpreted as referring to the choice of a fine fat sacrificial animal.
It is preferable to drive the offering in from the assembly point, provided this is
not too inconvenient and troublesome. One should refuse to pay sales taxes, for
three things get over priced and reprehensively taxed; offerings, sacrificial
slaughtering and slaves to be emancipated, since the best of these are the
costliest and most precious to their owners.
According to Ibn Umar, Umar was going to sacrifice a Bactrian camel. He was
offered a price of three hundred dinars, so he asked The Messenger of Allah,
praise and peace be upon him, if he should sell it and use the money to buy
several other animals, but he told him not to do that, saying: “No sacrifice it!”
The reason for this is that a little of what is excellent is better than much of what
is inferior. Thirty beasts could have been purchased for three hundred dinars,
which would have represented a lot of meat. But the meat is not the object. The
object is to purify the soul, to cleanse it of stinginess and to adorn it with the