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MADHENU
Eid day. These are the things, which are most loved living a life. Sacrificing these loved things and distributing them among the needy is truly religion."
The thought of giving away food, wealth or clothes on a festive day is the value of Indian culture.
Sacrifice is but another word for renunciation. If on a festive day we renounce our passions, vile thoughts and sins then the Lord would inspire us to replace them with virtues.
The scientists too have upheld the fact that meat is not the suitable food for humans. Non-vegetarian food is damaging the physiological and psychological health of humans. Non-vegetarianism and animal sacrifice is also responsible for ecological imbalance.
If the Sufi saints and the religious leaders of Islam were to preach the true meaning of Qoran, then it would be a blessing for the entire living kingdom of this Universe.
The former Imam of the 'Shahjahan Mosque' of England, Khalhafiz Bashir Ahmed Majri in his book 'Janwaron ke bare mein Islami nazariya' (Islamic viewpoint about animals) - has, with the help of over a 100 extracts from the holy Qoran and about 50 extracts from the Dahiz, put forth the Islamic view that the behaviour of humans should be of love, compassion and respect towards animals. If all the temples, the Mahadev Temples, Jain Temples, Mosques, Gurudwaras, Ashrams and Prayer / Meditation halls were to repeatedly state the principle of 'Live and Let Live', 'Every life has the right to coexist' and spread the message of love and compassion towards all living beings, if this message were to echo from all religious centres, then it would
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