Eid Sheep

[Muh and me 18]

Does anyone else here Husbands have to buy a sheep for Eid for another poor family in their country?

Kamal is telling me its gonna cost us $400. this year for a sheep in Morocco! That just seems to be an awful lot of money.

[UmmSqueakster 54]

Traditionally, one slaughters a sheep for Eid al Adha, the next Eid, and not Eid al Fitr. Maybe it's a tradition in Morocco though? We usually do it through Islamic Relief, and it's never over $200, even in the countries where animals are most expensive (usually Palestine and Bosnia if I remember correctly).

One thing he should be worrying about right now is Zakat al Fitr, that needs to be paid before the Eid prayer.

[Ban Hammer 13,346]

Does anyone else here Husbands have to buy a sheep for Eid for another poor family in their country?

Kamal is telling me its gonna cost us $400. this year for a sheep in Morocco! That just seems to be an awful lot of money.

wait till you see the prices of sheep in arkansas around senior prom night.

[MrsAmera 41]

As rahma said no sheep for this Eid, it's the next one. But $400 is about the going price for a good sheep there. That works out to something like 2800 dH, I think when we bought 2 sheep in March for my son's aqeeka it was like 5000 dH for both of them.

If you're donating money towards sheep through a relief agency the price could be less. My basis is on a family actually buying the sheep in Morocco themselves.

[doodlebugg 10]

Traditionally, one slaughters a sheep for Eid al Adha, the next Eid, and not Eid al Fitr. Maybe it's a tradition in Morocco though? We usually do it through Islamic Relief, and it's never over $200, even in the countries where animals are most expensive (usually Palestine and Bosnia if I remember correctly).

One thing he should be worrying about right now is Zakat al Fitr, that needs to be paid before the Eid prayer.

According to that site, when I press the determine my zakah amount button, I have to have over a certain amount stashed away before I can even think of giving zakat, correct? That's above and beyond what I have for my current expenses.

[Muh and me 18]

Yes its for the next Eid not this one. He already knows of a poor family that he is buying for. I just thought that $400 was a little high.

[brnidokiegurl 0]

we do buy along with his family there and ours goes to kids at orphanage i have not idea of price tho

[morocco4ever 63]

According to my husband paying up to $300 to $350 isn't too much to expect for the top quality sheep if you are in one of the larger cities such as Rabat or Casablanca. This is because they have to bring the sheep into the city. He said that if you go to one of the small farm cities where they raise the sheep you can get a better price. Of course he hasn't been there for almost 2 years, so things could have changed.

[tenderheartusa79 14]

inshallah i will buy one(hopefully) but i will not give it all to a poor family

it should be like 3 parts one for your self and one for your family and your friends and the last part for poor people .

here it Egypt its about 300 bucks for good sheep

[LRA 0]

I pay 180 to 200 US $ per sheep in Jordan.....for a nice sized Balad sheep (local). I like going around to deliver the meat myself along with tea, sugar, and rice. My very own United Way.

The zakat in Jordan I think is usually 8 JD per family member...usually we just have my grandpa give it to some poor neighbors.

Mosques in the US also collect zakat before the Eid prayer.

[AlHayatZween 2]

hmmmmm... that seems a little high... i think we paid @ 2,000 dirhams last Eid...

but that was also in the compagnie, so probably a lot cheaper there...