Wednesday, January 29, 2014
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In accordance with their isolation life style, the observance of holidays is not important to the Druze. They do hold religious festivals though yearly in which most celebrate joyously and recognize holy men and women and prophets. With this being said, there is one Islamic holiday that the Druze to participate in and that is Eid al Adha. They see this holiday as a time to give thanks to God for his mercy and kindness. Eid al Adha occurs at the end of the hajj, or the pilgrimage to mecca, and is a festival of sacrifice. It marks the moment when the Lord came to Abraham and told him to sacrifice his son. Many like to sacrifice an animal in commemoration of this in addition to celebrations in the streets.
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I am so accustomed to each religion or group of people having their set customs and holidays that it is so interesting to me that the Druze do not really have their own holidays that they can identify with or that they choose to identify with, but that they adopt one of a similar religion. To me, it is a whole new way at looking at how religion functions.
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