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“On
the joyous occasion of Eid-ul-Azha, I wish to facilitate the nation and pray to
Almighty Allah to accept the prayers and sacrificial offerings of the Pakistani
nation and the Muslim Ummah to make it a source for earning Allah’s blessings,
Amen.
Hajj and Eid-ul-Azha are two
obligations which are based on the spirit of self-sacrifice. Both these
obligations relate to sacrifice of life and property. The Almighty Allah
through the Sunnah of His two great Prophets reminded the mankind that the
essence of humanity is that they subject their every act to this injunction of
the Holy Quran wherein it has been ordained:
“Indeed, my prayer, my rites of
sacrifice, my living and my dying are for Allah, Lord of the worlds”.
This spirit of worship can make this
world a heavenly place to live in because with this training mankind learns to
let go of their ego which is the real root cause of all problems. Be it our
national challenges or international crisis; if they are evaluated minutely one
finds that ego has been at the core of every issue. Therefore it is imperative
to seek Allah Almighty’s blessings by sacrificing our ego to make this world a
place of heavenly abode.
On this auspicious occasion of
Eid-ul-Azha, acting in the spirit of sacrifice we must look after our those
brethren who, oppressed by the vicissitudes of life, have lagged behind
economically. We should also remember in our prayers all those sons of soil and
their families who sacrificed their present for our future. Similarly we should
also offer special prayers for our Kashmiri brethren who are valiantly striving
to win freedom from the occupying force.
I pray that Almighty Allah bless us with the real joys of Eid-ul-Azha and enable us to understand the obligation of sacrifice in its true spirit to benefit from its hidden blessings. Amen.”
NOT TO BE PUBLISHED,
BROADCAST OR TELECAST BEFORE THE MORNING OF 2ND SEPTEMBER 2017 10TH
ZILHAJJ 1438 HIJRI.