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People buy sacrificial goats at a make-shift sacrificial animals market established for Eid-ul-Azha at Old Delhi. An Indian vendor waits for customers to sell his goats at a market ahead of the sacrificial Eid al-Adha festival in Old Delhi.Indian Muslims choose goats in a cattle market before Eid al-Adha festival in Old Delhi, India. Eid al-Adha, also called Feast of the Sacrifice, the Major Festival, the Greater Eid, Kurban Bayram and Bakrid, is an important religious holiday celebrated by Muslims worldwide to honour the willingness of the prophet ʾIbrāhīm (Abraham) to sacrifice his young first-born son Ismā'īl (Ishmael)a as an act of submission to God's command and his son's acceptance to being sacrificed, before God intervened to provide Abraham with a ram to sacrifice instead. In the l