CIOG President, Fazeel Ferouz, has extended Eid Mubarak greetings to the nation and is encouraging the Muslim community to submit themselves to Allah’s commands to reverse the chaotic changes taking place worldwide.
According to a press release from the Central Islamic Organisation of Guyana (CIOG) Eid-ul-Adha commemorates one of the greatest acts of sacrifice in the annals of human history. Ferouz said it honours Abraham and Hagar’s faith in God when they were told to sacrifice their son Ishmael, and were instead given a lamb. He said the Prophet Muhammad then included this sacrifice in the Hajj rituals in the annual pilgrimage to Mecca and encourages Muslims to follow the prophet’s example.
The CIOG president said today the world is chaotic with the impact of global warming, climate change and pandemics like HIV/AIDS and widespread substance abuse and violence taking its toll. He said it “is indeed a sad and depressing picture when we look at the significant advances made by mankind over the last fifty years in almost every field of human endeavour.” Ferouz said mankind seems to be “descending lower and lower in our care, concern and love for each other, for peace, for justice and equality, for protecting human dignity” and in order to reverse this trend man needs to submit, sincerely, to the prophet’s commands.
Ferouz said as Muslims carry out their sacrifice, they must remind themselves that if they are to be a part of making changes they must also sacrifice evil ways and tendencies and prejudices; racial, religious and ethnic. Muslims must also ask the prophet to make them “instruments of change that will deliver mankind from the degradation it is in.”
