Articles by Paigham Mustafa

About Paigham Mustafa
AUTHOR Paigham Mustafa has been researching and studying the Quran since 1988 and spent over two years writing his book, The Quran: God’s Message to Mankind, published in 2016 and available from Amazon.

Hajj: Is the Animal Sacrifice Necessary?

June 30, 2022 Paigham Mustafa 0

This religious rite stems from the erroneous belief that Abraham was commanded by God to sacrifice his son, but at the last moment God sent a sheep to be killed in his place. This, it is said, was only a test, and as a mark of remembrance of this event everyone should sacrifice a sheep at God’s altar in order to appease Him.