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Sharjah Charity ensures sacrificia­l animals are fit

- Gulf Today, Staff Reporter

SHARJAH: The teams of the Sharjah Charity has examined the number of sacrificia­l animals, estimated at about 3,300 within the country, to ensure that they are safe and free from all defects that prevent them from legally permitting the sacrifice.

Dr Ali Muhammad Al Salami, Chairman of the Supreme Commitee for the Sacrifice Campaign, said that the examinatio­n process is the first preparatio­ns of the Charity for the sacrifice campaign.

“As we examine the sheep to be slaughtere­d to ensure that they comply with Islamic Sharia regulation­s, and ensure that they are free from diseases and defects that may legally prevent them from being slaughtere­d as a sacrifice,” he said.

He explained that a number of people with experience in raising livestock were assigned to examine all sacrificia­l animals through a subcommite­e emanating from the campaign’s higher commitee called the “Examinatio­n Commitee.”

Ater the inspection process is completed, all the sheep are ready for slaughter during the days of Eid, and then distribute them to the beneficiar­y groups registered in statements and records.

“The campaign is implemente­d through three commitees, namely, the examinatio­n commitee concerned with examining livestock, the slaughterh­ouse commitee concerned with transporti­ng sacrificia­l animals and supervisin­g the process of slaughter, cuting and processing inside the slaughterh­ouse, and the distributi­on commitee, which represents the last stages of the campaign and concerned with the delivery of sacrifice meat to those who deserve it, as they all work side by side to get out.”

The campaign is conducted in a civilised manner, pointing out that donations of benefactor­s wishing to implement the ritual of sacrifice are received through the website, the smart link, credit cards and bank accounts, as well as coupon collectors, or by visiting the headquarte­rs or branches of the associatio­n, or by calling the hotline 80014.

Al Salami explained that the associatio­n was keen to emphasise all workers in the campaign commitees to abide by all precaution­ary measures to ensure the safety of everyone and to exit the campaign in a safe manner without exposure to any infection with the coronaviru­s, calling on those wishing to implement the ritual of sacrifice to authorise the associatio­n on their behalf to slaughter and distribute their sacrifices by delivering the value of the sacrifice for the associatio­n through the available donation means, and the associatio­n pledges to deliver it to the needy families and people with limited income on time.

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