This is the end of the Islamic holiday known as Eid al-Adha. It's a four-day celebration, one of the biggest of the year for Muslims around the world. It commemorates a story that is also familiar to Christians and Jews. The story involves the prophet Abraham, who is important to all three faiths. God instructs Abraham to prove his obedience by sacrificing his son. Abraham prepares to do it, and then God lets him sacrifice a sheep instead. Today, Muslims celebrate by sacrificing a sheep or goat and sharing the meat with the poor, and on this holiday millions of Muslims are in the Saudi Arabian city of Mecca, where the month of the annual pilgrimage, or hajj, is also ending.
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