Bakra Eid

Sehar · February 19, 2002, 8:02am

sigh The good ol’ days.

I haven’t spend an Eid, bari ya choti, in Pakistan in a long time. Aur jaisa ke bakra eid ki amad amad hai, I can’t help but think about childhood bakra eids in Pakistan.

My dada abbu used to go to the mandi and get ourselves a nice healthy and changa takra bakra for the qurbani. Our other relatives in the neighboring houses would do the same. After that we’d all(kids) ‘show maar’ our bakras to see who’s was the best looking one and the healthiest one. The bakra was obviously bought a few days before eid, so everday in the evening all the grown up boy cousins (about 11+ years of age) would take the bakras ‘chaaring’.

I was always forbidden to go since i was the only girl and a bit younger too, but i’d throw a fit and go anyway, only to make sure to stay at a safe distance just incase the bakra decided to misbehave. We’d walk the bakras thru the fields and find the best-est ‘pathay’ for them. We’d have our moments as well. We’d constantly threaten each other by saying that we’d loosen the bakra if someone did not obey the ‘rules’ and if someone released any group info at home. The rules were set for stealing (not literally since the baaghs were our own

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) the unripened mangoes and jamuns and cheeku from the baaghs. If anyone ever caught, they’d never tell on anyone else no matter what happens, bass ek do chappairaN hi payN giyaN, khaa leyo. If anyone did tell on anyone else, they’d be ostracized and would get the royal treatment. And this would continue till the eve before Eid.

The night before eid, we’d ‘ghool’ the mehndi and make various phool bootay on the bakray, being careful at each application that the bakra doesn’t shiver and splatter it all over the place as well as kick someone in the stomach or elswhere. By this time, most of us would be attached to the bakras and be a lil sad a knowning what would be happening to the bakras the next day. But i guess all the money you get the next day would make everything just fine.

Do share your bakra eid stories.

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Anchal · February 19, 2002, 8:45am

spent one Bakra Eid in Pak and all i remember is my lil bro crying zaar-o-qatar, dharain mar mar kay when they qasai took out his knife
it was all downhill after that, his hichkian could be heard throughout the day and nobody dared asking him if he'd like some champs for dinner

My memory is not that good either, we were sent to distribute the meat to the mohalla and infront of every house there were spare parts of the bakra, gai, sheep with makhian having a blast
And aunty who has a green thumb decided she is going to feed her plants with the oojri
So the place smelt like hell

The cow in mid qurbani somehow escaped and got up and ran away with blood dripping from its split neck. It only went a few yards. Poor thing
It was the same cow that was taken out a few days before qurbani for a walk and then refused to come back home. Not knowing what to do, we offered her 7-Up

ahmadjee · February 19, 2002, 2:54pm

It used to be like a 'maila' when all my 6 chachas & 2 phophos would come to 'pind' along with their families! My b-b-g (dadi amma) would be sooo happy to see us all there!

That also meant that it will be a cow for qurbani rather than a few goats.

Being the youngest the elder cousins of mine would never let me walk the bakra/gaayay around for 'show maring'. Mostly I was ordered to bring him pathay & water. The biggest problem would be to name the blessed thing. No one would agree, even though they all knew it really didn't matter as he would be in our dinner plates in a few days.

Kids were not allowed at the qurbani site as the parents didn't want to look at their sad faces throughout Eid, but I would pitch a fit (again trying to show maring) that I can handle the scene. Even though I wanted, they would never let me zibah the qurbani! Mostly I would be assigned to hold the legs tight. Bakras were ok to hold but man some mujjs can really show some strength!

I will post some pictures in IMG if I can find them!

p.s: Sehar, when did you start writing like Sabah baji? :-P

cool_down · February 19, 2002, 6:03pm

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Munni · February 19, 2002, 6:13pm

I remember the only Eid I had where I had seen a bukra slaughtered in Uncles backyard. I thought it was so cool that they had a bakra for a pet, little did I know bakra was going to end up on the table later that afternoon. All the kids (I was about 12) played with the bakra and then we went inside for some rest. Upon coming outside I saw the bakra hanging upside-down, on its way to being gutted. I asked ammie that late-afternoon where the meat came from that we were about to eat. After Ammie told me, I told myself I would not eat bakra again. I didnt eat dinner that night. Took me years to get over it. sigh

Learn to love yourself, then learn to love one-another

Sehar · February 20, 2002, 4:59am

Ahmadjee

‘maila’ it was sigh I’ve been wanting to put up pinD pictures, just haven’t gotten to it yet.

Me writing like sabah baji? Wo mujh se kaiyee guna behtar likhti haiN.

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ChannMahi · February 20, 2002, 5:45pm

Sehar, that was a nice writeup.....I particularly enjoyed the scenary of green fields, baagh, bakra chaaring etc etc.

I have never seen the Eid stuff but I have seen bakras slauthered. My first one was when one of my cousins was getting married. I was only 5 or 6. Early in the morning the day baraat was to arrive I saw few guys gathered about 200 yards away from our house in the farm at the place where we had the "Vailna"(sugar cane wala)...So I and some other kids gathered there too as something was to happen there. They brought 3 bakras that we had bought few months ago and were raising with good 'pathay'...these were the only bakray we had in our cattle so it was nice to wrestle with them and stretch their ears while feed them pathay..
Anyway, it was quick to be precise. One of the guys had his talwaar in hand, first bakra was brought in the open, he raised his talwaar and very quickly struck on bakra's neck. Bakra fell down in 2 pieces, the dhaRh was jumping up and down a little but couple of men held him down..it was cold in about a minute. Then they did the same with the second one and third one. That place looked like a battle field...It was really very shocking for me as a kid to see the lynching of bakras...later in the evening when we were ready to eat lunch, I felt a little guilty for the bakras but the dish was too tasty to think about bakras very long.

Qrius · February 20, 2002, 10:52pm

I was extremely happy to read this thread coz i had been missing pakistan and my childhood memories of baqr-eid for past few days sigh

Thanks all, for the nice contribution. Loved reading every post

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Few days before eid sometimes my dada or chacha used to go to bakra mandi to buy bakras. Every time me and my brother used to fight over the declaration of healthiest bakra as “ours”. It used to be so much fun going to main road with my chacha to buy “chara”. I used to be the darpok kid so i used to feed them 5 feets away from where they were. Then our special qasai uncle used to come from bhawalpur few days ahead of eid. He used to tell me all these scary stories of cow slaughters. Being the Qrius kid that i was i always used to enjoy the zabiha time..i often used to sit with qasai uncles..but i never used to eat the lunch that day. By evening i used to be fine. I miss all the chapain, masala raan , fried gurday, tikka boti etc now.

Now here comes my bakra stories, one time i fed the barka some peanuts and

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it started sneezing.

When i was 6 years old, once i went with my dadi to buy a bakra in our van and she was sitting with my phupho in the front seat..and i was sitting in the back seat..and on every speed breaker those bakras and their faces just used to come near my face and i would just go nuts by screaming out loud. Haha, i was afraid of them. After that eid nobody ever took me for bakra shopping.

Now this is the funniest thing i ever did, one time i was charraying a bakra with my dada in the backyard..and somehow the string of the bakra slipped out of my hand..

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i got frightened and i just ran away and the bakra was running after me..i came in the kitchen and locked the backyard door. For 10 minutes my dada was asking me to open the door from outside but i never did until my ammi went and opened the door for dada

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I have one more bakra story which i’ll tell some other day

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Keep these stories coming folks

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FYI · February 22, 2002, 3:47pm

Sehar

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Very nice write up.You need to keep writing longer & longer narratives like this .Although i myself am not a good writer but i know it needs lot of practice & encouragement.Iam biased in my opion that women /girls make better writer because of patience ,attention to details ,artistic sensibilities , aesthetic sense ,better vocabulary & faster flow of verbal syllables syntax etc.

Happy Iddul ADDHA to all

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Is it Idul Addha …Arabic pronunciation

Iduz Zoha …Kichre impure indian sub continent pronunciation

Baqri Eid …This is only in indian subcontinent ,AFIK.

Am i correct ?

Camel ,Cow ,7 units of qurbani

Sheep goat etc =i unit of qurbani also known as UDHIYA in M.E.

WE had Eid Ul Addha Namaaz to day …

I like all eid though …some Pakistani i see ridiculing Idul Addha as Joke & think Killing Animal as inhuman.I dont get it everybody kills animals for meat whats so wrong about doing it as symbol of sacrifice …remember how Ismael son of Abraham was saved by a sheep in his place .So we all feel grateful to allah that instead of asking us for real human sacrifice which he would never for ouir god ..Allah is benefecient & mercifull not angry & cruel towards us.Subhan allah jazak Allah Khaira shukaran

Do you know what this means

KURBAN BAYRA MINZ MUBAREK OLSUM

IT MEANS IDUL ADDHA MUBAREK

DO you have any idea which muslim country sayz this?

For Answer P.M. me ..

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hayaa · February 25, 2002, 2:40am

I think I can only recall one bakra eid having spent in pakistan. My phuppho’s kids were over and the bakras were purchased a week well in advance, we fed the bakras till they were tired of eating. Climbing trees, getting leaves from the highest branches, I remember, one of them only liked to feed on the lemon tree leaves

And then I remember, on the morning of eid, walking in to our backyard right in the middle of the slaughtering with three men holding one of the bakras down, blood oozing out of its throat, its body jerking to get away. I was traumatized for a few days. But after a few nightmares I think I got over it.
It just taught me not to get too attached to animals after that

But I wont ever forget the most beautiful green eyed bakra abbu brought home in riyadh, we tied it in one of our bathrooms those two days were quite a thing. I lost sleep over the fact that the bakra wasn’t eating anything, and the fact that its cheeks always seemed wet, I believed it used to cry and that was just painful. We got the molvi saab that used to teach us Quran in the evenings, to pray for it and do a nazar-utaaring dam on it

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Sadly it didn’t do the bakra any good. Poor baby, he was always just so sad

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Ah.

Anchal · February 26, 2002, 7:05am

kabhi bakray ko chanay khilai hain hateeli par rakh kar?

Man the sensation, I had the pleasure* once and its the next best thing to getting your toes licked

PS. All Pun Intended

Khanzada · February 26, 2002, 6:55pm

On AJ's request (read command!), i am reproducing here what i posted in the cafe 2 days back. Hope (not!) some of you would be able to relate!

This Eid, i'd like to share with you the experience that i have had while out shopping for a 'decent' gaey.

Though i am a bit late, but i think sharing would help ease off the pain (*cries: Haaeeey!)

It was about 4-5 days before eid that my friend Zia and I decided to goto the Bakra Mandi to buy ourselves a shareef-miskeen gaey. It was after maghrib that he and I hitch-hiked on a suzuki carry (that was being used for carrying sacrificial animals)from Ayesha Manzil to the Bakra Mandi.

My god! I never felt SO close to mother nature before in my life. Saari suzuki ghaas aur kisi aur cheez ki bheeni bheeni khushbau se mehek rahi thi. Poora rasta naak pakar pakar kar aur driver ko kostay huay hum loug mandi pauhanchay. Ajab din ka sa samaan tha. Jidhar nazar dalo, insaan, janwaroon ki khidmat main lagay nazar aate thay.

Hum gayon ke section ki taraf barhay. Wahan jee, pakistan ke har hisse aur kone kone se jaanwar aaye huay thay...main ne punjab se aaye huay azeem-ul-jussa qisam ke bael jab dekhay to kaanp he gaya aur baja tor par samajh lagg gaey ke main to waqai tinka hoon un ke saamne!

Wahan par haathi ke size se laikar bakri ke barabar, har size ki he gaey mojoud thein. My friend is supposedly an expert in negotiation and bargaining so i let him had his way with the animal owners.

A typical conversation follows:

Zia: Haan saein...bachra hae ke bachia hai? (seems pretty idiotic question, hena?)
Owner: Saab, bachra hai.
Zia: Do daant, chaar daant? (as if ke usay Macleans ke naey ad main model lena ho!)
Owner: Do/chaar daant
Owner: saab bilkul miskeen hai. Is par haath pher kar dekhein..bachon ki dost hai (demonstrates the chummi-ness of the gaey by rubbing it passionately)
Zia: Kitnay lete ho? (so carelessly as if he was out there buying sabzi)
Owner: 18 hazaar (18,000)
Zia: 11,000 (oh! now that's guts!)
Owner: (mutters some unprintable words) and asks us to move forward

Kaafi jaga isi qisam ke be-izzati se do chaar ho kar hum loug aik jaga pauhanchay jahan aik gaey is shaan-e-benayazi se khari thi, jaisay saari dunya us ki nazar main heech ho. Zia ne pyar se us par abhi haath phera he tha, ke us ne Zedani ke tarha aise shandaar side-kick zia ko inayat ki ke woh duur parey bhoosay ke dhair main ja gira. Main ne daur kar usay sambhala. Main aur woh, us gaey ki shaan main qaseeday gaatey huay aage barh gaey.

Bilakhir, aik jaga sauda hota nazar aaya. Jab baat cheet ihar tak pauhanchee ke:

Owner: 14,000
Zia: 11,000 (yahan par hamari sui atak gai thi, kyonke itnay he paisay hamari jaib main thay)

..to main ne intervene kia. Main ne owner, jis ka naam Qadir Buz tha, se jaa kar us ka hasb-nasb poocha aur zabardasti us ko apna duur paar ka rishtay daar bana lia. Phir usay thanday (pepsi) ke offer ki. Finally woh maan gaya at 11,000.

Is baat par zia yakdum youn zameen par chipak gaya, aur gaey ko aisay neechay ghoor ghoor kar dekhnay laga, goya ke nizaam-e-shamsi main koi naya sayyara daryaft kar raha ho.

Gaey ka poora check up kar lene ke baad (jis main kaafi saare physical tests bhi shaamil thay), us ki tassali hui.

Main jaatay huay Qadir Bux se aisay galey mila, jaisay rukhsati ke waqt beti, maan se milti hai. Agli dafa milne ke bauaht se wadon ke saath hum usay alwida keh kar aa gaey.

Uf, wapas aa kar main ne jaisay he ghar main ghusnay ki koshish ki to HUSH! kar ke mujhay bhaga dia gaya. Bari mushkil se ghar walon ko yaqeen dilaya, ke yeh bheeni bheeni khushboo se mehekta hua, un ka apna he laal aur jigar ka tukra hai. Qasam se, itni KHUSHBAU aa rahi thi mere paas se doston ke koi hadd nahin. Ghoray ko nahlaane wale brush se ragar ragar kar apne aap ko teen ghantay tak dhota raha, tab kahin jaa kar khushbau gai.

It's a worthwhile experience here in Karachi. I am not too sure how you guys go about doing it over there. I'd be interested to know.

...and yes, btw, welcome me coz this is the first time i am visiting this particular forum

/me a lil nervous
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Kambakht Ishq!

cool_down · February 27, 2002, 3:18pm

khanzada

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Roman · February 27, 2002, 3:21pm

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Originally posted by Anchal:
**kabhi bakray ko chanay khilai hain hateeli par rakh kar?

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Nahi. Lekin khud zaroor khaayay heiN - well, from hathailee too.

isloo_ki_anarkali · February 27, 2002, 4:14pm

when I was a little girl, my chacho would take all us kids to buy bakras…it was so much fun… he would be choosing bakras, checking teeth etc etc…and we would be mimicking all his moves…adn teh helpers that he brought along to help transport the bakras would always be running around after us…once at my grandparents place…we d feed them with their grub bottles (which were roof hafza bottles with nipples on them)…we fed them so much that once one bakra got diarrhea on chand raat and my phopho restored it to health with ORS

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…since my grandparents live in the inner city..with a huge barsaaati…all the relatives in fancy shmancy houses in fancy shmancy places would leave their bakras in my grand parents place…and man was that fun…all the kids would have a blast cos there were enuff bakras for each kid to have one

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…teh best was to see whose bakra went under the knife the last…that was fun!..much more fun than having to clean distribute and cook teh meat as a grown up (pata nahin kyun galta nahin gosht!)

If truth is knowledge, knowledge is power, and power corrupts, then are
all the liars in the world really the good guys?..*

Anchal · February 27, 2002, 10:08pm

Roman = Mota Taza Bakra
Anchal = Kasai

Roman · February 28, 2002, 1:16pm

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*Roman = Mota Taza Bakra
Anchal = Kasai *
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pathwari, thanks for not sharing any 'churri' jokes with us.

Anchal · February 28, 2002, 2:25pm

scared?

cool_down · March 1, 2002, 3:04pm

aancal yah achi baat nahi

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Yusuf_Khan · March 2, 2002, 1:02am

Aanchal

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OMG..that reminded me of …

You know who was caught sucking toe of a pros.in a motel in Washington???

ick (Richard) Morris ,Clintons close confidante who advised him in state matters !

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