Cutting Qurbani Meat for Eid Ul Adha

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I asked this question in the other thread already but I guess I just need to start another thread.

We are doing Qurbani here in US & I need tips on how to mix up the Bakra properly so we can give good meat to others, as well as have good meat for our home.

What do we tell our butcher. How should they cut the meat for us?

We are doing 2 bakras. I do plan on making a whole leg roast & then I plan on making liver in green masala & also chops (the typical fried champain)

So keeping that in mind how should the bakra meat be distributed?

Gracias in advance.

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At my mom's place, we have 3 goats done every year so we keep one bakra for distributing among relatives,one for the poor and needy and one for home and get the meat cut/packed accordingly.

At IL's we cut the meat of all of it , no leg/raan for roast aside or separated out, mix ALL of it including liver,etc, weigh, divide into 3 equal portions, and THEN the part for relatives and own use is sorted out for cooking/distributing/freezing,etc with keeping the liver,etc aside. The concept is that we cannot keep the whole legs/chops/boneless for qeema,etc for us and give away the portion meant for the poor/needy from what we consider we dont need out of the meat. We do a separate bakra for home,whole legs,etc but that is not with niyat of qurbani. It is just that when we are buying the goat,and doing all the hardwork of zabeeha and cutting meat,etc, we make use of that for storing and getting meat for own use/daawat. hope that makes sense :)

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It does makes sense Proto. Thank you :)

But I am also a little confused now. So Islamically we are supposed to divide the meat equally? I know its three parts but it should be equally divided?

I mean if its 2 bakras that means 8 legs. So even if we keep 1 out of those 8 legs & mix the rest of the meat would that be wrong?

Also the liver part. Is that considered better meat than the other body parts?

Also to the US Guppies. Where the heck do we find needy people here? I mean its not like other times where I can go donate to a local shelter. How do guys manage to give the meat to needy people here?

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You have the option of keeping the entire meat to yourself but it's better to divide it in 3 parts, one for yourself, one for relatives, and one for the needy. But if you kept the entire meat for yourself, that's allowed, and if you gave away all of it that's also fine too but again it is mustahab to divide in 3 parts and get sawab for it.

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^ Jazak Allah Khair. We do plan on dividing it in 3 parts but Prototype's post got me confused about making sure than even the organs are divided into three parts.

No one here has ever ordered a bakra here in US?

The rare times when we make goat me is always from goat leg so I have no idea how to get the meat cut up.

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We do Qurbani here too. We ask the butcher to divide it all into 3 parts and if there is anything specific like liver or something we want, we tell him put it in our bag. For the needy, we give their part in Masjid... almost all masjids take meat. For the friends/relatives (because we don't know as many people), we invite few friends we know and cook their dinner/lunch to use their hissa.

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^ Thank you Spiral :) How is it going?

Thank you very much in fact. I like the inviting friends over & cooking the meat. We know quite some people here so we will be distributing the meat.

I am going to ask my husband to call the Masjids here & ask around.

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We die qurbani this year for the first time and it was so...

The meat shop person, got the bakra, did the qurbani on our name, cleaned the bakra and brought it to their shop from outside of town, strick rules here as a vet has to be present at the time of qurbani too. It was around 9pm that the bakra came home, luckly the butcher cut it into large pieces so that hubby had to cut some more and then we had a huge pile of meat on our counter.

Then I got my weighting machine and before we cut it in to small pieces we weighted the whole meat, it was in 2 big bags, cleaned meat was 16.5 kg in total, so hubby made small pieces out of it and I took a big bowl and placed it on the scale and so thats how we divided the meat into 3 parts, here we added liver and heart into all pieces, infact I didnt keep liver, as dont like it...

After the meat was divided into 3 parts, I had a list of names to whom we would distrube meat to, just family and family friends, friends mostly that lived close by ..

about 10 parts were made beside the meat for the needy, that was put aside, as it was more ppl that we were giving, we gave meat out of our portion too as I wanted to give everyone enough meat for atleast one fullfilling meal .. so we kept 2-3kgs at home for us, rest was distriuted.for the distribution I put the meat in a freezer bag, that on a paper plate and then wrapped it with transparent paper and a tie out of decoration ribbon, looked quite nice :)

then we called this pakistani person, on refugee who delivers us pizza somtimee, he lives with other ppl such as him, we called him and he came right after duty .. around 11:30 pm to pick up the meat we had for the needy. why him must ask, of course they are working but not really earning a lot and sometimes without papers and their future is insecure and his case was rejected so he was in the edge of being deported, i mean no one is poor here as ppl in pakistan but these ppl are poor as they dont have a secure future as we do.

the person came and wanted to give eidi to our kids, my husband said no ...as we didnt think it was right, well anyway the meat for the needy went to them the same day and we were happy as we didnt have room in our fridge too.

next day we all, kids and all too the meat out of the fridge and dropped them off at relatives and friends, came home during evening as we stayed at one friend's home where we delived the last package for some time for chai and gupshp...

all in all a fun day and the kids learned the spirt of eid, sacraficing and giving.

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For next year, look up ICNA's website. They provide contacts of masjids and other locations where you can drop off your qurbani portion for the needy and they will distribute it to local places (masjids, homes they know of, shelters, food banks etc). Not sure what state your in, but for NJ they had drop of locations in several areas.