It is the day concerning which Allah the Almighty said: {On the Day when every soul will come disputing for itself, and every soul will be fully compensated for what it did, and they will not be wronged} 1 .
It is the day of the rising of the Hour, concerning which Allah the Almighty said: {They ask you about the Hour...} 2 .
Therein lies the nobility of Eid al-Adha. It was named Eid al-Adha [The Festival of Sacrifice] according to the blood that is shed therein; to the extent that if a disbeliever were to hide behind a wall, the wall would lean over him and kill him, or it would call out: "O believer, a disbeliever has hidden behind me, come and kill him." And the religion, in its entirety, shall remain for Allah, the High, the Great.We have narrated from al-Asbagh ibn Nubata, who said: I asked Abu al-Haytham Malik ibn al-Tayyihan about the sacrifice (al-Nahr) during al-Adha. He said: "Yes, our Master, Allah, called the creation to Himself in the first beginning, and they responded. Then He called them to the Gnosis of the Veil (al-Hijab), but they refused.