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Originally Posted by mufi_02
Recently they had an article on extreme left BD Newspaper called Weekly Blitz about this matter. They suggested giving money to charity instead of doing real Qurbani.
I don't think this can be a substitute. It was never done or suggested by the Prophet or by any of his rightly guided companions and the next two generations (Tabien and Tabe-Tabien). I am only speaking from a limited Islamic knowledge and someone who is more knowledgeable can shed some more light.
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There are many expats (BD, Ind, Pak ..) who send money to their country for Qurbani. And Qurbani isn't something mandatory for non hajjis. And for hajjis, if you fail to offer a Qurbani, you have to fast for 7/10 days after the hajj, that's according to Quran. And prophet didn't have the mandate to tell anything other than Quran, who are the tabein/tabe-tabeins? you may well imagine.
Qurbani is sacrifice, and giving money shouldn't have problem for non hajjis. In today's world sacrificing money is the biggest sacrifice. Maldives isn't a place for breeding animals in large scale, how they can even sacrifice animal at an affordable price?