Eid ul Azha is an occasion that brings gourmet thrills to meat-eaters and chills of terror to the cattle and other sacrificial animals. However, at least one sacrificial animal got even with its owner by giving him over to death prior to its own demise. In an unusual and rather interesting incident, a sacrificial ox, brought to the cattle market in Lahore for sale by its owner Altaf Hussain, suddenly took fright and tried to escape. ALtaf Hussain tried to stop him upon which the ox knocked him down and injured him seriously. He was rushed to the hospital where he succumbed to the wound.
In another incident, also taking place in an old settlement of Lahore (Bagahnpura), a man named Mohammad Boota got entangled in the rope with which he had tethered his sacrificial animal. Boota was seriously injured and was rushed to the hospital where he passed away. In yet another incident in Nazamabad, Karachi, a camel crushed a butcher to death on the second day of Eid.
Whether animals are becoming conscious to their mass slaughter at the hands of humans cannot be stated with confidence at this stage of our understanding, and it does not seem very likely; yet, it appears that animals are not always the sole objects of sacrifice; sometimes, the case may be different and hence the question ‘who is sacrificing who?’
