Eid Al Adha 2020: Muslims around the world celebrate with family and feasts

While traditions of celebration may vary across the world, there are some commonalities in the marking of Eid Al Adha. Typically there’s a feast and a meeting of family, laughter and for those so inclined, a dash of henna to mark the festive occasion. Here’s a look at some preparations from around the globe. In Palestine, women ready traditional date-filled cookies on their terraces (as pictured here) in the West Bank town of Hebron.

Henna is thought to bring good luck – during festivals such as Eid, women take the time to apply intricate patterns to their hands in countries including Pakistan. Here, a woman wearing a mask, as is protocol against the spreading of germs and COVID-19, is seen tattooing a client in Rawalpindi on July 30, 2020, ahead of the Eid celebrations.

People waiting for their orders at a butcher’s in Lebanon's northern port city of Tripoli, as Muslims across the world are getting ready to celebrate Eid al-Adha. Tradition dictates that Muslims donate cuts of mutton during Friday's Eid al-Adha festival, which usually means brisk business for butcher Abdulrazak Darwish but Lebanon's economic crisis has cast a pall over his trade. The Lebanese pound has in recent months lost around 80 per cent of its value against the dollar on the black market. That devaluation has had a huge impact on prices and the purchasing power of ordinary Lebanese.

An NGO worker helps a displaced Syrian boy with his new shirt; it’s an Eid gift, at a camp for the internally displaced near the town of Sarmada in Syria's northwestern Idlib province. Zakat, or chartity, is the third pillar of Islam.

A woman takes a photograph of her family members among camels at a cattle market ahead of the Muslim festival Eid al-Adha or the 'Festival of Sacrifice', in the Pakistan's port city of Karachi.

Residents shop in preparation for the Muslim festival of Eid al-Adha, as the COVID-19 outbreak continues in Baghdad.

Vendors prepare sweets at a traditional bakery for the upcoming Eid al-Adha in Kabul, Afghanistan. Eid al-Adha, or "Feast of the Sacrifice," commemorates the Quranic tale of Prophet Ibrahim's willingness to sacrifice his son as an act of obedience to God.

Palestinian families buy chocolate on Wednesday at a store in Gaza City decorated with sheep dolls, a symbol of the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha.

Sweet stuff: People buy vermicelli at Jama Masjid market, in Gurugram, India, ahead of Eid al-Adha. The vermicelli will be used to make a traditional sweet, rich in sugar, milk and flavour.

A woman sits under a livestock market sign, ahead of Eid al-Adha in Abuja, Nigeria.