Know O servants of God! that to rejoice on the feast day is the sign and mark of the pure and good. Exalted will be the rank of such in Paradise (Dar-ul-Qarar), especially on the day of resurrection will they obtain dignity and honour. Do not on this day foolish acts. It is no time for amusements and negligence. This is the day on which to utter the praises of God. (Tasbih.) Read the Kalima, the Takbir and the Tamhid. This is a high festival season and the feast of sacrifice. Read now the Takbir-ut-Tashriq. God is great! God is great! There is no God but God! God is great! God is great! All praise be to Him! From the morning of the 'Arfa, after every farz rak'at it is good (mustahab) for a person to repeat the Takbir-ut-Tashriq. The woman before whom is a man as Imam, and the traveller whose Imam is a permanent resident (Muqim) should also repeat this Takbir. It should be said at each Namaz until the Salat-ul-'Asr of the Feast day (10th). Some, however, say that it should be recited every day till the afternoon ('Asr) of the thirteenth day, as these are the days of the Tashriq (p. 231).[261] If the Imam forgets to recite, let not the worshipper forget. Know, O believers, that every free man who is a Sahib-i-Nisab (_i.e._ worth Rs. 52) should offer sacrifice on this day, provided that this sum is exclusive of his horse, his clothes, his tools, and his household goods and slaves. It is wajib for every one to offer sacrifice for himself, but it is not a wajib order that he should do it for his children.[262] A goat, a ram or a cow should be offered in sacrifice for every seven persons. The victim must not be one-eyed, blind, lame or very thin. If you sacrifice a fat animal it will serve you well, and carry you across the Sirat. O Believers, thus said the Prophet, on whom be the mercy and peace of God, "Sacrifice the victim with your own hands, this was the Sunnat of Ibrahim, on whom be peace." In the Kitab-uz-zad-ut-Taqwa, it is said that on the 'Id-ul-Fitr and the 'Id-uz-Zuha, four nafl rak'ats should be said after the farz Namaz {256} of the 'Id. In the first rak'at after the Surat-ul-Fatiha recite the Surat-ul-A'la (Sura lxxvii); in the second, the Surat-ush-Shams (Sura xci); in the third, the Surat-uz-Zuha (Sura xciii); in the fourth, the Surat-ul-Ikhlas (cxii). O Believers, if ye do so, God will pardon the sins of fifty years which are past and of fifty years to come. The reading of these Suras are equal as an act of merit to the reading of all the books God has sent by His prophets.