Qurbaani

Calculating the price of qurbaani animals when making qadha

Q: A person has many years of missed qurbani that he needs to make up for by paying market values.

1. Must he use the market value of a local animal (which would be expensive) or can he use the market value of a cheap country (such as the value of 1/7 cow in India)

2. Should he use the market value for the current year, or should he use the market values for the past years when he missed the qurbanis?

Organization doing qurbaani for people but not giving each person the meat of their qurbaani animal

Q: Many people including A, B and C are doing their Qurbaani through an organization by paying equal amounts for each animal. The organization, after doing Qurbaani, will give A the meat of B, and B will get the meat of C and so on, i.e. the animal will be slaughtered for someone but its meat will be given to another person. However, in the end, all will get the meat. Is it fine?

Slaughtering exotic animals whose meat is of an inferior quality for qurbaani

Q: I wanted to find out with regards to the size and type of animal for qurbaani. Every year in our house we slaughter lambs (good quality, lovely animals) however in the recent years some family members have been saying that we should get exotic animals, most of these are just for the looks and alot of the time the meat is of an inferior quality.

I wanted to know is there any extra thawaab with regards to slaughtering a bigger/stronger/exotic animal in the eyes of Allah Ta'ala.

Doing a blood test during the first ten days of Zul Hijjah

Q: I have a question regarding the first ten days of Zul Hijjah.

I'm going to perform qurbaani inshallah and I heard that I can't cut my hair and nails for 10 days before qurbaani. I have an appointment to give blood for testing and I was wondering if this is permissible or is it haram like cutting hair and nails in the first 10 days of Zul Hijjah ?