Malfuzat – Volume X — Page 121
Undated 121 Deficient Animal for Sacrifice A person asked the Promised Messiah as : ‘If the [sacrificial] animal ful- filling all the features mentioned in the Hadith is not available can we sacrifice an animal that is deficient in some respects? The Promised Messiah as said: It is permissible in extenuating circumstances, but what is the constraint these days? There are plenty of days. One can try to find [the proper animal]. To argue unnecessarily or to be tardy is not permissible. 1 1. Badr, vol. 7, no. 3, p. 2, dated 23 January 1908