Eid Mubarak in Arabic means "blessed celebration" and is a common greeting for Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha.

Eid al-Adha is Islam's holiest festival and is celebrated annually as an official holiday in many countries.

Here is how some people around the world are getting ready for the festivities.

A camel for sale decorated with artificial flowers and henna patterns is seen at a makeshift cattle market, ahead of the Eid al-Adha festival in Peshawar, Pakistan. [Fayaz Aziz/Reuters]

People sit on top of an overcrowded train as they travel home to celebrate the Eid al-Adha festival, at a railway station in Dhaka, Bangladesh. [Mohammad Ponir Hossain/Reuters]

An Afghan shops for dresses ahead of the Muslim festival of Eid Al-Adha, in Herat, Afghanistan. Eid al-Adha is the holiest of the two Muslims holidays celebrated each year, it marks the yearly Muslim pilgrimage (Hajj) to visit Mecca, the holiest place in Islam. [Jalil Rezayee/EPA]

A Yemeni baker prepares cakes at a bakery in the old city of Sanaa, Yemen. [Yahya Arhab/EPA]

Rafik al Hibish, 11, feeds his sheep, who will be slaughtered on the first day of the holiday in the southern port city of Sidon, Lebanon.Eid al-Adha, or Feast of Sacrifice, commemorates what Muslims believe was Prophet Abraham's willingness to sacrifice his son. [Mohammed Zaatari/AP]

People buy sweets in Jerusalem's Old City ahead of the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha. [Ammar Awad/Reuters]

People attend prayers for the Muslim holiday of Eid Al-Adha at Istiqlal Mosque in Jakarta, Indonesia. [Iqro Rinaldi/Reuters

Source:aljazeera.com