The Meccan Revelations: al-Futuhat al-Makkiyya

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Fasting while traveling

The name of Ramadan requires him to implement the ruling therein until the end of the month of his authority, and travel is judged by transfer, which is the lack of stability in one state, so the ruling of the divine name Ramadan is invalidated against the fasting traveler, and whoever says that it rewards him makes his travel in He cut off the days of the month and made the ruling on it the name Ramadan, so he combined travel and fasting. As for the ruling on its transition, which is called travel, it moves from fasting to breaking the fast and from breaking the fast to fasting, and the ruling on Ramadan does not depart from it, and for this reason he legislated its fasting and praying, then it is also permissible to connect in it with its transition from night to day and from day to night. The ruling on Ramadan applies to him, and for this reason the traveler suffices to fast Ramadan

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As for the sick person, his ruling is different from the ruling for the traveler in consideration. The scholars have unanimously agreed that if the sick person fasts Ramadan in the event of his illness, it is sufficient, but the traveler is not like that according to them, so their reasoning for the verse is weak, so they consider that illness is the opposite of health, and what is required of fasting is his health, and the two opposites do not come together, so sickness and fasting are not valid, and we considered it to be in a month. Ramadan alone, because it is obligatory due to God’s obligation to begin with, so the one who made it obligatory is the one who removed it from the sick person, so it is not valid to consider what is not obligatory from God an obligation from God in the event that it is not obligatory.

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Whoever considers that fasting has no equal and that it is an attribute of truth, says that it is better, and whoever considers that it is an act of worship, then it is an attribute of humility and need, then he is a worthy servant. He said that breaking the fast is better, especially for the patient and the sick, as they are in need of strength and its source is breaking the habit, so breaking the fast is better, and whoever considers it That fasting is from the divine name of Ramadan, and that breaking the fast is from the divine name of the one who breaks his fast. He said, “There is no differentiation in the divine names according to what they are names for God Almighty.” He said, “One of the two names is not better than the other, because the one who breaks the fast is in the ruling of one who breaks the fast, and the one who is fasting is in the ruling of one who is high in rank, and the ruling of one who abstains, and the ruling in the name of Ramadan. This is the doctr

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Whoever says that he breaks the fast in travel in which he shortens the prayer, according to their differences in this issue, and who says that he breaks the fast in everything that is called travel, and I say this

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Those who travel to God, which is the comprehensive name and is the desired goal, and the divine names on the way to Him are like the stations for travelers and the moon’s stations that are destined for the moon to travel on the path to its intended destination. At least travel is moving from one name to another name. If he finds God in the first leg of his journey, that is his rule. According to that, it has been stated that he is a traveler, and with us there is no end or limit to most of it.

According to what he, peace and blessings of God be upon him, said in his supplication, O God, I ask You by every name by which You have named Yourself, or which You have taught to any of Your creation, or which You have kept secret in the knowledge of Your unseen. < /p

This is the consideration of someone who says he breaks his fast in what is given the name “travel”

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And whoever says specifically about that, then his consideration is according to what he specified. Whoever considers the three in that is like someone who says oneness or oneness. He has no ruling on the number, but rather the number is from the two onwards. Traveling here is to the Name God and there is no traveling to Him except by Him. The first thing he encounters is that he is traveling to Him. In the individual prayer, which is the first three individuals, this is limited travel. Then consideration is taken in the scholars’ definition of shortening the prayer in the chapter on prayer in this book, and we have mentioned it in the shortened prayer in this book .

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Who says that illness is the one that causes hardship and harm from fasting, and who says that it is the predominant illness, and who says that it is the least of the things that can be called illness, and I say that, and it is the doctrine of Rabi’ah ibn Abi Abd al-Rahman.

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Hardship befalls the aspirant, and he is the one who plots and exerts effort, and for that reason He has prescribed for us and you to seek help. And God Almighty said, “And seek help with patience and prayer,” so the powerful name helps him to do what he is about. This is an illness that requires breaking the fast.

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As for those who regard illness as a result of inclination, and this is the one to which the name disease is given, this is the doctrine of Muhammad ibn Abd al-Jabbar al-Nafri, the author of positions among the men of God. This is what I think, and man is not necessarily devoid of inclination, for he is between right and creation, and between right and right in terms of the divine names, and each party calls him to himself. He must have an inclination

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