The Meccan Revelations: al-Futuhat al-Makkiyya

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If we do not see it and one or two men tell us about it, do we come under the rule of time and testimony takes the place of sighting for us? So I say that the rule of this crescent in its appearance is not without it appearing with a ruling that agrees with the psychological purpose or contradicts it. If it contradicts it, we accept the testimony of the one person, and the other witness is what we were commanded to do. From going against the soul, the soul by nature does not want this ruling, so we should act upon it during the new moon of fasting, and since breaking the fast is the soul’s purpose, we asked for another apparent witness to testify for us so that our breaking the fast would be an act of worship, not for the soul’s purpose, and perhaps we stipulated that they should be fair, and such a breaking of the fast is a holiday. Breaking the fast is an act of worship and its fasting is forbidden. In it, I mean in sighting the crescent of Fitr, we are approaching worship due t

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Let us mention the news contained in this matter in order to inform the person who is reading this book about our understanding, so that he does not lack another book and become tired, so I say

A hadith reported in Sunan Abu Dawud. Abu Dawud narrated on the authority of Rab’i bin Kharash, on the authority of a man among the companions of the Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace. He, peace be upon him, said: The people disagreed on the last day of Ramadan, so two Bedouins came and testified before the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, that it was the crescent moon yesterday evening, so the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, ordered the people to break their fast and go to their place of prayer in the morning.

Another hadith as well. From Sunan Abu Dawud

Abu Dawud also narrated on the authority of Ibn Umar, who said that the people saw the crescent, so I told the Messenger of God, may God bless him and

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Since fasting is a ruling that God added to it and exempted the fasting person from it despite the fact that he commanded him to fast, then the fasting person should spend the duration of his fasting looking at his Lord in it so that it is valid that he is fasting and not neglecting it, for the truth does not add it to it so that it is valid that it is fasting, and it is not valid except with the servant’s fasting in this manner. Which God has prescribed for him to perform, and if he does not fast according to what He has prescribed for him, then he is not fasting, and if he is not fasting, then what is the fast that God will return to him? The fasting person may think that he is fasting, and he has done an act during his fast that necessitated for him that act to deviate from his fast, such as backbiting. If something falls from him or something like it, then he is breaking his fast, that is, he is not fasting, and if he does not eat, then if that action has expiation and he perf

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