Then the Prophet, may God’s prayers and peace be upon him, made it a distinction between the status of the People of the Book and our status. She is either one of those from among the People of the Book who singled out the right for her over all other nations, or from among those who commanded us to preserve it so that we can be distinguished from the People of the Book, since it was revealed to them as it was revealed to us, so they neglected its right as they did. In many things, both views are permissible, and this applies to hastening the breaking of the fast and delaying the suhoor. If we consider that the People of the Book are those who uphold their Book, we know that God has singled us out for the virtue of hastening the breaking of the fast and delaying the suhoor for them, and that He did not reveal that to them, so they were deprived of its virtue, and if we consider that the People of the Book are those to whom a Book was sent down from God, the same. Whether they did