Among what Moses brought was fasting on the day of Ashura, so we believed in it and fasted on the command of the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, as an obligation, unlike for us, just as Moses fasted it as an obligation. Then God imposed Ramadan on us and gave us the choice to fast on Ashura, so we fast it from the path of priority, so we combine the reward of the obligatory day and the voluntary one to an increased degree. On the believers from the people of Moses, peace be upon him. When he, may God’s prayers and peace be upon him, commanded us to differ from the Jews, he commanded us to fast the day before Ashura, which is the ninth, and the day after it, which is the eleventh.

So he, may God’s prayers and peace be upon him, said to us: Fast on the day of Ashura, and they differed from the Jews on it, so fast a day before it. And after that, one day

He did not say, “Disobey Moses, for God has protected us from disobeying the prophets. Rat