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[ The difference of scholars regarding fasting on the Day of Arafat in Arafat ]
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But the religious scholars differed regarding fasting on the day of Arafat and not on other days due to the perceived hardship therein and weakness in supplication in most cases. The supplication on this day is what is required of the pilgrim. The best supplication is the supplication on the day of Arafat, like a traveler in Ramadan when he breaks his fast. Among the scholars are He chose breaking the fast for the pilgrim and fasting it for the non-pilgrim in order to combine the two effects. We presented at the beginning of the chapter the authentic narrated report regarding his fasting, so we mention that the Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace, did not fast it during Arafah out of mercy for the people who were faced with hardship in his fasting. Likewise, the scholars of the charts and the matter imagined what we said, for he was able to fast it. In himself, and he forbids his nation from fasting at Arafat, and something like this occurred in the Sharia, such