The Meccan Revelations: al-Futuhat al-Makkiyya

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[ There are two apparent witnesses to the crescent of breaking the fast, and there are two visible witnesses to fasting, one visible and one hidden .]

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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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