Since the night of the middle of Sha`ban was a night in which the Angel of Death wrote to the Angel of Death who would take his soul in that year, he would write a black line on the name of the wretched person and a white line on the name of the happy one, by which the Angel of Death would know the happy one from the wretched one, so the death of this person was witnessed because it is the time of looking at deadlines and conjuring them up. The believer who does not have this knowledge, if the night of the sixteenth follows it, and the one who has these witnesses or the one who summons him does not stop observing death, then he is counted in his state among the children of the afterlife, and with death the obligation is dropped, so he is not in a state in which he can fast overnight because he witnesses the state of the attribute that interrupts deeds, so he remains drunk as a result of this witnessing. Until the beginning of Ramadan, he is prohibited from fasting the middle, and