They also shared with them the name of knowledge, and separated from them by the one who was richest in the known, that is, by the one whose knowledge was attached, and all of this is understood by the people of the days of al-Tashreeq. If they eat during them, then it is in the sense that they are days of eating, drinking, and remembrance, and if they fast in them, then it is in the sense that they are days of remembrance of God, so the remembrance distracts them from eating and drinking, so they abstain from Eating is a conditional abstinence, not an act of worship.