The Meccan Revelations: al-Futuhat al-Makkiyya

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In that type, just as Ramadan’s superiority over all other months is in the lunar months, not in the solar months, the best solar month is the day when the sun is in its sign of honor, and the month of Ramadan may come in all the months of the solar year, so that solar month is superior to the rest of the solar months due to it being Ramadan. It was in it and its being in it is something that occurred to him in his journey, so he did not substitute Friday with the day of Arafat or any other day. This is why washing was prescribed on it for the day and not for the same prayer. If it happened that he should wash on that day for Friday prayer, then there is no disagreement between us that it is undoubtedly better and raises the disagreement that exists among scholars.

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When God mentioned the honor of this day to the nations and did not designate it, God granted them all knowledge of it due to their diligence, so they disagreed about it. The Christians said that the best of days, and God knows best, is Sunday because it is the day of the sun and it is the first day on which God created the heavens and the earth and everything between them. Creation did not begin on it except for His honor over all the rest. days, so she took it as a holiday and said, “This is the day that God wanted,” and their Prophet did not say anything to them about that. We do not know whether God informed their Prophet of that or not, for there was no news of that. The Jews said, “Rather, that is on the Sabbath, for God finished creating on the day of Arabism, and rested on the Sabbath and lay down.” On his back, he placed one leg on the other and said, “I am the king.” God Almighty said in response to these words and others like them. They have not esteemed God as He deser

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And this nation came, and Gabriel came to Muhammad, may God’s prayers and peace be upon him, on Friday in the form of a mirror covered with a joke. He said to him, “This is Friday, and this joke is an hour in it. No Muslim servant agrees with it while he is praying, except that God forgives him.” So what the Prophet, may God’s prayers and peace be upon him, said, so God guided us to what The People of the Book disagreed about it. This divine definition of the mirror added guidance to God and the reason for His grace is that it is the day on which God created this human creation for which He created creatures from Sunday to Thursday. It must be the best of times, and His creation was at that hour when a joke appeared in And when a spot appeared in the mirror, the proverb indicates that it does not move, just as the spot in the mirror does not move, for it is a specific hour in the knowledge of God. So we took into account that proverb in the sense, and we must say that the hour doe

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And this hour on Friday is like the Night of Destiny in the year, whether God Almighty said: On this day, I mean, concerning it, the people were one nation, so God sent the prophets as bearers of good tidings and warnings, and He sent down with them the Book with the truth to judge between the people in what they differed over. Except those to whom it was given differed concerning it after it came to them. Clear proofs out of envy among themselves, so God guided those who believed to the truth about what they differed about, by His permission. This verse was revealed regarding disagreement on this day, so Friday was washed away from this disagreement so that he would be certain of his purity in what God revealed from his insight, and He knew the hour that was on this day, for today was ambiguous. Then God made us aware of it through the tongue of His Messenger, and the ambiguity remains regarding the hour in which it occurs. So whoever knows it on every Friday if it moves, or lear

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People disagreed about the obligation of Friday prayer for someone outside Egypt. Some say that Friday is not obligatory for someone outside Egypt, and some say that it is obligatory for someone outside Egypt. They differed as to the amount of distance. Some of them said a day’s distance, which is an abnormal opinion. Some said three miles, and some said: If he is at a distance from which he will often hear the call, and what I say is if the person is at such a distance that if he hears the call, he stands up to perform ritual purification, then goes out to the mosque and walks with calm and dignity. If he arrives and performs the prayer, Friday is obligatory for him. If he knows that he is not following the prayer, then it is not obligatory for him, because he is not a commanded person. By striving for it except after the call, but not before the call.

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