Ihram was legislated only as a result of prayer, because prayer is an act of worship between two extremes of prohibition and permissibility, so its prohibition is the takbir and its permissibility is submission, so it is similar to Hajj and Umrah, for they are two acts of worship between two extremes of prohibition and permissibility, so the occasion occurred, and because prayer also established the right in it, both for himself and for his servant, so he made it for himself something unique to him and gave his servant a portion of it. He singled it out and made of it an isthmus in which he created participation between him and his servant, for it is an act of worship based on words and deeds, and Hajj is likewise based on words and deeds. So what is in it of veneration is for God, and what is in it of humility, poverty, and indecency is for the servant, and what is in it which shows participation is a isthmus, so the occasion also occurred in it more than any other. Among the act