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in Islam we don't have what is called a
Sabbath the word Sabbath actually comes
from the word uh Sab in Arabic the word
Sab means seventh and
so in in Arabic is called Satur day so
on the basis of that we know that um the
Sabbath uh was originally Saturday not
Friday not Sunday um the the Christian
Church 300 and some odd years after
Jesus Christ they adopted Sunday because
Sunday was the day that the pagans used
to worship the Sun so since that was the
day that the pagans or the Romans and
the Greeks used to acknowledge a day of
Holiness they took the name of Jesus
Christ and the faith of Jesus Christ and
they applied it for that day when they
and so they called their day of worship
Sunday and then the Christian um
civilization just adopted that as a
matter of fact all those days that we're
acknowledging Sunday Monday is called
moonay Tuesday is is another day
Wednesday wed day and Thursday is Thor's
day that's another God and you know so
all of these days that we're using are
from the Gregorian Greek Roman Calendar
which is evidence of their Pagan
practices as a matter of fact there's a
group of Christians who do not accept
Sunday and they call themselves The
Seventh Day Adventist okay and that's
why the seven Day Adventist they are
worshiping on Saturday but now we as
Muslims when the prophet Muhammad came
with his revelation we were given the
order to Worship On A Day called Friday
but it's in Arabic it's not Friday it's
called jum jum means a day of gathering
so what we were ordered to do is at noon
time or approximately thereof on Friday
the Muslim men especially are ordered to
stop their work stop their business stop
their occupations and go and pray in
congregation now that congregational
prayer on Friday only takes probably
maybe half an hour 45 minutes at the
most and after that we can eat drink
work earn money so there's nothing no
restrictions but we are ordered to stop
on Juma and go pray now for the women if
they want to pray Juma they can it's
optional but the the the rationale
behind women not having to do it is that
if the women also were ordered to go
make Juma what would happen to the
children what would happen to the home
so in Islam we do worship uh
um a Sabbath in the sense that that day
becomes binding on us to stop to worship
God to pray to listen to some admonition
but afterwards God
says go to the Earth and benefit from
whatever you want to benefit so after
the Juma prayer is over we can work we
can eat we can resume whatever it is
that we have to and so for us this no
one particular day that we have to stop
and the other thing is that the
Christians were doing this by this
Covenant that on the basis that God
created the heavens and earth in six
periods or six days and on the seventh
day he rested well we reject that
concept because resting is not an
attribute of God God's work doesn't not
like our work it's not like after God
created the heavens and earth or he did
some tremendous work then God need to
sit back and take a breather and drink
some lemonade or whatever the case might
be it's not like that so we don't have
this concept of God that he needed rest
but we do believe and our Quran says
that God created the heavens and earth
in six
periods and after that he settled on the
throne but settling on his throne means
that God is on his throne we don't say
he's on his throne like I'm sitting in a
chair he's on his throne according to
His Majesty we cannot imagine what that
is but after six periods he created the
heavens and the Earth he completed that
work and after that he settled on the
throne we don't add anything to the
meaning of that but we don't have a
actually a Sabbath in Islam that's
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