A Refutation of Those Who Call for Following the Jews and Christians in Permitting Saturday and Sunday
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The questioner:
Benefits from the explanation of the book *Iqtida' al-Sirat al-Mustaqim li-Mukhalafat Ahl al-Jahim* by Ibn Taymiyyah. Those who call for following the Jews and Christians in permitting Saturday and Sunday have only one argument, which is that it is more beneficial for the economy and banks and for the day off. Apart from that, they have neither truth nor falsehood. What do you say? Do you refute the texts by saying that it is more economically beneficial for us or more restful for the banks?
The Shaykh:
This is, in addition to being a refutation of the authentic texts, also a change of worship, because what is the issue? It is an economic issue and an issue of money. The issue is a matter of religion and worship. So do not change the worship and the religion, and do not let the Muslims turn away from the day that Allah gave them to the day of the Jews and Christians, which they chose and then regretted, and they envied the Muslims for the day of Friday. It is obligatory for the Muslims to take pride in the day of Friday and to remain as they are in it, because it is their day by which Allah distinguished them, and because the Jews and Christians follow them. If they turn away from the day of Friday to the day of Saturday or Sunday, they become followers of the Jews and Christians. Yes.
The questioner:
What makes one listen to and accept the speech of these people is that many Muslims do not know that there are legal and religious virtues distinguishing Friday from other days, so they think the issue is just one day like any other, right?
The Shaykh:
The state of the Muslims now is deplorable, except for whom Allah the Exalted has mercy, due to their ignorance of their religion, their laxity and leniency in it, their love of conforming to the disbelievers, their participation with the disbelievers, and their exalting of the disbelievers in their eyes, to the point that some of them see the disbelievers as more advanced, older, and earlier. We are demanded to catch up with them and their train of civilization, as they say, because their faith in their hearts is weak in the first place, and also, even if they have faith, they are ignorant and do not know the rulings of their religion, so they have been afflicted from these aspects.
Benefits from the explanation of the book *Iqtida' al-Sirat al-Mustaqim li-Mukhalafat Ahl al-Jahim* by Ibn Taymiyyah. Those who call for following the Jews and Christians in permitting Saturday and Sunday have only one argument, which is that it is more beneficial for the economy and banks and for the day off. Apart from that, they have neither truth nor falsehood. What do you say? Do you refute the texts by saying that it is more economically beneficial for us or more restful for the banks?
The Shaykh:
This is, in addition to being a refutation of the authentic texts, also a change of worship, because what is the issue? It is an economic issue and an issue of money. The issue is a matter of religion and worship. So do not change the worship and the religion, and do not let the Muslims turn away from the day that Allah gave them to the day of the Jews and Christians, which they chose and then regretted, and they envied the Muslims for the day of Friday. It is obligatory for the Muslims to take pride in the day of Friday and to remain as they are in it, because it is their day by which Allah distinguished them, and because the Jews and Christians follow them. If they turn away from the day of Friday to the day of Saturday or Sunday, they become followers of the Jews and Christians. Yes.
The questioner:
What makes one listen to and accept the speech of these people is that many Muslims do not know that there are legal and religious virtues distinguishing Friday from other days, so they think the issue is just one day like any other, right?
The Shaykh:
The state of the Muslims now is deplorable, except for whom Allah the Exalted has mercy, due to their ignorance of their religion, their laxity and leniency in it, their love of conforming to the disbelievers, their participation with the disbelievers, and their exalting of the disbelievers in their eyes, to the point that some of them see the disbelievers as more advanced, older, and earlier. We are demanded to catch up with them and their train of civilization, as they say, because their faith in their hearts is weak in the first place, and also, even if they have faith, they are ignorant and do not know the rulings of their religion, so they have been afflicted from these aspects.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، [1320] الرد على من يدعون إلى متابعة اليهود والنصارى في إجازة السبت والأحد I الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
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