The Time of Breaking the Fast

The Shaykh : O our brothers, you must know this hadith. He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: and he pointed to the east Therefore, it is a delusion and a grave error to imagine that if we see the sun set from here, we say, "By Allah, there is a mountain here," or we say, as the other person said, "there are buildings here." Well, do we look to see if the night has come from here or not? If the light, the light of day, the daylight, is still extending toward the east and it is so toward the west, even if the sun has set, the fasting person has not broken his fast. But if the night comes from here, meaning the darkness begins to descend upon us from the direction of the east, and the light, the sunlight, begins to disappear behind the horizon, and the sun has actually set, he (peace and blessings be upon him) said: And therefore, we cannot conceive of a situation where these three descriptions gather: the night comes from here, the day departs from here, and the sun has set, and we say, "No, it is not yet the time to break the fast." This contradicts the hadith of the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him). He is speaking in clear Arabic, saying, "If the night comes..." Is it not among the self-evident truths that if we see the sun with our own eyes, the disk of the sun, it is descending, it is descending until there is contact between the lower circle of the sun from below and the mountain or the buildings, and then the disk of the sun begins to disappear, disappear, disappear until we do not see it? Is it not permissible for us to say, linguistically, religiously, and by custom, that the sun has set? Why do you doubt the self-evident truths? The sun has set. The only thing that could make us hesitate is if we see the light of day in the east, the middle, and the west still as it was. Let us doubt that. But reality is not so. Allah is the Greatest, Allah is the Greatest.