Ali Ataie – The White & Dark Threads When We Go to Sunnah to Understand a Qur’anic Verse

The verse in the Quran in Surah Baqarah,

aye number 187.

So Allah

says,

So eat and drink until it becomes clear

to you,

the difference between

the white thread

and the black thread.

So there was a companion named Adi Mohattin,

who

kept a white thread and a black thread

under his pillow.

And he kept looking at them while all

the lights were out in his house. And

the minute he's able to distinguish between the

2, he would stop eating and begin fasting.

So that's how he interpreted the verse because

that's what it says.

Literally what it says. White thread, black thread.

Right?

So he he consulted the prophet, sallallahu alaihi,

sallam.

And the prophet, sallallahu alaihi, sallam, told, no.

That's not what the salamat verse means. You

don't have to look at 2 pieces of

thread. Right? He says that, you know, the

thread is the darkness of the night or

the whiteness of the day.

Right? So it's important

to go to the sunnah in order to

understand

what the Quran is saying.