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