Zakir Naik – Backstory of the Verse – Eat and Drink…

			Dr. Zakir, you mentioned the verse just now can we just ask you the significance of that verse, eat
and drink until the white thread of dawn appears distinct from the black thread. When this was was
revealed for the first time, so Rebekah, chapter two was the 187. It said that eat and drink till
the white thread you can differentiate from the black thread. moment This was first revealed.
		

			The sabas understood the meaning as it was, was revealed. And it's mentioned in, say, Al Bukhari one
number six,
		

			added number 4509,
		

			that, when Saba, the moment he heard this was, he took two histories, one black and one white, and
he kept it beneath his pillow. And when he got up for over, he tried to differentiate between the
white string from the black string, and you could not really understand seven to the Prophet and
asked him what does it mean. And another Hadith is mentioned in say Buhari, or six, Hadith number
4510, which says that one Saba, he took two threads, one black thread and one white thread, and he
tied it in his toes in the legs. And he kept on eating until you can differentiate between these two
threads. But when they went to the profit enough, what does it mean that until you can differentiate
		

			the white thread from the black thread, then the profit made them understand what it actually means
if, until you can differentiate the white thread of dawn. That means the light of dawn from the
black thread of night.
		

			And then the worst was revealed in complete and the word of Dawn was riveted on first of us was,
until you can differentiate the white thread from the black thread, then Allah reveals in between
white thread of dawn, the complete was then is revealed. So then was made clear, and a beloved
prophet masala Salam, he explained the meaning of to Fajr. And he said that the first Fajr is known
as the forest Fajr, where you see a vertical white streak of light, which is somewhat similar to the
tail of a fox, but that is known as the false Fajr. And the second Fajr, which is the true Fajr is
when the redness of light expressed horizontally in the sky, which you can see it in the mountains
		

			and ridges, the houses and the streets. So that is the true Fajr that is the break of dawn, when a
person should stop eating at the time. And this is clarified further, in the Hadith of the Prophet
masala Salam, it's mentioned in a say, hadith of Albuquerque, Hadith number 8003, where the prophet
said, the first Fajr does not prohibit you from eating the food, and it does not make the fajr
prayer lawful.
		

			And the second Fajr that is the true Fajr it makes the eating of food prohibited and it makes the
Fajr Salah lawful. So we made the differentiation between the two types of Fajr and furthers
mentioned in Hadith of so number one number two, in the book of fasting Hadith number 234 it where
the prophet said let the people continue eating and drinking should not stop when they see the white
vertical light.
		

			And they should keep on eating until they see the horizontal redness of Fajr that are the true Fajr
		

			and it's for the mentioned in say Muslim woman number two in the book of fasting Hadith number 2407
and two for zeroid Holiday Sherman low Pivotal, she said that let not the call of Bilal Maliki the
team and the whiteness of the first Fajr defeat the people and let them know stop eating that means
they can continue eating and there's another Hadith which says that let not the call of other Bilal
deceive you continue eating until you hear the call of Maktoum. So this actually is the complete
meaning of the Quranic verse that you can eat until the white set of Dawn becomes distinct from the
black thread of night.