Explanation of the Verse “Eat and Drink, Until the White Thread of Dawn Appears to you Distinct…
Explanation of the Verse “Eat and Drink, Until the White Thread of Dawn Appears to you Distinct from its Black Thread.” – Dr Zakir Naik
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Yusuf Chambers: Well that’s very comforting to know that we can have the dawn meal. Because I think a lot of people will be suffering other wsre. It’s the mercy of Allah (Subhanahu wa ta’ala) indeed. Dr. Zakir you mentioned a verse just now. Can we just ask you the significance of that verse? “Eat and drink until the white thread of dawn is distinct from the black thread?”
Dr. Zakir: when this verse was reveled for the first time Surah Baqarah ch. no. 2 verse no. 187 it said that
“Eat and drink till the white thread you can differentiate from the black thread”
Moment this verse was reveled the Sahabas understood the meaning as the verse was reveled and its mentioned in
Sahih Al Bukhari Vol. no. 6 Hadith no. 4509 that
“One Sahaba the moment he heard this verse he took two hair strings one black and one white and he kept it beneath his pillow and when he got up for Suhoor he tried to differentiate between the white string from the black string and he could not really understand so he went to the Prophet and asked his what does it mean?”
And another Hadith its mentioned in Sahih Al Bukhari Vol. no. 6 Hadith no. 4510 where it says that
“One Sahaba 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 he can differentiate between these two threads. But when they went to the Prophet and asked what does it mean that until you can differentiate from the black thread then the Prophet made them understand what it actually means is until you can differentiate the white thread of dawn, that means the light of dawn from the black thread of night and then the verse was revealed in complete. And the word ‘of dawn’ was reveled later on. First the verse was until you can differentiate the white thread from the black thread. Then Allah reveals in-between white thread of dawn. So the complete verse then is reveled. So then it was made clear and our beloved Prophet Muhammad, (Sallallahu alaihe wa sallam), he explained the meaning of true Fajr and he said that first Fajr is known as the false 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, its spreads horizontal in the sky which you can see the mountains and it reaches the houses and the street so that is the true Fajr, that is the break of dawn when a person should stop eating at that time.”
And this is clarified further in the Hadith of the Prophet Muhammad (Sallallahu alaihe wa sallam), its mentioned in a Sahih Hadith of Al Baihaqi (Vol no. 4 Book of Fasting) Hadith no. 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’s the true Fajr it makes the eating of food prohibited and it makes the Fajr Salaah lawful”
So major differentiation between the 2 types Fajr and further its mentioned in the Hadith of
Sunan Abu Dawud Vol. no. 2 in the Book of Fasting Hadith no. 2348 where the Prophet said
“Let the people continue eating and drinking and should not stop when they see the white vertical light and they should keep on eating until they see the horizontal redness of Fajr…
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