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Your first question, sister Lisa from England, Manchester, says that she has converted to Islam

But some of her close family and friends are questioning her about

Islam being the true religion

because according to them

the law of the Sabbath, the law of the Jewish law of the Sabbath was given to all of Abraham's children

and so they question our sister Lisa that how can Islam claim to be following

Ibrahim Ali his salam following Abraham when we do not observe the laws of the Sabbath

So the Jewish Sabbath or Shavata as they pronounced it, it is something that the Jews observe

throughout the entire year on the seventh day of the week which is Saturday and according to

the biblical tradition it commemorates according to them the original seventh day that God allegedly

rested on after completing the creation as you know in the Bible they believe this is not

something in the Quran they believe that God created the earth in six days and then he rested

on the seventh day as for the Quran there is no such thing Allah does not need to rest at all Allah

does not get tired but that is the biblical version and so some of the basic teachings of Judaism

affirmed by the Sabbath are God's act of creation God's role in history and most importantly

God's covenant with Israel that's why our sister Lisa's cousins and friends are confused

that they believe that this covenant was for all of the believers in God and this Sabbath is

the only Jewish holiday that is a mandatory by the ten commandments so the original ten commandments

one of them was to observe the Sabbath the the Jewish people are obligated to sanctify and to

honor the Sabbath at home and in the synagogue by observing the Sabbath laws and engaging in worship

and study and the the significance of this day is reflected in many of their traditions of them

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