{"id":6913,"date":"2024-07-10T07:44:28","date_gmt":"2024-07-10T07:44:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/al-mawrid.org\/questions-en\/2024\/07\/10\/sacred-day-of-israelites-friday-or-saturday\/"},"modified":"2025-11-16T21:49:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T16:49:08","slug":"sacred-day-of-israelites-friday-or-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/al-mawrid.org\/questions-en\/sacred-day-of-israelites-friday-or-saturday\/","title":{"rendered":"Sacred day of Israelites- Friday or Saturday?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Question<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Why was Saturday chosen as a sacred day for Bani Israel, instead of Friday?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Answer<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Salaam.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the opinion of Mr Ghamidi, the sacred day for the Children of Israel was Friday, which they later on changed to Saturday. In his reading, the Almighty has also alluded to this in the Qur&#8217;an (16:124). 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