Answering the Suspicion that Says: Muslims’ Fasting has

been Taken from Christians

The Second Lie:

To proof his idea that fasting in Islam is taken from Christianity

Butrus said:

in At-Tabary interpretation of the following Quranic verse: (O ye who

believe! Fasting is prescribed for you, even as it was prescribed for
those before you) [Al-Baqara:183], Al-Shabi said: the obligation of
fasting the month of Ramadan in Christianity was before that in
Islam. So, Muslims followed them and performed fasting like them
until now.

The complete text of Al-Shabi –from which Butrus quoted his last
statement-, is:

“If I were fasting the whole year, I would not fast the doubt day
which may be in the month of Sha’ban or Ramadan, which means
that Christians have to fast the month of Ramadan as we do, but
they changed it according to the season. They may fast in the very
hot month thirty days. Then another generation came and fasted
one day before the thirty day and one after it. Thus, one generation
after the other increases the number of days till they became fifty
days. That is what Allah the Almighty says:

“O you who believe! Observing fasting is prescribed for you as it was

prescribed for those before you,”

At-Tabary said in another interpretation to this Quranic verse: (even as it

was prescribed for those before you): “In Ramadan Allah prescribed to the
Christians to fast; not to eat, or drink or even to have sexual relationship
with their wives the whole month. So, Christians found fasting Ramadan
very hard, and this month sometimes comes in winter and another time in
summer; for that they changed its time according to their own will and
fasted in the season which is between winter and summer. They added
twenty days more as a penance, and made their fasting fifty days.

Muslims kept doing that until Allah permitted to eat and drink and to do
sexual relationship with their wives after sunset till sunrise.

Is Butrus saying anything related to what At-Tabary said?!

He lies in order to invent that Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) was fasting as

the Christians did – though he did not admit that they are the Christians of
today- and that fasting was not prescribed by Allah rather by following
other nations as Christians, and Sabians etc. then he says he takes the
proof from Muslims’ books.

Allah curses those who are lying.