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The Sabbath, in Hebrew שַׁבָּת‎ (shabat), in Arabic سبت (sabt), is a day when Jews are supposed to take a rest.
The Sabbath, in Hebrew שַׁבָּת‎ (shabat), in Arabic سبت (sabt), is a day when Jews are supposed to take a rest.


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==Seven days week in Islam==
==Seven days week in Islam==
As we've seen, according to the Bible, Jews should take a rest on the 7th day, which is connected to the story of creation where God created the world in 6 days, but rested on the 7th day. So 7 day week makes sense in Judaism. However in Islam, the resting of god is rejected:
The traditional Jewish and Christian view of the Sabbath relates its existence to creation of the world in six days, with God resting on the seventh. This notion, however, is explicitly rejected in the Quran:
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And We did certainly create the heavens and earth and what is between them in six days, and there '''touched Us no weariness'''.
And We did certainly create the heavens and earth and what is between them in six days, and there '''touched Us no weariness'''.
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Furthermore the traditional Islamic commentariat has been even more explicit in its rejection of the idea that God would have need for rest:


From Tafsir Ibn Kathir:
From Tafsir Ibn Kathir:
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So in Islam, god created the world in 6 days and that's it. There's no reason for week to have 7 days. Yet Islamic week has 7 days. It seems that Muhammad abolished the resting of god, but forgot the connection to the 7 days of the week which is based on the story of 6 days of creation plus 1 day of rest.
Rather than the certainty around the question found in the traditional Jewish and Christian commentariats around the question, to this very day the Islamic clerical community remains undecided on the divine origin of the the seven-day week: {{Quote|[https://islamqa.info/en/answers/110226/why-is-the-week-seven-days islamqa.info: Why is the week seven days?]|
 
There is a fatwa where Islamic sholars were asked why a week in Islam has 7 days, but they didn't have a clear answer:
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We cannot be certain about anything with regard of the division of the week into seven days, or the time when this division began – was it before the creation of the heavens and the earth, or was the creation of the heavens and the earth what led to this division? The reason for that is that we have no clear evidence which states anything certain to that effect..
We cannot be certain about anything with regard of the division of the week into seven days, or the time when this division began – was it before the creation of the heavens and the earth, or was the creation of the heavens and the earth what led to this division? The reason for that is that we have no clear evidence which states anything certain to that effect..
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==References==
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