After sunset the horizon may retain a red glow. A later stage of residual whiteness can remain before full darkness.
On the red-twilight view, Isha begins once the redness disappears. On the white-twilight view, Isha begins later, after that whiteness also disappears.
The same legal phrase “when twilight disappears” thus produces different boundaries because the term shafaq is interpreted differently.
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After sunset the horizon may retain a red glow. A later stage of residual whiteness can remain before full darkness.
On the red-twilight view, Isha begins once the redness disappears. On the white-twilight view, Isha begins later, after that whiteness also disappears.
The same legal phrase “when twilight disappears” thus produces different boundaries because the term shafaq is interpreted differently.