LessonsCommands: Definition, Obligation, Unrestricted Forms and RepetitionQuiz

فكان تكرار العبادة المتكررة هذا الطريق، لا بطريق أن الأمر يقتضي التكرار.
Repeated acts of worship recur through their recurring causes, not because the bare command intrinsically means “repeat.”

When the time for ẓuhr prayer arrives, the corresponding obligation arises. On the following day, a renewed prayer time brings a fresh obligation. Similarly, the recurring month of Ramadan establishes the obligation of its fasts through the law governing that season.

The command calls for discharge of those obligations; the time or cause explains their recurrence. Separating the two reconciles the proposition that a bare imperative can be fulfilled through one performance with the fact that worship may be obligatory at many distinct times.

Recurring legal duty need not be derived from grammatical repetition in the imperative itself.

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Prayer and fasting: recurrent duties through recurrent causes

Commands: Definition, Obligation, Unrestricted Forms and Repetition

فكان تكرار العبادة المتكررة هذا الطريق، لا بطريق أن الأمر يقتضي التكرار.
Repeated acts of worship recur through their recurring causes, not because the bare command intrinsically means “repeat.”

When the time for ẓuhr prayer arrives, the corresponding obligation arises. On the following day, a renewed prayer time brings a fresh obligation. Similarly, the recurring month of Ramadan establishes the obligation of its fasts through the law governing that season.

The command calls for discharge of those obligations; the time or cause explains their recurrence. Separating the two reconciles the proposition that a bare imperative can be fulfilled through one performance with the fact that worship may be obligatory at many distinct times.

Recurring legal duty need not be derived from grammatical repetition in the imperative itself.