Motif
ritual fasting and liminal time-marking
ritual_fasting_and_liminal_time_marking
A motif of the Sacred Time and Ritual Cycle family, within the sub-family Timed Prayer, Fasting, and Devotion. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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1 traditions
islamic
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The Koran (Al-Qur'an) CHAPTER I. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD / CHAPTER II. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 9949-10043 confidence: high
The night of the fast permits marital relations, eating, and drinking until the white thread can be distinguished from the black thread by daybreak; then the fast continues until night, with boundaries described as God's prescribed bounds.
The fast is structured by night, daybreak, a white and black thread distinction, and nightfall, with specified permissions and restrictions.
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