that found him gathering sticks brought him unto Moses and Aaron, and unto all the congregation. And they put him in ward, because it was not declared what should be done to him. And the Lord said unto Moses: 'The man shall be surely put to death; all the congregation shall stone him with stones without the camp.' And all the congregation brought him without the camp and stoned him with stones, and he died; as the Lord commanded Moses.

"Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labor and do all thy work, but the seventh day is a sabbath unto the Lord thy God. In it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates. For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the Lord blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it."

I say: If the intent were the Outward (Zahir) of these sayings, it would have been mandatory for the Messenger of Allah (PBUH) to establish them, and it would have been mandatory for him to command the Muslims to fast [observe] the Sabbath as well; thus, the intent is their Inward (Batin) only.

Among what further proves the rejection of the Outward is that which the Lord Christ, peace be upon him, demonstrated to us in the thirteenth chapter of the Gospel of Luke, by his saying: "And he was teaching in one of the synagogues on the sabbath. And, behold, there