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259death.The FourthCommandment ofthe Decalogue orders the people of Israel: “Thou shalt remember the Sabbath day to sanctify it.” [1] The students of the Bible know how jealous God is reported to be concerning the strict observation of the Day of Rest. Before Moses (pbuh) ,there was no special law about this; and the nomad Patriarchs do not seem to have observed it. It is very likely that the Jewish Sabbath had its origin in the Babylonian Sabattu.The Quran repudiates the Jewish anthropomorphous conception of the Deity, for it means to say, as if like man, God laboured six days, got fatigued, reposed and slumbered. The sacred verse of the Quran thus runs: “And verily We have created the heavens and the earth, and whatever is between them in six days; and no weariness affected Us”[2] (50: 38).The Jewish idea about the Sabbath had become too material and insidious. Instead of making it a day of comfortable rest and a pleasant holiday, it had been turned into a day of abstinence and confinement. No cooking, no walk,andnoworkofcharityorbeneficencewerepermittedpermitted. The priests in the temple would bake bread and offer sacrifices on the Sabbath-day, but reproached the Prophet of Nazareth when he cured miraculously a man whose arm was withered. [3] To this, Christ said that it was the Sabbath, which was instituted for the benefit of man, and not man for the sake of the Sabbath. Instead of making it a day of worship and then a day of recreation, of innocent pleasure and real repose, they had made it a day of imprisonment and weariness. The least breach of any precept concerning the seventh day was punished with lapidation or some other penalty. Moses (pbuh)[1] Exod. xx.[2] Quran 50 :38 We created the heavens and the earth and all between them in six days, Nor did any sense of weariness touch Us.(Editors).[3] . Matt. xii. 10-13.