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Islam leaves out the seventh day of rest, and Muslims often will say that God does not need to rest. The Bible clearly teaches that God stopped working on the seventh day. It is the Fourth Commandment that God gave to Moses, and Muslims don’t keep it.
Genesis 2:1–3: Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. And on the seventh day God finished his work that he had done, and he rested on the seventh day from all his work that he had done. So God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it God rested from all his work that he had done in creation.
Exodus 20:8–11:“Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days you shall labor, and do all your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God. On it you shall not do any work, you, or your son, or your daughter, your male servant, or your female servant, or your livestock, or the sojourner who is within your gates. For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy.
Mark 2:27: And he said to them, “The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath.
The verses below sound pious but don’t really help to explain why we have a seven-day week.
Surah 10:3 - Your Lord is God, who created the heavens and the earth in six days, then settled over the Throne, governing all things. There is no intercessor except after His permission. Such is God, your Lord—so serve Him. Will you not reflect?
Surah 50:38 - We created the heavens and the earth and what is between them in six days, and no fatigue touched Us.
The Quran fails to recognise the covenant importance of the Sabbath and that it was not God who needed a rest but that it was for the benefit of mankind. Jesus confirms that God intended it for man.