Waiting at an intersection to walk across the street in downtown Tucson Az there were two Arabic men speaking in Arabic. My wife, daughter, and myself continued to wait with them. When the light changed one of the Arabic men glanced at us and spoke in English to the other man,"Jews on Saturday, Christians on Sunday". It seemed to be a very funny inside joke as the two men laughed and crossed the street ahead of us.
What does this saying mean?
2006-12-04 09:33:03 · 7 answers · asked by Gone Rogue 7 in Education & Reference ➔ Words & Wordplay
I should have added it did not seem to be a friendly remark at all. I felt shaken by the remark and why it made enough of an impact as for me to ask what it means.
2006-12-04 10:12:07 · update #1
It must be a Sabbath reference. Jews keep the original Sabbath, from Friday after sundown until Saturday after nightfall (all days on the Hebrew calendar start and end in the evening - for an explanation, check the creation narrative in your Bible; "and there was evening, and there was morning, day one"). Christians keep it on Sunday (having ditched the evening-to-evening paradigm, and to explain a passage in the Gospels that doesn't compute otherwise. Something to do with the resurrection... if Jesus was buried for X days, and he rose on the Sabbath, then the Sabbath must be Sunday, or something like that), with a few exceptions (Seventh Day Adventists, for example). The Muslim "day of gathering" is Friday.
So a Jew might say "Christians on Sunday, Muslims on Friday"...or a Christian might say "Muslims on Friday, Jews on Saturday," though I'm not sure why that would be funny. Then again, I never really saw a point in belittling the rituals of other religions (except Scientology - those guys are fair game as far as I'm concerned).
PS: I'm a UA student (soon to be alum) - WOOOOOO Tucson!
2006-12-08 08:48:16 · answer #1 · answered by Daniel 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Jewish Sabbath is Saturday Christians of course Sunday so the joke is which one gets to go first. Probaly to Muslims this seems funny since they worship 5 times a day regardless and like to make digs at Jews and Christians.
2006-12-04 17:37:58 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
The Sabbath....observed by Jews and some Protestants on Saturday, and the major part of Christendom on Sunday.
2006-12-04 18:27:48 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, I'm not really sure what the saying means, but I know that Muslim's holy day is Friday like Sunday is Christians.
2006-12-04 18:49:03 · answer #4 · answered by , 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It obviously refers to their sabbath day. It was probably thought of as a joke because of the circumstances. Go figure.
2006-12-04 17:39:40 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
For your information, muslims don't like to make fun of jews and chirstians. I am one and have no idea what that joke means. You do know that there are christian arabs right?? And they may have been christian.
2006-12-04 17:42:08 · answer #6 · answered by kamol_yason 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
I heard they worshipped on Thursdays go figure
2006-12-04 17:42:49 · answer #7 · answered by Tapestry6 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋