Yawm (the day, fiqh)

يَوم

Yawm is lexically a stretch of time from sunrise to sunset, and in the jurists' usage the span from the rising of the second dawn to sunset, so it is longer than the day-light nahr. Legal rules attach to it in vows, retreat and conditional divorce: one who vows a retreat of an unspecified day must, on the majority view, enter the mosque before dawn and leave after sunset, and a divorce suspended on a named day falls at that day's dawn according to most jurists. ^{1 2 3}