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without any reckoning.’ (3:27) command. Both creation and command belong
They are not all the same. There is a community to Him. Blessed be Allah, the Lord of all the
among the People of the Book who are upright. worlds. (7:54)
They recite Allah’s Signs throughout the night, Do the people of the cities feel secure against
and they prostrate. (3:113) Our violent force coming down on them in the
In the creation of the heavens and the earth, and night while they are asleep? (7:97)
the alternation of night and day, there are Signs We set aside thirty nights for Musa and then com-
for people with intelligence. (3:190) pleted them with ten, so the appointed time of
They have the word, ‘Obedience!’ on their his Lord was forty nights in all. Musa said to his
tongues but when they leave your presence, a brother Harun, ‘Take my place among my peo-
group of them spend the night plotting to do ple. Keep order and do not follow the way of the
other than what you say. Allah is recording their corrupters.’ (7:142)
nocturnal plotting. So let them be and put your In the alternation of night and day and what
trust in Allah. Allah suffices as a Guardian. (4:81) Allah has created in the heavens and the earth
They try to conceal themselves from people, but there are Signs for people who guard against evil.
they cannot conceal themselves from Allah. He (10:6)
is with them when they spend the night saying The metaphor of the life of this world is that of
things which are not pleasing to Him. Allah en- water which We send down from the sky, and
compasses everything they do. (4:108) which then mingles with the plants of the earth to
All that inhabits the night and the day belongs to provide food for both people and animals. Then,
Him. He is the All-Hearing, the All-Knowing. when the earth is at its loveliest and takes on its
(6:13) fairest guise and its people think they have it
Say: ‘What do you think? If Allah’s punishment under their control, Our command comes upon
were to come upon you suddenly by night or it by night or day and We reduce it to dried-out
openly by day, would any but the wrongdoing stubble, as though it had not been flourishing just
people be destroyed?’ (6:47) the day before! In this way We make Our Signs
It is He Who takes you back to Himself at night, clear for people who reflect. (10:24)
while knowing the things you perpetrate by day, But as for those who have earned bad actions–a
and then wakes you up again, so that a specified bad action will be repaid with one the like of it.
term may be fulfilled. Then you will return to Debasement will darken them. They will have no
Him. Then He will inform you about what you one to protect them from Allah. It is as if their
did. (6:60) faces were covered by dark patches of the night.
When night covered him he (Ibrahim) saw a star Those are the Companions of the Fire, remaining
and said, ‘This is my Lord!’ Then when it set he in it timelessly, for ever. (10:27)
said, ‘I do not love what sets.’ (6:76) Say: ‘What do you think? If His punishment came
It is He Who splits the sky at dawn, and appoints upon you by night or day, what part of it would
the night as a time of stillness and the sun and the evildoers then try to hasten?’ (10:50)
moon as a means of reckoning. That is what the It is He Who appointed the night for you, so that
Almighty, the All-Knowing has ordained. (6:96) you could rest in it, and the day for seeing. There
How many cities We have destroyed! Our vio- are certainly Signs in that for people who listen.
lent force came down on them during the night, (10:67)
or while they were asleep during the day. (7:4) They said, ‘Lut, we are messengers from your
Your Lord is Allah, Who created the heavens and Lord. They will not be able to get at you. Set out
the earth in six days and then settled Himself with your family–except for your wife–in the
firmly on the Throne. He covers the day with the middle of the night and none of you should look
night, each pursuing the other urgently; and the back. What strikes them will strike her as well.
sun and moon and stars are subservient to His Their promised appointment is the morning. Is
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