Qur'an Verse of the Day
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Chapter 6, Verse 97
فَالِقُ الۡاِصۡبَاحِ ۚ وَجَعَلَ الَّیۡلَ سَکَنًا وَّالشَّمۡسَ وَالۡقَمَرَ حُسۡبَانًا ؕ ذٰلِکَ تَقۡدِیۡرُ الۡعَزِیۡزِ الۡعَلِیۡمِ ﴿۹۷﴾
English Translation
He causes the break of day; and He made the night for rest and the sun and the moon for reckoning time. That is the decree of the Mighty, the Wise.
[b]He causes the break of day and [c]He made the night for rest[880] and [d]the sun and the moon for reckoning of time.[881] That is the measuring of the Mighty, the Wise.
113:2.
25:48; 78:11.
Just as by working during the day, a man gets tired and he goes to sleep at night and is refreshed similarly, the people among whom the Holy Prophet made his appearance had a long night of rest, and their faculties having been reinvigorated they were full of spiritual energy and were eminently fitted to ascend the heights of spiritual development under his lead.
36:39, 40; 55:6.
Just as in the physical world the sun and the moon are indispensable for measuring time and as sources of light, so are the Prophets of God indispensable in the spiritual world.