سُوْرَةُ الرُّوْمِ
Surah Ar-Room (30) — Ayah 23
وَمِنْ ءَايَـٰتِهِۦ مَنَامُكُم بِٱلَّيْلِ وَٱلنَّهَارِ وَٱبْتِغَآؤُكُم مِّن فَضْلِهِۦٓ ۚ إِنَّ فِى ذَٰلِكَ لَـَٔايَـٰتٍ لِّقَوْمٍ يَسْمَعُونَ ﴿23﴾
Translation by Dr. Muhammad Muhsin Khan & Dr. Taqi-ud-Din al-Hilali
And among His Signs is your sleep by night and by day, and your seeking of His Bounty. Verily, in that are indeed signs for a people who listen.
Word by Word — Arabic, Transliteration & Meaning
وَمِنْ
wamin
And among
ءَايَـٰتِهِۦ
āyātihi
His Signs
مَنَامُكُم
manāmukum
(is) your sleep
بِٱلَّيْلِ
bi-al-layli
by night
وَٱلنَّهَارِ
wal-nahāri
and the day
وَٱبْتِغَآؤُكُم
wa-ib'tighāukum
[and] your seeking
مِّن
min
of
فَضْلِهِۦٓ ۚ
faḍlihi
His Bounty
إِنَّ
inna
Indeed
فِى
fī
in
ذَٰلِكَ
dhālika
that
لَـَٔايَـٰتٍۢ
laāyātin
surely (are) Signs
لِّقَوْمٍۢ
liqawmin
for a people
يَسْمَعُونَ
yasmaʿūna
who listen
Tafsir Taiseer ul-Quran — Maulana Abdul Rahman Kilani
Tafsir Taiseer ul-Quran (Facilitation of the Quran) is a comprehensive Quran commentary by Maulana Abdul Rahman Kilani, a renowned Salafi (Ahl al-Hadith) scholar from Pakistan. Known for his eloquent and accessible writing style, Kilani authored this tafsir with a focus on clarity — making Quranic meanings understandable to the common reader. The tafsir provides detailed historical context for verses related to battles and expeditions, and firmly refutes modernist ideologies using strong scriptural evidence. It is widely regarded as an invaluable resource for understanding the Quran and countering deviant interpretations. The tafsir is originally written in Urdu, translated to English by tohed.com.
23. And among His signs is your sleep by night and by day, and your seeking of His bounty [20]. Surely in this are signs for people who listen attentively.
[20]
Sleep and Dreaming in Sleep Are Both Hidden Mysteries:
After working, a person needs rest; if he does not rest, living itself becomes impossible. But rest does not mean that a person simply stops working for a while or lies down on the bed; rather, until he falls into deep sleep, neither is his fatigue removed nor does he become capable of working further, and merely stopping work or lying down does not achieve the purpose. What is sleep, what is its nature and reality? This is such a hidden mystery that man has not yet discovered. He has even invented sedatives and made pills, but he has not been able to grasp its reality—what is it that diminishes in a person during a dream so that his senses stop functioning? Then, dreaming during a dream is another astonishing issue: with which senses does a person see these dreams? Man only knows that when he becomes very tired, whether he wishes or not, sleep overcomes him. During work, the cells in a person's body that are expended begin to die, and new cells are formed in their place, and when all this work is completed, the person automatically wakes up—that is, the coming of sleep, the removal of fatigue through sleep, and then, after the fatigue is gone, waking up refreshed on his own—all these abilities have been granted by Allah Almighty, which are entirely based on wisdom and benefit, and in them, no other deity has any involvement.
Working at Night and Sleeping During the Day Are Harmful Both Religiously and Worldly:
A person’s means of livelihood and necessities of life are scattered all around the earth. After sleep, a person becomes capable of seeking his sustenance with renewed energy. For seeking sustenance, light was needed; therefore, the daytime was specified for this work, and for sleep, darkness and coolness were needed—one darkness is obtained simply by closing the eyes, the other is the darkness of night. In this way, Allah has appointed the night for rest. Although nowadays man has invented such artificial means that he has become capable of working at night and also rests during the day, and this is a demand of the materialistic age. Because of this, man has become heedless to the same extent of the remembrance of Allah, and the worldly harm is that it has unpleasant effects on a person’s health, and human faculties begin to weaken before their time.
[20]
Sleep and Dreaming in Sleep Are Both Hidden Mysteries:
After working, a person needs rest; if he does not rest, living itself becomes impossible. But rest does not mean that a person simply stops working for a while or lies down on the bed; rather, until he falls into deep sleep, neither is his fatigue removed nor does he become capable of working further, and merely stopping work or lying down does not achieve the purpose. What is sleep, what is its nature and reality? This is such a hidden mystery that man has not yet discovered. He has even invented sedatives and made pills, but he has not been able to grasp its reality—what is it that diminishes in a person during a dream so that his senses stop functioning? Then, dreaming during a dream is another astonishing issue: with which senses does a person see these dreams? Man only knows that when he becomes very tired, whether he wishes or not, sleep overcomes him. During work, the cells in a person's body that are expended begin to die, and new cells are formed in their place, and when all this work is completed, the person automatically wakes up—that is, the coming of sleep, the removal of fatigue through sleep, and then, after the fatigue is gone, waking up refreshed on his own—all these abilities have been granted by Allah Almighty, which are entirely based on wisdom and benefit, and in them, no other deity has any involvement.
Working at Night and Sleeping During the Day Are Harmful Both Religiously and Worldly:
A person’s means of livelihood and necessities of life are scattered all around the earth. After sleep, a person becomes capable of seeking his sustenance with renewed energy. For seeking sustenance, light was needed; therefore, the daytime was specified for this work, and for sleep, darkness and coolness were needed—one darkness is obtained simply by closing the eyes, the other is the darkness of night. In this way, Allah has appointed the night for rest. Although nowadays man has invented such artificial means that he has become capable of working at night and also rests during the day, and this is a demand of the materialistic age. Because of this, man has become heedless to the same extent of the remembrance of Allah, and the worldly harm is that it has unpleasant effects on a person’s health, and human faculties begin to weaken before their time.
