وَجَعَلْنَا نَوْمَكُمْ سُبَاتًا WajaAAalna nawmakum subaata 'and made your sleep a source of rest,' [Surah An-Naba] 'Nawm' refers to deep sleep. Allah says He made your deep sleep 'subaata' . Literally Subaat means that which cuts off . Allah speaks of night as something that cuts you off . What does it cut you off from ? First of all it cuts your body off from its soul. Sleep is indeed a kind of minor death . Your soul departs from your body every night. You are cut off from your business , your tasks , from your family , from all the chores as soon as you hit deep sleep. It's as if you don't exist for those few hours. This is actually very important as it is foreshadowing of what Allah talks about a little while later in this Surah and that is the Resurrection Day. One of the most important features of Resurrection day is that all human beings will be cut off from each other . Allah says : '....that Day a man will flee from his brother, and his mother and his father, and his wife and his children. For each one of them that Day will have enough preoccupations of his own.' [Surah 'Abasa] The above is the kind of cutting off that would be permanent. We experience something from that cutting off every single day . We can't even help our own sleep. No matter how much we try to avoid sleeping; in the end we will be overpowered by it. And this is the kind of power Allah has on even the one who disbelieves, the one who denies Allah and the Hereafter. Subhan'Allah the logic here is that such are the powers Allah has on us . Signs of Allah that are so clear and obvious in the creation around us and within our own selves. Does man think that the one who created all these things ; does not have the power to create life again ? - Tafseer notes from Ustadh Nouman Ali Khan's lecture.
Mohammad Alansari
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سبحان الله يوم مخيف وتذكير بأن أقرب الناس لن يتذكر او يهتم ببعض يوم القيامة.. فمهما كانت الصحبة في هذه الدنيا ففي الآخرة لا أثر لها... الا الصحبة الصالحة اللهم ارزقنا اياها... انظر كيف الآية الأخرى تزيد في البعد وتنقلب من تنصل الى عداوة .. الا الصحبة الصالحة يا رب اجعلنا منهم وارزقنا اياهم
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Subhannallah! Ya Allah Almighty count us among those who enter Your Jennah quickly and never hear or smell the fire. Ya Allah. Ameen. La howla wa la quita illa billa