surah al layl (The night) | The paradise place
وَمَا لِأَحَدٍ عِندَهُ مِن نِّعْمَةٍ تُجْزَىٰ (while no one has conferred any favour on him for which he would give a return,...92:19) Sayyidna Abu Bakr ؓ did this great favour by spending abundant wealth. The emancipated slaves had not done him any favour in the past, so that one could say that he was returning their favour. He took this step for one purpose only as the verse says:
إِلَّا ابْتِغَاءَ وَجْهِ رَبِّهِ الْأَعْلَىٰ (but [ he gave his wealth in charity ] only to seek the Countenance of his Lord, the Most High....92:20). Mustadrak of Hakim records that it was a usual practice of Sayyidna Abu Bakr that he used to purchase Muslim slaves from the disbelievers and set them free whenever he found them in their bondage. Generally, these people were weak and helpless. Abu Qahafah ؓ ، the father of Abu Bakr ؓ ، said to him: "Since you are emancipating slaves, why do you not set free strong and brave people, so that they may assist you in fighting the enemies and protect you." He replied: "My purpose of emancipating them is not to expect any benefit in return. My only purpose is to seek the pleasure of Allah." [ Mazhari ]
وَلَسَوْفَ يَرْضَىٰ (And surely he will soon be happy...92:21). Whoever spends in Allah's way with pure and good intentions of pleasing Allah, and not for any personal worldly gains, will acquire the pleasure of Allah in the Hereafter by achieving the wonderful and eternal blessings of Paradise. It is confirmed that these verses were revealed about Sayyidna Abu Bakr ؓ . Therefore, this last verse of the Surah is a great and splendid news and honour for him given in this very world by Allah.
Al-hamdulillah
The Commentary on
Surah Al-Lail
Ends here
llah (swt) swears by the night as it covers up but He (swt) does not mention what he covers up which is a part of the style of this surah where objects are not mentioned. The benefit of this is that it poses a question of what is covered up. Allah (swt) wants us to contemplate and reflect on the Quran and to not expect to have everything spelt out for us and this is one of the great styles of the Quran. The word yaghsha means to cover with darkness all that had light before and when Allah (swt) refers to the night he is alluding to disbelief and when he refers to the day he is alluding to revelation which like light gets rid of darkness. In the previous surah the night was also mentioned using the same word in a very similar looking ayah. In Ash-Shams though there was a pronoun attached (yaghshaha). The pronoun made it clear that the sun was being referred to and that the night covers up the sun. Thus, the question posed in this surah was answered in the previous surah. We learn from this that this surah is almost expecting us to look at the previous surah as a reference point because by saying yaghsha without an object you are forced to think what the object might be and that takes you back to the previous surah where it was mentioned.
When Allah (swt) speaks about the night and it’s covering up he uses the present tense. In English we think of the past and present tense in very simple terms but in the Arabic language there are additional benefits. One of the benefits of the present tense is that it can also be used for something incomplete whilst the past tense is used for a complete act. The benefit of using the present tense here is understood when we appreciate that the night is covered up gradually in stages and does not necessarily cover everything up. Furthermore, we learnt in the previous surah that some light from the sun does still come out and is used by the moon which reflects it and allows us to see at night. So the use of the present tense tells us that the night is not absolute in its covering. There is a difference in the sequencing also as in the previous surah the covering of the night was mentioned after the brilliance of the day and in this surah the opposite sequence is used with the covering of the night mentioned first.
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