Transliteration:( Wa minal laili fasjud lahoo wa sabbihhu lailan taweelaa )
"And prostrate [39] to Him during part of the night and glorify Him for long through the night [40],"
✅ [39] Prostration and the Importance of Night Worship
This verse urges additional worship beyond the obligatory prayers, particularly through prostration during the night.
It is a reference to the Maghrib and Isha prayers, but also emphasizes optional night prayers (like Tahajjud), where prostration is performed during the night as an act of devotion and submission to Allah.
✅ [40] Glorification through Extended Worship
The verse encourages the believer to glorify Allah and engage in extended worship through the night, particularly through the Nawafil (optional) prayers, which are performed as an act of seeking closeness to Allah.
Tahajjud is specifically highlighted, which is an important and recommended prayer performed during the late hours of the night.
This verse calls the believer to engage in acts of devotion beyond obligatory duties, using this time to remember Allah through glorification and extra prayer.
The tafsir of Surah Al-Insan verse 26 by Ibn Kathir is unavailable here.
Please refer to Surah Insan ayat 23 which provides the complete commentary from verse 23 through 31.
(76:26) and prostrate yourself before Him at night, and extol His Glory during the long watches of the night.[30]
30. The rule followed in the Quran is that wherever the Muslims have been exhorted to show patience against the disbelievers, immediately after it they have been commanded to remember Allah much and to observe the Prayer, which automatically implies that the power needed to meet the resistance of the enemies of the truth in the way of true faith can be obtained only by this means. To remember Allah morning and evening may also imply remembering Allah always but when the command to remember Allah at specific times is given, it implies the salat (Prayer). In this verse, bukrah means the morning and asil the time from the sun’s decline till sunset, which obviously covers the Zuhr and the Asr times. Night starts after sunset; therefore, the command “to prostrate yourself in the night” would apply to both the Maghrib and the Isha Prayers. Then, the command “to glorify Allah in the long hours of night”, clearly points to the time of the Tahajjud Prayer. see (Surah Bani Israil, ayat 78-79) note 92-97, (Surah Al-Muzzammil, ayat 1) note 2. This also shows that these have been the Prayer times in Islam from the beginning. However, the command making the Prayer obligatory five times a day with fixed times and number of rakahs was given on the occasion of miraj (ascension).
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