The Holy Quran 89:4 — Surah Al-Fajr

Arabic text

وَٱلَّيْلِ إِذَا يَسْرِ

Translation

By the night when it departs!

Tafsir (excerpt) — Tafsir Usmani

Oaths by days and times: Shah [Abd al-Qadir] ﵀ writes: “At the dawn of the Eid of Sacrifice the greater Hajj is performed, and the ten nights come before it. The even and the odd are in the last ten days of Ramadan. And ‘the night when it travels’ means [the night when] the Prophet ﷺ [set out] on the Mi'raj (Ascension).

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