22:61

ذَٰلِكَ بِأَنَّ ٱللَّهَ يُولِجُ ٱلَّيۡلَ فِي ٱلنَّهَارِ وَيُولِجُ ٱلنَّهَارَ فِي ٱلَّيۡلِ وَأَنَّ ٱللَّهَ سَمِيعُۢ بَصِيرٞ

Thalika bianna Allaha yooliju allayla fee alnnahari wayooliju alnnahara fee allayli waanna Allaha sameeAAun baseerun

That is because Allah causes the night to enter the day and causes the day to enter the night and because Allah is Hearing and Seeing.

Word by word
  1. ذَٰلِكَThat
  2. بِأَنَّ(is) because
  3. ٱللَّهَAllah
  4. يُولِجُcauses to enter
  5. ٱلَّيۡلَthe night
  6. فِيin (to)
  7. ٱلنَّهَارِthe day
  8. وَيُولِجُand causes to enter
  9. ٱلنَّهَارَthe day
  10. فِيin (to)
  11. ٱلَّيۡلِthe night
  12. وَأَنَّAnd indeed
  13. ٱللَّهَAllah
  14. سَمِيعُۢ(is) All-Hearer
  15. بَصِيرٞAll-Seer
Al-Hajj · 22:61Madinah

Night into day, day into night: He hears and sees.

The One who shifts the hours can shift your situation


The merging
nightlong in winter
enters
daylong in summer
by
AllahAll-Hearing, All-Seeing
Why help is sure
things stay as they areno change possible
He turns things overlike day and night

Ibn Kathir says Allah directs the affairs of creation as He wills. Merging means one encroaches on the other: long nights in winter, long days in summer. He hears what His servants say and sees them.

You wake at 4am, anxious, in a dark kitchen. Then light slowly comes through the window. The One who does that every morning is the One who heard your worry in the dark.

My hard season will never change.

The One who turns night into day can turn my situation, and He hears me.

Try this

Watch the sky change at sunrise or sunset today and make one dua then.

Simplified reflection. Read the tafsir for scholarship.draft
Tafsir Ibn Kathir

That is because Allah merges the night into the day, and He merges the day into the night. And verily, Allah is All-Hearer, All-Seer (61)That is because Allah – He is the Truth, and what they invoke besides Him, it is false. And verily, Allah – He is the Most High, the Most Great (62)

The Creator and Controller of this World is Allah

Allah tells us that He is the Creator Who directs the affairs of His creation as He wills. He tells us:

قُلِ اللَّهُمَّ مَالِكَ الْمُلْكِ تُؤْتِي الْمُلْكَ مَن تَشَاءُ وَتَنزِعُ الْمُلْكَ مِمَّن تَشَاءُ وَتُعِزُّ مَن تَشَاءُ وَتُذِلُّ مَن تَشَاءُ ۖ بِيَدِكَ الْخَيْرُ ۖ إِنَّكَ عَلَىٰ كُلِّ شَيْءٍ قَدِيرٌ - تُولِجُ اللَّيْلَ فِي النَّهَارِ وَتُولِجُ النَّهَارَ فِي اللَّيْلِ ۖ وَتُخْرِجُ الْحَيَّ مِنَ الْمَيِّتِ وَتُخْرِجُ الْمَيِّتَ مِنَ الْحَيِّ ۖ وَتَرْزُقُ مَن تَشَاءُ بِغَيْرِ حِسَابٍ

(Say: "O Allah! Possessor of the power, You give power to whom You will, and You take power from whom You will, and You endue with honor whom You will, and You humiliate whom You will. In Your Hand is the good. Verily, You are able to do all things. You make the night to enter into the day, and You make the day to enter into the night, You bring the living out of the dead, and You bring the dead out of the living. And You give wealth and sustenance to whom You will, without limit.)(3:26-27)

The meaning of "merging" the night into the day and the day into the night is that the one encroaches upon the other, and vice versa. Sometimes the night is long and the day is short, as in winter, and sometimes the day is long and the night is short, as in summer.

وَأَنَّ اللَّهَ سَمِيعٌ بَصِيرٌ

(And verily, Allah is All-Hearer, All-Seer.) He hears what His servants say, and He sees them, nothing about them or their movement is hidden from Him whatsoever. When Allah tells us that He is controlling the affairs of all that exists, and that He judges, and there is none to reverse His judgement, He says:

ذَٰلِكَ بِأَنَّ اللَّهَ هُوَ الْحَقُّ

(That is because Allah – He is the Truth,) meaning, the true God, besides Whom no one deserves worship. He is the Possessor of the greatest sovereignty; whatever He wills happens and whatever He does not will does not happen. Everything is in need of Him and submits to Him.

وَأَنَّ مَا يَدْعُونَ مِن دُونِهِ هُوَ الْبَاطِلُ 

(and what they invoke besides Him, it is false.) meaning, the idols and false gods. Everything that is worshipped instead of Him – may He be exalted – is false, because it can neither bring benefit nor cause harm.

وَأَنَّ اللَّهَ هُوَ الْعَلِيُّ الْكَبِيرُ

(And verily, Allah – He is the Most High, the Most Great.) This is like the Ayat:

وَهُوَ الْعَلِيُّ الْعَظِيمُ

(and He is the Most High, the Most Great)(42:4)

الْكَبِيرُ الْمُتَعَالِ

(the Most Great, the Most High)[13:9]. Everything is subject to His might and power; there is no God except Him and no Lord besides Him, because He is the Almighty and there is none mightier than He, the Most High and there is none higher than He, the Most Great and there is none greater than He. Exalted, sanctified, and glorified be He far above all that the evildoers say.