10:67 Yunus (Jonas)

هو الذي جعل لكم -أيها الناس- الليل لتسكنوا فيه وتهدؤوا من عناء الحركة في طلب المعاش، وجعل لكم النهار؛ لتبصروا فيه، ولتسعَوْا لطلب رزقكم. إن في اختلاف الليل والنهار وحال أهلهما فيهما لَدلالةً وحججًا على أن الله وحده هو المستحق للعبادة، لقوم يسمعون هذه الحجج، ويتفكرون فيها.

و‏{‏هُوَ الَّذِي جَعَلَ لَكُمُ اللَّيْلَ لِتَسْكُنُوا فِيهِ‏}‏ في النوم والراحة بسبب الظلمة، التي تغشى وجه الأرض، فلو استمر الضياء، لما قروا، ولما سكنوا‏.‏ ‏{‏و‏}‏ جعل الله ‏{‏النَّهَارَ مُبْصِرًا‏}‏ أي‏:‏ مضيئًا، يبصر به الخلق، فيتصرفون في معايشهم، ومصالح دينهم ودنياهم‏.‏ ‏{‏إِنَّ فِي ذَلِكَ لَآيَاتٍ لِقَوْمٍ يَسْمَعُونَ‏}‏ عن الله، سمع فهم، وقبول، واسترشاد، لا سمع تعنت وعناد، فإن في ذلك لآيات، لقوم يسمعون، يستدلون بها على أنه وحده المعبود وأنه الإله الحق، وأن إلهية ما سواه باطلة، وأنه الرءوف الرحيم العليم الحكيم‏.‏

ثم أخبر أنه الذي جعل لعباده الليل ليسكنوا فيه أي يستريحون من نصبهم وكلهم وحركاتهم "والنهار مبصرا" أي مضيئا لمعاشهم وسعيهم وأسفارهم ومصالحهم "إن في ذلك لآيات لقوم يسمعون" أي يسمعون هذه الحجج والأدلة فيعتبرون بها ويستدلون على عظمة خالقها ومقدرها ومسيرها.

He it is Who made for you the night that you should rest therein and the day to see the attribution of sight ibsār to ‘the day’ is figurative since one is able to see during it. Surely in that are signs indications of His Oneness exalted be He for a folk who are able to hear hearing in such a way so as to reflect and be admonished.

It was said in the last verse (64) that, for the friends of Allah, there is the good news in the worldly life and in the Hereafter. As for the good news of the Hereafter, it will come at the time of death when the spirit of the deceased will be taken to Allah. At that time, he will hear the good news of Paradise being for him. Then, on the day of Qiyamah, when he rises from his grave, he will receive the good news of being welcome to Paradise. This is similar to what al-Tabarani has reported from Sayyidna Ibn ` Umar ؓ narrates that the Holy Prophet ﷺ said: ` People who recite: لا إلہ إلا اللہ (la ilaha illallah: There is no god but Allah) will not experience any fright at the time of death, nor inside the grave, nor at the time they rise from it. This is as if my eyes are seeing the scenario of that time when these people will, shaking the dust off, rise from their graves, saying: الْحَمْدُ لِلَّـهِ الَّذِي أَذْهَبَ عَنَّا الْحَزَنَ (Praised is Allah who has removed from us [ all ] grief - 35:34) '

As for the good news in this world, the Holy Prophet ﷺ said, `(they are) the true dreams one sees himself or are seen by someone else with him in it and, in which, there is good news for them. (Reported by al-Bukhri from Sayyidna Abu Hurairah ؓ .

Another basharah (good news) of this world unfolds in the form that Muslims at large love someone and take him to be good without any personal motive or interest. About it, the Holy Prophet ﷺ said: تِلکَ عَاجِلُ بشرَی المؤمِن that is, ` being taken as good and praiseworthy is, for a true Muslim, good news in ready cash.' (Muslim and al-Baghawi)