عَنْ أَبِي مُوسَى الْأَشْعَرِيّ رضى الله عنه، قَالَ: قَامَ فِينَا رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ بِخَمْسِ كَلِمَاتٍ، فَقَالَ: «إِنَّ اللهَ - عزَّ وجلَّ - لَا يَنَامُ، « وَلَا يَنْبَغِي لَهُ أَنْ يَنَامَ، يَخْفِضُ الْقِسْطَ وَيَرْفَعُهُ، يُرْفَعُ إِلَيْهِ عَمَلُ اللَّيْلِ قَبْلَ عَمَلِ النَّهَارِ، وَعَمَلُ النَّهَارِ قَبْلَ عَمَلِ اللَّيْلِ، حِجَابُهُ النُّورُ - وَفِي رِوَايَةٍ: النَّارُ - لَوْ كَشَفَهُ لَأَحْرَقَتْ سُبُحَاتُ وَجْهِهِ مَا انْتَهَى إِلَيْهِ بَصَرُهُ مِنْ خَلْقِهِ».
Abu Mūsā al-Ash‘arī narrated, saying: ‘God’s Messenger (peace be upon him) addressed us stating five points. He said: “God, the Mighty and Exalted, does not sleep and it is not for Him to sleep. He puts the balance down and up. The works of the night are presented to Him before the works of the day, and the works of the day before the works of the night. His screen is light”. (In a different narration: the fire.) Were He to remove it, the light and splendour of His face would have burnt all creatures in His sight’.
Related by Muslim, 179.
God: there is no deity but Him, the Ever-Living, the Eternal Master of all. Neither slumber nor sleep overtakes Him.
(2: 255)
Yet there are guardians watching over you, (10) noble recorders, (11) who know all that you do.
(82: 10-12)
To Him ascends all good words, and He exalts the good deed.
(35: 10)
God is the light of the heavens and the earth. His light may be compared to a niche containing a lamp; the lamp within a glass, the glass like a radiant star; lit from a blessed tree – an olive tree that is neither of the east nor of the west. Its very oil would almost give light even though no fire had touched it. Light upon light! God guides to His light him that wills [to be guided]. God propounds parables for all people, since God alone has full knowledge of all things.
(24: 35)
When his Lord revealed His glory to the mountain, He sent it crashing down. Moses fell down senseless.
(7: 143)
