ٱلْإِسْرَاء : ١٢

  • وَجَعَلۡنَا And We have made
  • ٱلَّيۡلَ the night
  • وَٱلنَّهَارَ and the day
  • ءَايَتَيۡنِۖ (as) two signs
  • فَمَحَوۡنَآ Then We erased
  • ءَايَةَ (the) sign
  • ٱلَّيۡلِ (of) the night
  • وَجَعَلۡنَآ and We made
  • ءَايَةَ (the) sign
  • ٱلنَّهَارِ (of) the day
  • مُبۡصِرَةٗ visible
  • لِّتَبۡتَغُواْ that you may seek
  • فَضۡلٗا bounty
  • مِّن from
  • رَّبِّكُمۡ your Lord
  • وَلِتَعۡلَمُواْ and that you may know
  • عَدَدَ (the) number
  • ٱلسِّنِينَ (of) the years
  • وَٱلۡحِسَابَۚ and the account
  • وَكُلَّ And every
  • شَيۡءٖ thing
  • فَصَّلۡنَٰهُ We have explained it
  • تَفۡصِيلٗا (in) detail
And We have made the night and day two signs, and We erased the sign of the night and made the sign of the day visible1 that you may seek bounty from your Lord and may know the number of years and the account [of time]. And everything We have set out in detail.
Footnotes
1 - Or "giving sight."
And We made the night and the day two signs, [both] indicators of Our power. Then We effaced the sign ofthe night, extinguishing its light with darkness, so that you might repose therein (the annexation [aayata'layli, 'the sign of the night', is explicative), and made the sign of the day sight-giving, in other words, one in which it is possible to see because of the light; that you may seek, therein, bounty from your Lord, by earning [your livelihood], and that you may know, by both [day and night], the number of years and the reckoning, of the times [of the day], and everything, that might be needed, We have detailed very distinctly, We have explained clearly.