Indeed, that is evidence of Allah Most High’s mercy, as He says: “Out of His mercy, He has made for you the night and the day, so that you may rest in it and seek of His bounty, and so that you may give thanks.” It also demonstrates the perfection of His wisdom, for His wisdom ordained that creation should be still at one time, so that they may rest (1) and recuperate (2), and that they should go forth at another time in pursuit of their religious and worldly interests. This can only be achieved through the succession of night and day. The One who alone brings this about is the One deserving of worship.

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(24) “And among His signs is that He shows you the lightning, inspiring fear and hope, and sends down water from the sky, thereby reviving the earth after its death. Surely in that are signs for people who understand.”

That is, among His signs is that He sends down upon you the rain by which the lands and their inhabitants are given life, and before its descent He shows you its precursors: thunder and lightning, which inspire both fear and hope.

“Surely in that are signs” [indicating] the universality of His beneficence, the vastness of His knowledge, the perfection of His workmanship, His tremendous wisdom, and that He gives life to the dead just as He revived the earth after its death.

“For people who understand”—that is, people who possess minds by which they comprehend, retain, and reflect upon what they hear and see, and thereby infer what it was made to signify.

(1) An addition in manuscript A.

(2) The word is unclear in both manuscripts and appears to read wa-yajummū (“and they rest”). Two letters were added in manuscript B, making it yastajimmū (“they recuperate”).