25. Surah Al-Furqan, Verse 47
وَهُوَ الَّذ۪ي جَعَلَ لَكُمُ الَّيْلَ لِبَاساً وَالنَّوْمَ سُبَاتاً وَجَعَلَ النَّهَارَ نُشُوراً
Wahuwa allathee jaAAala lakumuallayla libasan wannawma subatan wajaAAalaannahara nushoora
It is He who made the night a cloak for you and sleep a rest, and He made the day a time for rising.
- Progressive Muslims
And He is the One who made for you the night as a cover, and sleep for resting, and He made the day to move about in.
- Shabbir Ahmed
And, He it is Who makes night a robe for you, and sleep a rest, and makes every day to be a resurrection.
- Sam Gerrans
And He it is that appointed for you the night as a covering, and sleep as a rest, and appointed the day as a resurrection.
- The Monotheist Group
AndHe is the One who made for you the night as a cover, and sleep for resting, and He made the day to move about in.
- Edip-Layth
He is the One who made for you the night as a cover, sleep for resting, and He made the day to move about in.
- Aisha Bewley
It is He who made the night a cloak for you and sleep a rest, and He made the day a time for rising.
- Rashad Khalifa
He is the One who designed the night to be a cover, and for you to sleep and rest. And He made the day a resurrection.
- Mohamed Ahmed - Samira
It is He who made the night a covering for you; and made sleep for rest, the day for rising.
- Sahih International
And it is He who has made the night for you as clothing and sleep [a means for] rest and has made the day a resurrection.
- Muhammad Asad
And He it is who makes the night a garment for you, and [your] sleep a rest, and causes every [new] day to be a resurrection.
- Marmaduke Pickthall
And He it is Who maketh night a covering for you, and sleep repose, and maketh day a resurrection.
- Abdel Khalek Himmat
And He is it Who made the night a vestment, and black was the colour chosen to absorb all light and sleep -the medicine to weariness and the repairer of decay- a repose -which if profound suggests death- and We made the day a phase of revival and resurrection of activity.
- Bijan Moeinian
God is the One Who brings the night as a cover for your sleep (a prelude to death) and brings back the day for your resurrection.
- Al-Hilali & Khan
And it is He Who makes the night a covering for you, and the sleep (as) a repose, and makes the day Nushûr (i.e. getting up and going about here and there for daily work, after one’s sleep at night, or like resurrection after one’s death).
- Abdullah Yusuf Ali
And He it is Who makes the Night as a Robe for you, and Sleep as Repose, and makes the Day (as it were) a Resurrection.
- Mustafa Khattab
He is the One Who has made the night for you as a cover, and ˹made˺ sleep for resting, and the day for rising.
- Taqi Usmani
He is the One who has made the night an apparel for you, and the sleep a means of rest, and has made the day a means of revival.
- Abdul Haleem
It is He who made the night a garment for you, and sleep a rest, and made the day like a resurrection.
- Arthur John Arberry
It is He who appointed the night for you to be a garment and sleep for a rest, and day He appointed for a rising.
- E. Henry Palmer
And He it is who made the night for a garment; and sleep for repose, and made the day for men to rise up again.
- Hamid S. Aziz
Then We contract it towards Us with a gradual contraction in easy stages.
- Mahmoud Ghali
And He is the One Who has made the night for you (to be) a garment and sleep for repose and has made day-time for rising.
- George Sale
It is He who hath ordained the night to cover you as a garment; and sleep to give you rest; and hath ordained the day for waking.
- Syed Vickar Ahamed
And it is He Who makes the night as a (long) cover for you, and sleep as rest, and makes the day (like) a resurrection.
- Amatul Rahman Omar
It is He Who has made the night as a covering mantle for you and (Who has made) sleep for (a short) rest (as well as a sign of eternal rest - the death), and (has made) the day for rising up and going about (to seek livelihood and also a sign of Resurrection).
- Ali Quli Qarai
It is He who made for you the night as a covering and sleep for rest and He made the day a recall to life.