Al-Qur'an Surah Al-Hajj Verse 61

Mufti Taqi Usmani

That is because Allah makes night enter into the day and makes day enter into the night and that Allah is All-Hearing, All-Seeing.

Dr. Mustafa Khattab, the Clear Quran

That is because Allah causes the night to merge into the day, and the day into the night. Indeed, Allah is All-Hearing, All-Seeing.

Ruwwad Translation Center

That is because it is Allah Who causes the night to merge into the day, and causes the day to merge into the night. And Allah is All-Hearing, All-Seeing.

A. J. Arberry

That is because God makes the night to enter into the day and makes the day to enter into the night; and that God is All-hearing, All-seeing.

Abdul Haleem

So it will be, because God makes night pass into day, and day into night, and He is all hearing and all seeing.

Abdul Majid Daryabadi

That is to be because Allah plungeth the night into the day and plungeth the day into the night, and because He is Hearing, Beholding.

Abdullah Yusuf Ali

That is because Allah merges night into day, and He merges day into night, and verily it is Allah Who hears and sees (all things).

Abul Ala Maududi

So shall it be because it is Allah Who causes the night to emerge out of the day and causes the day to emerge out of the night and Allah is All-Hearing, All-Seeing.

Ahmed Ali

That is so for God turns night into day and day into night, for God is all-hearing and all-seeing;

Ahmed Raza Khan

This is because Allah inserts the night into a part of the day and inserts the day into a part of the night, and because Allah is All Hearing, All Seeing.

Ali Quli Qarai

So will it be, because Allah makes the night pass into the day and makes the day pass into the night, and because Allah is all-hearing, all-seeing.

Ali Ünal

So (will He do), because God makes the night pass into the day and makes the day pass into the night, and God is All-Hearing, All-Seeing.

Amatul Rahman Omar

That (system of requital) is to prove that it is Allâh Who makes the night gain on the day and makes the day gain on the night and that Allâh is All-Hearing, All-Seeing.

English Literal

That (is) with that God makes the night to enter/penetrate in the daytime, and He makes the daytime to enter/penetrate in the night, and that God (is) hearing/listening, seeing/understanding.

Faridul Haque

This is because Allah inserts the night into a part of the day and inserts the day into a part of the night, and because Allah is All Hearing, All Seeing.

Hamid S. Aziz

That is so. Whoever retaliates with the like of what He has been made to suffer, and shall then be wronged again, Allah shall surely succour him; verily, Allah blots out sins and is constantly Forgiving.

Hilali & Khan

That is because Allah merges the night into the day, and He merges the day into the night. And verily, Allah is All-Hearer, All-Seer.

Maulana Mohammad Ali

That (is so). And whoever retaliates with the like of that with which he is afflicted and he is oppressed, Allah will certainly help him. Surely Allah is Pardoning, Forgiving.

Mohammad Habib Shakir

That is because Allah causes the night to enter into the day and causes the day to enter into the night, and because Allah is Hearing, Seeing.

Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall

That is because Allah maketh the night to pass into the day and maketh the day to pass into the night, and because Allah is Hearer, Seer.

Muhammad Sarwar

God causes the night to enter the day and the day to enter the night. He is All-hearing and All-aware.

Qaribullah & Darwish

That is because Allah causes the night to enter into the day, and the day enter into the night. Allah is the Hearer and the Seer.

Safi-ur-Rahman al-Mubarakpuri

That is because Allah merges the night into the day, and He merges the day into the night. And verily, Allah is All-Hearer, All-Seer.

Wahiduddin Khan

That is because God makes the night pass into the day and makes the day pass into the night. God is all hearing and all seeing.

Talal Itani

That is because God merges the night into the day, and He merges the day into the night, and because God is Hearing and Seeing.

Tafsir jalalayn

That, help, is because God makes the night pass into the day and makes the day pass into the night, that is to say, He makes each enter into the other by increasing the one [and decreasing the other], which is a sign of His power, exalted be He, [the same power] that produces [His] help, and because God is Hearer, of the supplications of believers, Seer, of them, giving them faith and responding to their supplications.

Tafseer Ibn Kathir

The Creator and Controller of this World is Allah

Allah tells;

ذَلِكَ بِأَنَّ اللَّهَ يُولِجُ اللَّيْلَ فِي النَّهَارِ وَيُولِجُ النَّهَارَ فِي اللَّيْلِ

That is because Allah merges the night into the day, and He merges the day into the night.

Allah tells us that He is the Creator Who directs the affairs of His creation as He wills.

He tells us;

قُلِ اللَّهُمَّ مَـلِكَ الْمُلْكِ تُوْتِى الْمُلْكَ مَن تَشَأءُ وَتَنزِعُ الْمُلْكَ مِمَّن تَشَأءُ وَتُعِزُّ مَن تَشَأءُ وَتُذِلُّ مَن تَشَأءُ بِيَدِكَ الْخَيْرُ إِنَّكَ عَلَى كُلِّ شَىْءٍ قَدِيرٌ

تُولِجُ الَّيْلَ فِى الْنَّهَارِ وَتُولِجُ النَّهَارَ فِى الَّيْلِ وَتُخْرِجُ الْحَىَّ مِنَ الْمَيِّتِ وَتُخْرِجُ الَمَيِّتَ مِنَ الْحَىِّ وَتَرْزُقُ مَن تَشَأءُ بِغَيْرِ حِسَابٍ

Say;"O Allah! Possessor of the power, You give power to whom You will, and You take power from whom You will, and You endue with honor whom You will, and You humiliate whom You will. In Your Hand is the good. Verily, You are able to do all things.

You make the night to enter into the day, and You make the day to enter into the night, You bring the living out of the dead, and You bring the dead out of the living. And You give wealth and sustenance to whom You will, without limit. (3;26-27)

The meaning of "merging" the night into the day and the day into the night is that the one encroaches upon the other, and vice versa. Sometimes the night is long and the day is short, as in winter, and sometimes the day is long and the night is short, as in summer.

وَأَنَّ اللَّهَ سَمِيعٌ بَصِيرٌ



And verily, Allah is All-Hearer, All-Seer.

He hears what His servants say, and He sees them, nothing about them or their movement is hidden from Him whatsoever.

When Allah tells us that He is controlling the affairs of all that exists, and that He judges, and there is none to reverse His judgement, He says