[78:7] وَخَلَقْنَاكُمْ أَزْوَاجًا {8} And We Created you in...
[78:7] وَخَلَقْنَاكُمْ أَزْوَاجًا {8} And We Created you in pairs [78:8] وَجَعَلْنَا نَوْمَكُمْ سُبَاتًا {9} And We Made your sleep to be rest [78:9] وَجَعَلْنَا اللَّيْلَ لِبَاسًا {10} And We Made the night a covering [78:10] وَجَعَلْنَا النَّهَارَ مَعَاشًا {11} And We Made the day for livelihood [78:11] ابن بابويه: بإسناده، عن يزيد بن سلام، أنه سأل رسول الله (صلى الله عليه و آله): أخبرني لم سمي الليل ليلا؟ قال: «لأنه يلايل الرجال من النساء، جعله الله عز و جل ألفة و لباسا، و ذلك قول الله عز و جل: وَ جَعَلْنَا اللَّيْلَ لِباساً وَ جَعَلْنَا النَّهارَ مَعاشاً».
قال: صدقت Ibn Babuwayh, by his chain, reports: ‘From Yazeed Bin Salaam, who asked the Rasool-Allah -saww , ‘Inform me, why has the night been named as ‘night’?’ He -saww said: ‘Because the men يلايل (clothing/outfit) [18] from the woman. Allah -azwj Mighty and Majestic Made it for intimacy and a covering (for privacy), and these are the Words of Allah -azwj Mighty and Majestic: And We Made the night a covering [78:10] And We Made the day for livelihood [78:11] ’.
He said, ‘You -saww have spoken the truth’. [19] عَلِيُّ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنْ صَالِحِ بْنِ أَبِي حَمَّادٍ عَنْ غَيْرِ وَاحِدٍ عَنِ الشَّعِيرِيِّ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) قَالَ مَنْ بَاتَ سَاهِراً فِي كَسْبٍ وَ لَمْ يُعْطِ الْعَيْنَ حَظَّهَا مِنَ النَّوْمِ فَكَسْبُهُ ذَلِكَ حَرَامٌ Ali Bin Muhammad, form Salih Bin Abu Hammad, from someone else, from Al Shairy, (It has been narrated) from Abu Abdullah -asws having said: ‘The one who spends the night in wakefulness regarding the earnings and does not give the eyes its share from the sleep, so his earning, that is Prohibited’.
[20] عِدَّةٌ مِنْ أَصْحَابِنَا عَنْ سَهْلِ بْنِ زِيَادٍ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ الْحَسَنِ بْنِ شَمُّونٍ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ الْأَصَمِّ عَنْ مِسْمَعِ بْنِ عَبْدِ الْمَلِكِ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) قَالَ الصُّنَّاعُ إِذَا سَهِرُوا اللَّيْلَ كُلَّهُ فَهُوَ سُحْتٌ A number of our companions, from Sahl Bin Ziyad, from Muhammad Bin Al Hassan Bin Shamoun, from Abdullah Bin Abdul Rahman Al Asamma, from Misma’a Bin Abdul Malik, (It has been narrated) from Abu Abdullah -asws having said: ‘The manufacturer, when he is awake the whole night, so it is an ill-gotten gain (his manufacturing profits)’.
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