And a sign to them is the night...

And a sign to them is the night: We draw forth from it the day, so they are in the darkness [36:37] (an extract).[6] ‘Abu Ja’far-asws (5th Imam) said, regarding the Words of the Exalted: And We Made a barrier to be from their front and a barrier from their back, and We Covered them [36:9], he-asws said: ‘As for their blindness, they could not see the Guidance. Allah-azwj Took out their hearing and their eyesight and their hearts and blinded them from the Guidance.

This was Revealed regarding Abu Jahl Bin Hissham and a number from his household, and that the Prophet-saww was standing during Salat. Abu Jahl had taken a vow that if he were to see him-saww in Salat he would go and stone him-saww. He came and had a stone with him and the Prophet-saww was standing in Salat. He lifted the stone so that he could stone him-saww, but Allah-azwj Froze his hand to his neck, and he could not throw the stone with his hand.

When he returned to his companions, the stone fell down from his hand. Then another man stood up, and he was from among his clan as well and said, ‘I will kill him-saww.’ When he went from them, but when he heard the recitation of Rasool-Allah-saww he was petrified.

If only my people knew [36:26]. He was ‘Makna’a’.