و قوله...

و قوله: عَلِمَ أَنْ لَنْ تُحْصُوهُ و كان الرجل يقوم و لا يدري متى ينتصف الليل، و متى يكون الثلثان، و كان الرجل يقوم حتى يصبح مخافة أن لا يحفظه And His -azwj Words: He Knows that You will never compute it – and the man used to rise (to pray Salat) and he would not know when it was the middle of the night, and when it was the third of it, and the man used to stand (praying Salat) until the morning, fearing that he may not preserve it.

He -azwj is Saying: ‘When it is the half and the third, has been Abrogated by this Verse: therefore recite from the Quran what is easy for you , and know that it never came to the Prophet -saww at all except that he -as stands alone in the night Salat, and there has not come a Prophet -as at all except that he -as stood to pray Salat in the first part of the night’’.

[35] في (نهج البيان) للشيباني، قال: روي عن أبي جعفر و أبي عبد الله (عليهما السلام): «أن السبب في نزول هذه السورة أن النبي (صلى الله عليه و آله) كان يقوم هو و أصحابه الليل كله للصلاة حتى تورمت أقدامهم من كثرة قيامهم، فشق ذلك عليه و عليهم، فنزلت السورة بالتخفيف عنه و عنهم في قوله تعالى: وَ اللَّهُ يُقَدِّرُ اللَّيْلَ وَ النَّهارَ عَلِمَ أَنْ لَنْ تُحْصُوهُ أي لن تطيقوه In Nahj Al-Bayaan of Al-Shaybani, said: ‘It has been reported from Abu Ja’far -asws and Abu Abdullah -asws that: ‘The reason for the Revelation of this Chapter is that the Prophet -saww used to stand with his -saww companions all night for the Salat to the extent that their feet swelled up due to the frequency of their standing, and that was difficult for him -saww and for them.