اللَّهُمَّ فَصَلِّ عَلَى مُحَمَّدٍ وَ آلِهِ ...

1- Praise belongs to God, who created night and day through His strength, 2- set them apart through His power, 3- and appointed for each a determined limit and a drawn-out period. 4- He makes each of the two enter into its companion, and makes its companion enter into it, as an ordainment from Him for His servants in that through which He feeds them and with which He makes them grow.

5- He created for them the night, that they might rest in it ^1 from tiring movements and wearisome exertions and He made it a garment for them that they might be clothed in its ease and its sleep, that it might be for them refreshment and strength, that they might reach therein pleasure and passion.

6- He created for them the daytime, giving sight, that they might seek within it of His bounty , ^2 find the means to His provision, and roam freely in His earth, searching for that through which to attain the immediate in their life in this world and to achieve the deferred in their life to come.

7-Through all of this He sets right their situation, tries their records,[^3] and watches their state in the times for obeying Him, the waystations of His obligations, and the places of His ordinances, that He may repay those who do evil with what they have done and repay those who do good with goodness .

^4 8- O God, to Thee belongs praise for the sky Thou hast split into dawn for us,[^5] giving us to enjoy thereby the brightness of daytime, showing us sought-after nourishments, and protecting us from the striking of blights. 9- In the morning we and all things, every one, rise for Thee, the heaven and the earth and what Thou hast scattered in each, the still and the moving, the resident and the journeying, what towers up in the air and what hides under the ground.

10- We rise in the morning in Thy grasp: Thy kingdom and authority contain us and Thy will embraces us. We move about by Thy command and turn this way and that through Thy governing.