And when this verse included the night and the day, He stated them explicitly as evidence of the truth and a manifestation of the blessing upon creation: "And He is" meaning your Lord alone, "the One who made". And since what has passed in the shadow is a delicate matter, He specified it for its people. The matter of the night and the day is apparent to everyone, so He said: "For you is the night" meaning that which completes the extension of the shadow, "a garment" meaning a cover for things from the eyes just as clothing covers. "And sleep is a rest" meaning sleep and stillness and comfort, an expression of it being a smaller death that conceals what was of sensation, cutting off what was of feeling and movement, an evidence for the people of insight regarding death; Al-Baghawi and others said: The root of rest is cutting.

And in His making, glorified and exalted is He, likewise, there are countless religious and worldly benefits. And likewise His saying: "And He made the day a resurrection" meaning life and movement and turning about by what He created in it of the alertness that reminds of resurrection, preparing for movement, by restoring what sleep had deprived from all the senses; it is narrated that Luqman said to his son: Just as you sleep and are awakened, so too you will die and be resurrected. Thus, the verse is from the interplay: mentioning rest first as evidence for movement second, and resurrection second as evidence for stillness and quiet first.