‘Aisha (may Allah be pleased with her) was asked: Tell us the most amazing thing you saw from the Messenger of Allah (saws)! She remained silent and then said: “When it was one of the nights, he (saws) said:

“O Aisha, leave me to worship my Lord tonight.”

I said: By Allah, I love your closeness and what makes you happy. She said: “Then he purified himself (performed ablution) and went to pray, he wept and cried so much that his beard was wet. She said: Then he kept weeping until the ground became wet. When Bilal came to call to prayer and saw him crying, he said to him (saws):

“O Messenger of Allah, why are you crying, and Allah has forgiven you for what preceded and what is late? ” He (saws) said:

“Should I not be a grateful slave, for a verse was revealed to me tonight, and woe to the one who recites it and does not think about it:

إِنَّ فِي خَلْقِ السَّمَاوَاتِ وَالأَرْضِ وَاخْتِلاَفِ اللَّيْلِ وَالنَّهَارِ لآيَاتٍ لِّأُوْلِي الألْبَابِ

{Indeed, in the creation of the heavens and the earth and the alternation of the night and the day are signs for those of understanding.}”[1]

So we have to calmly and deliberately reflect on it, and meditate on it as the Prophet (saws) did.

وَاخْتِلاَفِ اللَّيْلِ وَالنَّهَارِ {and the alternation of the night and the day}:

That is, between the succession of night and day, darkness in the night and light in the day. If a person looks at Allah’s (swt) creation and contemplates the movement of the sun and moon and the succession of night and day and looks at what is in the heavens and what is on the earth, then his mind must point to the Creator of this universe. A person cannot mentally believe that an event takes place in the universe without an actor. We are talking now not only from a religious point of view, but from a mental point of view as well. Suppose you were in the desert and you had no water or food, and while you were sitting, there was a table with delicious food and water in front of you, so the first thing you think of is who offered you this table! And where did it come from? How about a person who sees in the morning and evening the sun, moon, air, water, clouds and galaxies and sees all these verses that indicate the existence of Allah (swt) and then says that they happened by chance!!!

Another example, if you are in a school where there is a group of students and the teacher found a wallet with money in it, he took it and asked the students who is this wallet for? So a student got up and said: “This is mine”, then it has become his property until someone else claims that it is his. This is in the simple human affairs, while you see the heavens and the earth and you see what has been prepared for you of air, water, land, plants, animals and all the elements of life and you see the sun and the moon and the succession of night and day, then you say after that there is no one who created it!! This saying is not rationally correct, for the upright mind says: There must be a Creator for all of this, and as long as no one disputes with him over the kingship, then it is Allah’s (swt) creation. So this is from a mental point of view, and every debate with atheists about the existence of Allah (swt) is based on mental aspect. However, when we say that there is no contradiction between reason and transmission, because transmission, which is the Holly Qur’an and what came from the Prophet (saws), only came with knowledge, so the first verses that were revealed:

ٱقۡرَأۡ وَرَبُّكَ ٱلۡأَكۡرَمُ (3) ٱلَّذِي عَلَّمَ بِٱلۡقَلَمِ (4) عَلَّمَ ٱلۡإِنسَٰنَ مَا لَمۡ يَعۡلَمۡ

{Recite, and your Lord is the most Generous (3) Who taught by the pen (4) Taught man that which he knew not.} (Al-Qalam: 3-5)

And Allah (swt) did not command you to impose faith by force on people. Rather, He (swt) asked you to argue intellectually and scientifically. He (swt) said:

إِنَّ فِي خَلْقِ السَّمَاوَاتِ وَالأَرْضِ وَاخْتِلاَفِ اللَّيْلِ وَالنَّهَارِ لآيَاتٍ لِّأُوْلِي الألْبَابِ {Indeed, in the creation of the heavens and the earth and the alternation of the night and the day are signs for those of understanding}: The more a person increases in knowledge, the more his faith increases, because he reaches the absolute truth, which is that Allah is the Creator. That is why the Prophet said:

“..woe to the one who recites it and does not think about it..”

[1] Sahih Ibn Hayan: Chapter of Hearts soothing, Section of Repentance, Hadith No. 620.