Ninth Word Fifth Point Night Prayer And The Transformations Of The Universe

At the time of 'Isha at nightfall, the last traces of the day remaining on the horizon disappear and the world of night enfolds the universe. As the All-Powerful and Glorious One, " مُقَلِّبُ الَّيْلِ وَ النَّهَارِ The Changer of Night and Day" (See, 24:44), turns the white page of day into the black page of night through the mighty disposals of His dominicality, it recalls the divine activities of that All-Wise One of Perfection, " مُسَخِّرُ الشَّمْسِ وَ الْقَمَرِ The Subduer of the Sun and the Moon" (See, 13:2), turning the green-adorned page of summer into the frigid white page of winter. And with the remaining works of the departed being erased from this world with the passing of time, it recalls the divine acts of "The Creator and Life and Death" (See, 67:2) in their passage to another, quite different world. It is a time that calls to mind the disposals of "The Creator of the Heavens and the Earth 's" awesomeness and the manifestations of His beauty in the utter destruction of this narrow, fleeting, and lowly world, the terrible death-agonies of its decease, and in the unfolding of the broad, eternal, and majestic world of the hereafter. And the universe's Owner, its True Disposer, its True Beloved and Object of Worship can only be the One Who with ease turns night into day, winter into spring, and this world into the hereafter like the pages of a book; Who writes and erases them, and changes them.