Part P39
Ninth Word Fourth Point Reminders Of Afternoon Sunset And Night
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The time of 'Asr, afternoon: This is like autumn, and old age, and the time of the Final Prophet (UWBP), known as the Era of Bliss, and recalls the divine acts and favours of the All-Merciful present in them.
The time of Maghrib, sunset: By recalling the departure of many creatures at the end of autumn, and human death, and the destruction of the world at the commencement of the resurrection, this time puts in mind the manifestations of divine glory and sublimity, and rouses man from his slumbers of heedlessness.
The time of 'Isha, nightfall. As for this time, it calls to mind the world of darkness veiling all the objects of the daytime world with a black shroud, and winter hiding the face of the dead earth with its white cerement, and even the remaining works of departed men dying and passing beneath the veil of oblivion, and this world, the arena of examination, being shut up and closed down for ever, and this proclaims the awesome and mighty disposals of the All-Glorious and Compelling Subduer.