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Surah Ali 'Imran — 3:27

تُولِجُ ٱلَّيْلَ فِى ٱلنَّهَارِ وَتُولِجُ ٱلنَّهَارَ فِى ٱلَّيْلِ ۖ وَتُخْرِجُ ٱلْحَىَّ مِنَ ٱلْمَيِّتِ وَتُخْرِجُ ٱلْمَيِّتَ مِنَ ٱلْحَىِّ ۖ وَتَرْزُقُ مَن تَشَآءُ بِغَيْرِ حِسَابٍ

Toolijul laila fin nahaari wa toolijun nahaara fil laili wa tukhrijul haiya minalmaiyiti wa tukhrijulo maiyita minal haiyi wa tarzuqu man tashaaa'u bighari hisab

Ty wprowadzasz noc w dzień i Ty wprowadzasz dzień w noc. Ty wyprowadzasz żyjące z martwego i Ty wyprowadzasz martwe z żyjącego. Ty dajesz zaopatrzenie, komu chcesz; bez rachunku!"

You merge the night into the day and merge the day into the night. You bring the living out of the dead and the dead out of the living. And you provide for whom you will, without measure.

Reflection

The night-into-day formula appears five times, and only here does it address God directly as "you"; the other four state it about him. Placement explains the shift — this line finishes a prayer that opened one verse earlier, where sovereignty is given and taken away. Four exact exchanges are named, and then provision arrives with no measure attached to it at all.

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