Transliteration:( Wa minal laili fasjud lahoo wa sabbihhu lailan taweelaa )
39. Be punctual with Salaatul Maghrib and Esha. In these two sentences all the five Salaah re included.
40. This means besides the obligatory prayers perform the optional prayers as well. Tahajjud Salaah is included in the optional prayers
(Nawafil)as well. Or, besides the Salaah, do remember Allah Almighty in other ways. In any case this command is not for the obligatory duties.
The tafsir of Surah Al-Insan verse 26 by Ibn Kathir is unavailable here.
Please refer to Surah Insan ayat 23 which provides the complete commentary from verse 23 through 31.
(76:26) and prostrate yourself before Him at night, and extol His Glory during the long watches of the night.[30]
30. The rule followed in the Quran is that wherever the Muslims have been exhorted to show patience against the disbelievers, immediately after it they have been commanded to remember Allah much and to observe the Prayer, which automatically implies that the power needed to meet the resistance of the enemies of the truth in the way of true faith can be obtained only by this means. To remember Allah morning and evening may also imply remembering Allah always but when the command to remember Allah at specific times is given, it implies the salat (Prayer). In this verse, bukrah means the morning and asil the time from the sun’s decline till sunset, which obviously covers the Zuhr and the Asr times. Night starts after sunset; therefore, the command “to prostrate yourself in the night” would apply to both the Maghrib and the Isha Prayers. Then, the command “to glorify Allah in the long hours of night”, clearly points to the time of the Tahajjud Prayer. see (Surah Bani Israil, ayat 78-79) note 92-97, (Surah Al-Muzzammil, ayat 1) note 2. This also shows that these have been the Prayer times in Islam from the beginning. However, the command making the Prayer obligatory five times a day with fixed times and number of rakahs was given on the occasion of miraj (ascension).
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