Transliteration:( Inna sa'yakum lashattaa )
3. "O Abu Bakr Siddique and Umayyah bin Khalf. Or, O reciters of the Quran. Or O mankind." The first meaning is more suitable because these verses have been revealed as mercy on Hazrat Abu Bakr and as a reprimand for Umayyah bin Khalf.
From this verse emerge a few issues:
1. Hazrat Abu Bakr Siddique is a believer of truth personified, a noble Companion and man of outstanding piety, because Allah almighty has declared him different to the infidels.
2. A person should not remain idle but continue to make an effort. He should let the machine of the body be rendered ineffective.
3. All the people are not the same: Among them are believers and infidels, pious and transgressors. Religious people are of differing quality; they differ in deeds and efforts. Anyone who tries to group them as one is in direct confrontation with nature. Differences had always existed among them and will always continue to exist.
4. The effort of Hazrat Abu Bakr Siddique is totally different to that of Umayyah bin Khalaf. The effort based on intelligence is different to that of the spiritual effort. Everything is endeavoring to return to its original. The abode of the baser self (Nafs-e-Ammarah) is fire, while that of the spirit is the garden of Paradise. It should be remembered that man does countless deeds, which are physical and monetary, but these are of three types: purely good, purely evil, partially good and, partially evil. If the deed is good then the intention of the doer should be good as well, his belief should be good then only will the action or deed turn out to be good. An example of this is the action of Hazrat Abu Bakr Siddique to free Hazrat Bilal, regarding whom these verses are revealed.
The tafsir of Surah Al-Lail verse 4 by Ibn Kathir is unavailable here.
Please refer to Surah Al-Lail ayat 1 which provides the complete commentary from verse 1 through 11.
(92:4) surely your strivings are divergent.[1]
1. This is that for which an oath has been sworn by the night and the day, and the creation of the male and the female. It means to say: Just as the night and the day, and the male and the female, are different from each other, and their effects and results are mutually contradictory, so are the aims and objects for which men are endeavoring and struggling; different in their nature and contradictory with regard to their results. In the following verses, it has been told that all these divided endeavors are divided into two main kinds.
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