O you who is wrapped in his clothes [meaning the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم].

Pray the night except for a little of it.

Pray half of it if you wish, or pray a little less than half such that you pray a third.

Or add to it until you reach two-thirds. And make the Quran clear when you recite it, and be unhurried in its recitation.

O Messenger, indeed, we will send down the Quran to you. It is a heavy word due to what it contains of obligations, limits, rulings, manners, and otherwise.

Indeed, the hours of the night are when the heart is more in line with the recitation and more correct in speech.

Indeed, during the day, you manage your tasks, so you get busied with them from the recitation of the Quran. So, pray at night.

And remember Allah with the various types of remembrances. And dedicate yourself to Him (may He be Exalted) by making worship exclusive to Him.

Lord of the East and Lord of the West. There is no rightful object of worship except Him, so take Him as a trustee you rely on in all your affairs.

And be patient with what the rejectors say of mockery and profanity. And desert them without causing any harm.

And do not be concerned with the matter of the rejectors, the people of indulgence in the pleasures of the worldly life. Leave them and me, and wait for them for a little while until their end comes.

Indeed, in the Hereafter, we have heavy restraints and an ignited fire.

And food that throats choke on due to its bitterness and painful torment, in addition to what has preceded.

That torment will occur to the rejectors on the day the Earth and mountains will quake, and the mountains will be as fluid, dispersed sand due to the severity of its horrors.

Indeed, we sent to you a messenger who is a witness of your deeds on the Day of Resurrection, just as we sent a messenger to Pharoah, who was Moses, peace be upon him.

Pharoah disobeyed the messenger sent to him from his Lord, so we punished him with a severe punishment in the worldly life with drowning and in the Afterlife with the torment of the Fire. So do not disobey your messenger lest what befell him should befall you.

So how will you protect yourselves, if you reject Allah and deny His Messenger, from a long, severe day that will make the heads of young children white because of the severity of its horror and its length?

[When] the sky [is] fractured from its horrors. Allah's promise is inevitable and inescapable.

Indeed, this admonition, which clarifies what horror and adversity are on the Day of Resurrection, is a reminder. The believers benefit from it. So whoever wishes to take a road that leads to his Lord takes it.

Indeed, your Lord, O Messenger, knows that you sometimes pray less than two-thirds of the night, sometimes half of it, and sometimes a third of it, and a group of the believers stand with you [in prayer]. And Allah determines the night and the day and enumerates their hours. He (may He be Exalted) knew that you cannot enumerate and match its hours, so it burdens you to stand most of it to ensure what is requested [is done]. So because of that, He has turned to you in repentance, so pray from the night that which is made easy. Allah knew that there would be among you, O believers, ill ones exhausted by disease, others traveling seeking Allah's provision, and others fighting the disbelievers to pursue the contentment of Allah and to make the word of Allah most superior. Standing in prayer burdens these [mentioned], so pray from the night what is made easy for you. And come to the obligatory prayer in the most complete manner, give Zakat (obligatory alms) of your wealth, and spend from your wealth in the path of Allah. And what you put forth for yourselves of good, you will find with Allah on the Day of Resurrection better and greater in reward. And seek forgiveness from Allah. Indeed, Allah is forgiving to those who repent from His slaves, merciful to them.