As-Sajda (The Prostration)

16. “Their sides draw away from (their) beds, they call upon their Lord in fear and in hope, and they spend (in charity) out of the sustenance that We have bestowed on them.”

Getting up in midnight and separating from one’s bed is one of other signs of the believers. Therefore, this verse says:

“Their sides draw away from (their) beds…”

They, get up in midnight and begin uttering invocation in the presence of Allah.

Yes, when the eyes of the negligent people are asleep, they awaken and spend a part of night in praying and supplicating.

At that time when the ordinary programs are suspended, mental occupations reach to the lowest point, quietness and quietude dominate everywhere, the danger of polluting worship to hypocrisy can exist less than other times, and, shortly speaking, the conditions of heart’s attention is available, they go to Allah with their whole entity and they tell Him what they have in mind.

They are alive with His remembrance, and they keep the container of their hearts full of His love.

Then, the Qur’an says:

“…they call upon their Lord in fear and in hope…”

Yes, their other qualities are ‘fear’ and hope’.

They neither feel security from the punishment of Allah, nor are they disappointed from His Mercy. The balance of this fear and hope, which is the warrant of their perfection and progression in the path of Allah, is always found in them, because when fear overcomes, hope in a man will fall in hopelessness and weakness.

The increase of hope and desire draws man toward pride and negligence, and these two are both the enemies of man’s developing movement alongside his way towards Allah.

The last and the eighth quality of theirs is donation.

The verse says:

“…and they spend (in charity) out of the sustenance that We have bestowed on them.”

They not only spend out of their own wealth for the needy ones, but also bestow their knowledge, power, correct judgment, experience, and good thoughts on those people who are in need of them.

They are as a centre of goodness and blessing, and they work as a flowing spring of benedictions from which the thirsty men can drink and remove their own indigence as much as they can afford.

Yes, their qualities are known as a collection of: firm belief, strong faith, and ardent love to Allah, worship and obedience, struggle and movement, helping the servants of Allah in all its dimensions.