Of sleep at all, and for those who limit that to sleep at night, know that the night is hidden because it is the place of concealment, and that is why He made the night a covering, and the day a testimony because it is the place of appearance and movement, and that is why He made it a sustenance for seeking virtue, meaning seeking sustenance here from His face, so the sought-after virtue is In it there is increase and honor, and it is the increase of virtues. He collects what he does not have as sustenance, so it is curiosity because he collects it for his heir or for someone else. For a person’s sustenance is what he collects, but rather what he is nourished with. Know that the sleeper is undoubtedly in the world of the unseen, and if sleep is at night, then it is unseen in the unseen, so it is. Its ruling is stronger, and sleeping during the day is absent in testimony, so its ruling is weaker. Do you not see it? He made sleep a slumber, for it is rest without a doubt, and at night it is stronger, for it is more immersive than daytime sleep. The unseen is a root, so the night is a root, and testimony is a branch, so the day is a branch, and a sign to them. The night from it We remove the day, for the day is shorn of the night, so the night is what it was. It conceals things and does not reveal the facts of their forms to the eyes. It is similar to ignorance, for ignorance of a thing does not clarify its ruling. Whoever is ignorant of the Sharia in a thing does not know its ruling on it.

[ The sleeper is in his state of sleep and the ignorant is in his state of ignorance ]

And since the sleeper is in his state of sleep and does not know anything of the apparent matters in the world of testimony against people, sleep is pure ignorance except in the case of the one whose eyes sleep.