وَهُوَ ٱلَّذِى يَتَوَفَّىٰكُم بِٱلَّيْلِ وَيَعْلَمُ مَا جَرَحْتُم بِٱلنَّهَارِ ثُمَّ يَبْعَثُكُمْ فِيهِ لِيُقْضَىٰٓ أَجَلٌ مُّسَمًّى
"It is He who takes your souls by night, and knows what you have earned by day, and then raises you up in it, so that a determined term may be completed."
This verse is in the same field as al-Zumar 39/42 (Allāhu yatawaffa'l-anfusa ḥīna mawtihā wa'llatī lam tamut fī manāmihā) and it was treated in detail there: the binding of sleep and death to the same verb, and the pair yumsiku / yursilu. I rely on that treatment.
| Place | Verbs |
|---|---|
| al-Zumar 39/42 | Yatawaffā → yumsiku / yursilu — to hold and to release |
| al-Anʿām 6/60 | Yatawaffā → yabʿathukum — to raise up |
Al-Anʿām names the waking of the day with the verb baʿth (raising up). I record this as an observation: the same fact is named with two separate verbs in two sūras, and both belong to the language of the hereafter.
مَا جَرَحْتُم بِٱلنَّهَارِ — the root ج-ر-ح was analysed at al-Jāthiya 45/21 (to wound; and to earn — jawāriḥ: both birds of prey and the limbs). I do not repeat it here.