40. Even and Odd - Surah Fajr (89): Verses 1-4

وَالْفَجْرِ {1} وَلَيَالٍ عَشْرٍ {2} وَالشَّفْعِ وَالْوَتْرِ {3} وَاللَّيْلِ إِذَا يَسْرِ {4}

“I swear by the daybreak, And the ten nights, And the even and the odd, And the night when it departs.”

Imam Sadiq (a.s.) says, daybreak refers to Hazrat Qaim (a.t.f.s.), the ten nights refers to ten Imams from Imam Hasan (a.s.) to Imam Hasan (a.s.) the even refers to Ameerul Momineen (a.s.) and Janabe Fatima Zahra (s.a.), the odd refers to Allah, the one who has no partner…¹

Footnotes

1. Al-Burhan fi Tafsir al-Qur’an, Vol. 5, Page 650 ↩