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The patient, in obedience and against disobedience (al-sābirīna, 'the patient', is an adjectival qualification [of alladhīna, 'those']) truthful, in their faith, obedient, compliant before Allahu ta’ālā, expenders, of charity, imploring Allah’s pardon, by saying, 'Rabb, forgive us' at daybreak, in the last part of the night, singled out here for mention because it is the time of unawareness and of the joy of sleep.