LessonsDivine Will, Self-Sufficiency, Life, and ResurrectionQuiz

Qayyūm means the One who upholds and sustains. The accompanying lā yanām expressly negates sleep.

A sleeping person remains alive, but during sleep cannot attend to oneself or to others as one does while awake.

Allah sustains everything. Freedom from sleep accompanies the complete sustaining power described here.

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Why “does not sleep” follows Qayyūm

Divine Will, Self-Sufficiency, Life, and Resurrection

Qayyūm means the One who upholds and sustains. The accompanying lā yanām expressly negates sleep.

A sleeping person remains alive, but during sleep cannot attend to oneself or to others as one does while awake.

Allah sustains everything. Freedom from sleep accompanies the complete sustaining power described here.