He it is Who made for you the night that you may rest therein, and the day giving sight.

(Qur’an, Surah Al-Furqan, 25:47)

For over 1,400 years, these words stood quietly in the Qur’an—simple, poetic, and profound. And now, in the age of laboratories and brain scans, science begins to whisper the same truth through a different tongue.

Researchers today describe the “Mind After Midnight” hypothesis—a finding that our brain, after midnight, changes its very wiring. Logic weakens, impulses sharpen, and emotions tilt toward the dark. Depression, self-harm, and reckless decisions increase in those hours. The body and mind, it turns out, were never meant to stay awake deep into the night.

But the Qur’an told us, long before modern chronobiology existed: “He made the night for you to rest.” (25:47)
It wasn’t merely poetic—it was biological, psychological, spiritual. The night is not just darkness; it is divine design.

Our circadian rhythm, that 24-hour internal clock scientists now measure in neurons and hormones, is nothing but the echo of an ancient truth: the universe itself moves by the decree of the One who “created everything in due proportion.” (Qur’an 54:49) When we resist that divine balance—staying awake in defiance of the night’s serenity—we disturb not only our sleep but the harmony of our soul.

And yet, Islam never rejected inquiry. The Prophet ﷺ said:

“Wisdom is the lost property of the believer. Wherever he finds it, he has a right to it.”
(Tirmidhi, 2687 – hasan)

The believer does not fear science—he embraces it as another verse of God, written not on paper, but in the patterns of creation. Science is the art of reading the cosmos; revelation is the lens that shows where to look.

“The Mind After Midnight: Nocturnal Wakefulness, Behavioral Dysregulation, and Psychopathology”

https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/network-physiology/articles/10.3389/fnetp.2021.830338/full

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When scientists speak of melatonin cycles, the Qur’an calls it sukun—tranquility.
When they describe cognitive misalignment past midnight, revelation warns against wakefulness when the angels descend with peace.
When data shows that nighttime anxiety spikes, the Qur’an teaches us: “Indeed, by the remembrance of Allah do hearts find rest.” (13:28)

To be religious is not to close one’s eyes to the world; it is to open them fully—to see how every atom, every neuron, and every heartbeat glorifies its Creator. The more science discovers, the more the believer smiles—because he has already read the blueprint in divine words.

So, perhaps the “Mind After Midnight” is not merely a scientific finding. It is a gentle reminder—one the Qur’an has sung for centuries—that rest is not laziness, that sleep is worship when done with gratitude, and that balance is sacred.

The night was never meant to be conquered.
It was meant to be respected.