Night and Day
idea · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
Day · Night · al-layl wa-al-nahār · night and day
in the texts
Risālah fī ʻilm al-akhlāq
The succession of days, treated not as a setting but as an agent working upon a man whether he works or not.
Night and day work upon you, so work in them.
Atharvaveda (Paippalāda)
Night and Day, personified and invoked as protectors from demons that prowl at those times.
Those yātudhānas who fly about and prowl by day and by night — may Night protect me from them;