„Nawf bin Fizala Bakali, the famous scholar of the early Islamic days says that one night he was with Imam Ali. In the middle of the night, Imam Ali got up from his bed, looked for sometime at the stars and inquired of Nawf whether he was awake. Nawf said: “I got from my bed replying, “Yes, Amirul Mo’minin (Commander of the Faithful)! I am awake.”“

— Ali

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„When Imam Ali was asked about Faith in Religion, he replied that the structure of faith is supported by four pillars endurance, conviction, justice and jihad.“
— Ali
„He rolled in his bed, twisting the sheets, grappling with a problem years too big for him, awake in the night like a single sentinel on picket. And sometime after midnight, he slept, too, and then only the wind was awake, prying at the hotel and hooting in its gables under the bright gimlet gaze of the stars.“
— Stephen King
„Nawf! Prophet David (Daud) once got up at such an hour in the night and said this was the hour when prayers of everyone who prayed were accepted except of those who forcibly collected revenues or who were scandal- mongers or were persons in the police force of a despotic regime or were musicians.“
— Ali
„A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do.“
— Bob Dylan
„He gave up and went back to loafing, found that he could sleep all right in the afternoons but that the practice kept him awake at night.“
— Robert A. Heinlein
„She got me workin' day and night,And I've been workin'From sun-up to midnight.“
— Michael Jackson
„"Yes," I answered you last night;"No," this morning, Sir, I say.Colours seen by candlelight,Will not look the same by day.“
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning