‘Umar said that he heard Allah's Messenger ﷺ say, “Four rak'as before the noon prayer after the sun has passed tne meridian are reckoned equivalent to a similar number at the dawn prayer.1 There is nothing which does not glorify Allah at that hour.” Then he recited, “Their shadows turn round from the right and the left prostrating themselves to Allah, and they are abject.”2 1. This is the literal translation, but commentators usually explain it as referring to night prayers at some time between midnight and dawn. 2. Al-Qur’an; 16