يَا أَيُّهَا الْمُزَّمِّلُ ۝ قُمِ اللَّيْلَ إِلَّا قَلِيلًا ۝ نِّصْفَهُ أَوِ انقُصْ مِنْهُ قَلِيلًا ۝ أَوْ زِدْ عَلَيْهِ وَرَتِّلِ الْقُرْآنَ تَرْتِيلًا

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"O you who wraps himself [in clothing], arise [to pray] the night, except for a little—half of it, or subtract from it a little, or add to it, and recite the Quran with measured recitation."

اے کپڑے میں لپٹنے والے! رات کو قیام کرو مگر تھوڑا سا (کم)، آدھی رات یا اس سے تھوڑا کم، یا اس سے زیادہ، اور قرآن کو ٹھہر ٹھہر کر پڑھو۔

Explanation

Literally ‘recite the Quran in slow, measured rhythmic tones’. This means ‘recite, paying full attention to the import of the content’. When recited like this, a two-way process between Quran and its reciter comes into play. For him, the Quran is an address or speech by God and his heart starts answering this address at every verse. In the Quran where there is any mention of God’s majesty, the reciter’s entire existence is strongly affected by the realisation of His greatness. When God’s blessings are enumerated in the Quran, the reciter’s heart overflows with gratitude; when God’s retribution is described in the Quran, the reciter trembles on reading it; when an order is laid down in the Quran, the feeling becomes intensified in the reciter that he should become the obedient subject of his Lord by carrying out that order

— Source: Tazkirul Quran (Maulana Wahiduddin Khan) via Quran.com (73:1)