Al-Falaq Verse 3

and from the evil of the night when it grows dark,

from the harm of night’s darkness when it spreads around,

from the evil of darkness when it gathers,

the harm in the night when darkness gathers,

And from the evil of the darken when it cometh,

From the mischief of Darkness as it overspreads;

from the evil of night's darkness when it spreads around;

And the evil of evening darkness when it overspreads,

“And from the evil of the matter that darkens when it sets.”

and from the evil of the dark night when it falls,

"And from the evil of the darkness (of night) when it overspreads,

`And from the evil (that usually prevails in the times) of darkness when it overspreads (at night),

And from bad/evil/harm (of an) intense dark night/moon, when/if (it) penetrated through body pores/ spread/approached .

“And from the evil of the matter that darkens when it sets.”

And from the evil of the night when it cometh on;

"And from the evil of the darkening (night) as it comes with its darkness; (or the moon as it sets or goes away).

And from the evil of intense darkness, when it comes,

And from the evil of the utterly dark night when it comes,

From the evil of the darkness when it is intense,

I seek His protection against the evil of the invading darkness,

from the evil of the darkness when it gathers

"And from the evil of the Ghasiq when Waqab,"

from the evil of darkness as it descends,

And from the evil of the darkness as it gathers.

and from the evil of darkness when it gathers, that is, [from] night when it becomes dark and the moon when it is absent,

And from the evil of the Ghasiq when Waqab,

Mujahid said,

- "Ghasiq is the night, and

- `when it Waqab' refers to the setting of the sun."

Al-Bukhari mentioned this from him.

Ibn Abi Najih also reported a similar narration from him (Mujahid).

The same was said by Ibn Abbas, Muhammad bin Ka`b Al-Qurazi, Ad-Dahhak, Khusayf, Al-Hasan and Qatadah. They said,

"Verily, it is the night when it advances with its darkness."

Az-Zuhri said,
وَمِن شَرِّ غَاسِقٍ إِذَا وَقَبَ


"This means the sun when it sets."

Abu Al-Muhazzim reported that Abu Hurayrah said,
وَمِن شَرِّ غَاسِقٍ إِذَا وَقَبَ


"This means the star."

Ibn Zayd said, "The Arabs used to say,

`Al-Ghasiq is the declination (of the position) of the heavenly body known as Pleiades. The number of those who were ill and stricken with plague would increase whenever it would decline, and their number would lessen whenever it rose."'

Ibn Jarir said,

"Others have said that it is the moon."

The support for the people who hold this position (that it means the moon) is a narration that Imam Ahmad recorded from Al-Harith bin Abi Salamah. He said that A'ishah said,

"The Messenger of Allah took me by my hand and showed me the moon when it rose, and he said,
تَعَوَّذِي بِاللهِ مِنْ شَرِّ هَذَا الْغَاسِقِ إِذَا وَقَبَ
Seek refuge with Allah from the evil of this Ghasiq when it becomes dark."

At-Tirmidhi and An-Nasa'i both recorded this Hadith in their Books of Tafsir in their Sunans.

Allah said,

وَمِن شَرِّ النَّفَّاثَاتِ فِي الْعُقَدِ