The meaning of the creation’s turning to their Creator in night prayer, asking Him to bestow favor upon them by sending the rain by which the nourishment of bodies grows—its inward meaning is the Gnostic’s plea during the occultation of the gates of disclosure and knowledge and the prevalence of the authority of ignorance. Through night prayer, he seeks rescue from the dark world and the revival of his soul with Holy Knowledge. Toward that, the indication occurred in His (the Exalted) saying, narrating about Noah: {So I said, "Ask forgiveness of your Lord. Indeed, He is ever a Perpetual Forgiver. He will send [rain from] the sky upon you in abundance"} (Nuh 10-11).

Meaning: Repent to your Creator, He will relent toward you [and] send you the sky—which is the reality of the Message—and he is the Person of the Sky with the knowledge whose pleasure is never interrupted and whose duration never ends.

The eleventh indication regarding the esoteric meaning of the funeral prayer

The Eleventh Indication: On the Inward of the Funeral Prayer [Al-Salat 'ala al-Mayyit]

Know—may Allah teach you goodness and revive you from the death of nature—that death, according to the outward of the story in the outward of the Book, falls upon several meanings that are corresponding and varying.