Have We not expanded for you your breast,
In the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. Have We not opened your breast for you (O Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم)?
Alam nashrah laka sadraka
أَلَمْ نَشْرَحْ لَكَ صَدْرَكَ
Chapter 94, 8 verses
Have We not expanded for you your breast,
In the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. Have We not opened your breast for you (O Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم)?
Alam nashrah laka sadraka
أَلَمْ نَشْرَحْ لَكَ صَدْرَكَ
And taken off from you your burden,
And removed from you your burden.
WawadaAAna AAanka wizraka
وَوَضَعْنَا عَنكَ وِزْرَكَ
Which pressed heavily upon your back,
Which weighed down your back?
Allathee anqada thahraka
ٱلَّذِىٓ أَنقَضَ ظَهْرَكَ
And exalted for you your esteem?
And have We not raised high your fame?
WarafaAAna laka thikraka
وَرَفَعْنَا لَكَ ذِكْرَكَ
Surely with difficulty is ease.
Verily, along with every hardship is relief,
Fainna maAAa alAAusri yusran
فَإِنَّ مَعَ ٱلْعُسْرِ يُسْرًا
With difficulty is surely ease.
Verily, along with every hardship is relief (i.e. there is one hardship with two reliefs, so one hardship cannot overcome two reliefs).
Inna maAAa alAAusri yusran
إِنَّ مَعَ ٱلْعُسْرِ يُسْرًا
So when you are free, nominate.
So when you have finished (your occupation), devote yourself for Allah's worship.
Faitha faraghta fainsab
فَإِذَا فَرَغْتَ فَٱنصَبْ
And make your Lord your exclusive object.
And to your Lord (Alone) turn (all your) intentions and hopes.
Waila rabbika fairghab
وَإِلَىٰ رَبِّكَ فَٱرْغَب