Alam nashrah laka sadraka
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)?
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم ألم نشرح لك صدرك
Have We not expanded thee thy breast? -
Chapter 94, 8 verses
Alam nashrah laka sadraka
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)?
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم ألم نشرح لك صدرك
Have We not expanded thee thy breast? -
WawadaAAna AAanka wizraka
And removed from you your burden.
ووضعنا عنك وزرك
And removed from thee thy burden
Allathee anqada thahraka
Which weighed down your back?
الذي أنقض ظهرك
The which did gall thy back? -
WarafaAAna laka thikraka
And have We not raised high your fame?
ورفعنا لك ذكرك
And raised high the esteem (in which) thou (art held)?
Fainna maAAa alAAusri yusran
Verily, along with every hardship is relief,
فإن مع العسر يسرا
So, verily, with every difficulty, there is relief:
Inna maAAa alAAusri yusran
Verily, along with every hardship is relief (i.e. there is one hardship with two reliefs, so one hardship cannot overcome two reliefs).
إن مع العسر يسرا
Verily, with every difficulty there is relief.
Faitha faraghta fainsab
So when you have finished (your occupation), devote yourself for Allah's worship.
فإذا فرغت فانصب
Therefore, when thou art free (from thine immediate task), still labour hard,
Waila rabbika fairghab
And to your Lord (Alone) turn (all your) intentions and hopes.
وإلى ربك فارغب
And to thy Lord turn (all) thy attention.