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)?
Have We not expanded for you your breast,
Have We not expanded thee thy breast? -
أَلَمْ نَشْرَحْ لَكَ صَدْرَكَ
Chapter 94, 8 verses
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)?
Have We not expanded for you your breast,
Have We not expanded thee thy breast? -
أَلَمْ نَشْرَحْ لَكَ صَدْرَكَ
And removed from you your burden.
And taken off from you your burden,
And removed from thee thy burden
وَوَضَعْنَا عَنكَ وِزْرَكَ
Which weighed down your back?
Which pressed heavily upon your back,
The which did gall thy back? -
ٱلَّذِىٓ أَنقَضَ ظَهْرَكَ
And have We not raised high your fame?
And exalted for you your esteem?
And raised high the esteem (in which) thou (art held)?
وَرَفَعْنَا لَكَ ذِكْرَكَ
Verily, along with every hardship is relief,
Surely with difficulty is ease.
So, verily, with every difficulty, there is relief:
فَإِنَّ مَعَ ٱلْعُسْرِ يُسْرًا
Verily, along with every hardship is relief (i.e. there is one hardship with two reliefs, so one hardship cannot overcome two reliefs).
With difficulty is surely ease.
Verily, with every difficulty there is relief.
إِنَّ مَعَ ٱلْعُسْرِ يُسْرًا
So when you have finished (your occupation), devote yourself for Allah's worship.
So when you are free, nominate.
Therefore, when thou art free (from thine immediate task), still labour hard,
فَإِذَا فَرَغْتَ فَٱنصَبْ
And to your Lord (Alone) turn (all your) intentions and hopes.
And make your Lord your exclusive object.
And to thy Lord turn (all) thy attention.
وَإِلَىٰ رَبِّكَ فَٱرْغَب