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