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)?
Did We not expand for you, [O Muhammad], your 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)?
Did We not expand for you, [O Muhammad], your breast?
أَلَمْ نَشْرَحْ لَكَ صَدْرَكَ
And removed from you your burden.
And We removed from you your burden
وَوَضَعْنَا عَنكَ وِزْرَكَ
Which weighed down your back?
Which had weighed upon your back
ٱلَّذِىٓ أَنقَضَ ظَهْرَكَ
And have We not raised high your fame?
And raised high for you your repute.
وَرَفَعْنَا لَكَ ذِكْرَكَ
Verily, along with every hardship is relief,
For indeed, with hardship [will be] ease.
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).
Indeed, with hardship [will be] ease.
إِنَّ مَعَ ٱلْعُسْرِ يُسْرًا
So when you have finished (your occupation), devote yourself for Allah's worship.
So when you have finished [your duties], then stand up [for worship].
فَإِذَا فَرَغْتَ فَٱنصَبْ
And to your Lord (Alone) turn (all your) intentions and hopes.
And to your Lord direct [your] longing.
وَإِلَىٰ رَبِّكَ فَٱرْغَب