Al Sharh
Chapter 94, 8 verses
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Hilali & Muhsin Khan
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Yusuf Ali
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Pickthall
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Hilali & Muhsin Khan
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)?
Yusuf Ali
Have We not expanded thee thy breast? -
Pickthall
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful. Have We not caused thy bosom to dilate,
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أَلَمْ نَشْرَحْ لَكَ صَدْرَكَ
Hilali & Muhsin Khan
And removed from you your burden.
Yusuf Ali
And removed from thee thy burden
Pickthall
And eased thee of the burden
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وَوَضَعْنَا عَنكَ وِزْرَكَ
Hilali & Muhsin Khan
Which weighed down your back?
Yusuf Ali
The which did gall thy back? -
Pickthall
Which weighed down thy back;
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ٱلَّذِىٓ أَنقَضَ ظَهْرَكَ
Hilali & Muhsin Khan
And have We not raised high your fame?
Yusuf Ali
And raised high the esteem (in which) thou (art held)?
Pickthall
And exalted thy fame ?
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وَرَفَعْنَا لَكَ ذِكْرَكَ
Hilali & Muhsin Khan
Verily, along with every hardship is relief,
Yusuf Ali
So, verily, with every difficulty, there is relief:
Pickthall
But lo! with hardship goeth ease,
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فَإِنَّ مَعَ ٱلْعُسْرِ يُسْرًا
Hilali & Muhsin Khan
Verily, along with every hardship is relief (i.e. there is one hardship with two reliefs, so one hardship cannot overcome two reliefs).
Yusuf Ali
Verily, with every difficulty there is relief.
Pickthall
Lo! with hardship goeth ease;
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إِنَّ مَعَ ٱلْعُسْرِ يُسْرًا
Hilali & Muhsin Khan
So when you have finished (your occupation), devote yourself for Allah's worship.
Yusuf Ali
Therefore, when thou art free (from thine immediate task), still labour hard,
Pickthall
So when thou art relieved, still toil
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فَإِذَا فَرَغْتَ فَٱنصَبْ
Hilali & Muhsin Khan
And to your Lord (Alone) turn (all your) intentions and hopes.
Yusuf Ali
And to thy Lord turn (all) thy attention.
Pickthall
And strive to please thy Lord.
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وَإِلَىٰ رَبِّكَ فَٱرْغَب