Did We not expand for you, [O Muhammad], your breast?
Alam nashrah laka sadraka
بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَٰنِ الرَّحِيمِ أَلَمْ نَشْرَحْ لَكَ صَدْرَكَ
Have We not expanded thee thy breast? -
Chapter 94, 8 verses
Did We not expand for you, [O Muhammad], your breast?
Alam nashrah laka sadraka
بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَٰنِ الرَّحِيمِ أَلَمْ نَشْرَحْ لَكَ صَدْرَكَ
Have We not expanded thee thy breast? -
And We removed from you your burden
WawadaAAna AAanka wizraka
وَوَضَعْنَا عَنكَ وِزْرَكَ
And removed from thee thy burden
Which had weighed upon your back
Allathee anqada thahraka
الَّذِي أَنقَضَ ظَهْرَكَ
The which did gall thy back? -
And raised high for you your repute.
WarafaAAna laka thikraka
وَرَفَعْنَا لَكَ ذِكْرَكَ
And raised high the esteem (in which) thou (art held)?
For indeed, with hardship [will be] ease.
Fainna maAAa alAAusri yusran
فَإِنَّ مَعَ الْعُسْرِ يُسْرًا
So, verily, with every difficulty, there is relief:
Indeed, with hardship [will be] ease.
Inna maAAa alAAusri yusran
إِنَّ مَعَ الْعُسْرِ يُسْرًا
Verily, with every difficulty there is relief.
So when you have finished [your duties], then stand up [for worship].
Faitha faraghta fainsab
فَإِذَا فَرَغْتَ فَانصَبْ
Therefore, when thou art free (from thine immediate task), still labour hard,
And to your Lord direct [your] longing.
Waila rabbika fairghab
وَإِلَىٰ رَبِّكَ فَارْغَب
And to thy Lord turn (all) thy attention.