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