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