سورة الشعراء، الآية ١٣
وَيَضِيقُ صَدْرِى وَلَا يَنطَلِقُ لِسَانِى فَأَرْسِلْ إِلَىٰ هَٰرُونَ ١٣
wayaḍīqu ṣadrī walā yanṭaliqu lisānī fa-arsil ilā hārūna
And that my breast will tighten and my tongue will not be fluent, so send for Aaron.
Verse 13 of Surah Ash-Shu’ara (26:13), a Meccan surah, is in juz 19, on page 367 of the mushaf. Read it in Arabic with its transliteration, translations and tafsir, and listen to it recited by 74 reciters.
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12-13. Moses (peace be upon him) said, I fear that they will deny me and what I convey to them from you, and that my breast will be constricted because of their denial of me, and that my tongue will not be free in calling to Allah, so send Gabriel (peace be upon him) to my brother, Aaron, so that he could assist me.
and I will feel distressed and my tongue will not be fluent, so send Aaron along [to help me].
"And my breast straitens, and my tongue expresses not well. So send for Hârûn (Aaron) (to come along with me).
And I shall be embarrassed, and my tongue will not speak plainly, therefor send for Aaron (to help me).
"My breast will be straitened. And my speech may not go (smoothly): so send unto Aaron.
And by breast straitens, and my tongue is not eloquent, therefore send Thou to Haroun (to help me);
And my breast will be straitened, and my tongue will not be free. (i.e., it will not express well; literally, will not go off freely) So send to Harun. (Aaron).
قَالَ رَبِّ ٱشْرَحْ لِى صَدْرِى …
[Moses] said, "My Lord, expand [i.e., relax] for me my breast [with assurance] …
