أَلَمْ نَشْرَحْ لَكَ صَدْرَكَ ١
1. Did We not expand for you, [O Muḥammad], your breast?1944
Notes
[1944] i.e., enlighten, assure and gladden your heart with guidance.
Read Surah Ash-Sharh in Arabic and English
سورة الشرح
The complete Arabic text of Surah Ash-Sharh: its 8 verses in vowelled Uthmani script, with the English translation under each verse. Enlarge the text with A+, show the transliteration or word by word, and start the recitation: each verse lights up as it is recited.
Tajweed rules
- Hamzat al-wasl (silent)
- Silent letter
- Lam shamsiyyah (assimilated)
- Normal madd (2 counts)
- Permissible madd (2, 4 or 6 counts)
- Obligatory madd (4 or 5 counts)
- Necessary madd (6 counts)
- Ghunnah (nasalisation, 2 counts)
- Qalqalah (echo)
- Ikhfa (concealment)
- Ikhfa shafawi (meem)
- Idgham with ghunnah
- Idgham without ghunnah
- Idgham shafawi (meem)
- Idgham mutajanisayn
- Idgham mutaqaribayn
- Iqlab (noon becomes meem)
بِسْمِ ٱللَّهِ ٱلرَّحْمَٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ
وَوَضَعْنَا عَنكَ وِزْرَكَ ٢
2. And We removed from you your burden1945
Notes
[1945] By forgiving any errors which you may have committed previously or might commit consequently. "Burden" can also refer to the anxiety experienced by the Prophet (ﷺ) at the beginning of his mission.
ٱلَّذِىٓ أَنقَضَ ظَهْرَكَ ٣
3. Which had weighed upon your back
وَرَفَعْنَا لَكَ ذِكْرَكَ ٤
4. And raised high for you your repute.
فَإِنَّ مَعَ ٱلْعُسْرِ يُسْرًا ٥
5. For indeed, with hardship [will be] ease [i.e., relief].
إِنَّ مَعَ ٱلْعُسْرِ يُسْرًا ٦
6. Indeed, with hardship [will be] ease.
فَإِذَا فَرَغْتَ فَٱنصَبْ ٧
7. So when you have finished [your duties], then stand up [for worship].
وَإِلَىٰ رَبِّكَ فَٱرْغَب ٨
8. And to your Lord direct [your] longing.