Saturday, July 26, 2008

Ash-Sharh

(1)Have We not opened your breast for you (O Muhammad (Peace be upon him))?

(2)And removed from you your burden,

(3)Which weighed down your back?

(4)And raised high your fame?

(5)So verily, with the hardship, there is relief,

(6)Verily, with the hardship, there is relief (i.e. there is one hardship with two reliefs, so one hardship cannot overcome two reliefs).

(7)So when you have finished (from your occupation), then stand up for Allâh's worship (i.e. stand up for prayer).

(8)And to your Lord (Alone) turn (all your intentions and hopes and) your invocations.

Thursday, July 24, 2008

Ad-Duha

(1)By the forenoon (after sun-rise);

(2)And by the night when it is still (or darkens);

(3)Your Lord (O Muhammad (Peace be upon him)) has neither forsaken you nor hated you.

(4)And indeed the Hereafter is better for you than the present (life of this world).

(5)And verily, your Lord will give you (all i.e. good) so that you shall be well-pleased.

(6)Did He not find you (O Muhammad (Peace be upon him)) an orphan and gave you a refuge?

(7)And He found you unaware (of the Qur'ân, its legal laws, and Prophethood, etc.) and guided you?

(8)And He found you poor, and made you rich (selfsufficient with selfcontentment, etc.)?

(9)Therefore, treat not the orphan with oppression,

(10)And repulse not the beggar;

(11)And proclaim the Grace of your Lord (i.e. the Prophethood and all other Graces).