Ash-Sharh

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1. Verily, Allah has opened up your heart for you and made receiving revelation beloved to you.

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Al-Mukhtasar

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2. And I have removed sin from you.

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Al-Mukhtasar

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3. That which was burdening you to the extent that it almost broke your back.

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Al-Mukhtasar

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4. And I elevated for you your mention, so you are now remembered in the call to prayer, and the call preceding the prayer, and at other times.

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al-Maḥallī & al-Suyūṭī · 864–911 AH / 1459–1505 CE

? — this is similar to where God says: that God may forgive you what is pail of your sin [Q. 48:2]. [94:4] Did We not exalt your mention? For you are mentioned where I [God] am mentioned in the call announcing [the time for] prayer ( adhan ), in the [second] call to perform the prayer (iqama), in the witnessing [‘there is no god but God, Muhammad is His Messenger’] ( tashahhud ), in the Friday sermon and in other instances. [94:5] For truly with hardship comes ease. [94:6] Truly with hardship comes ease: the Prophet (s) suffered much hardship at the hands of the disbe¬ lievers, but then…

Al-Mukhtasar

Tafsīr Center for Qur'anic Studies · Contemporary

5. Indeed, with difficulty and constraint, comes ease and options.

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Al-Mukhtasar

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6. Indeed, with difficulty and constraint, comes ease and options; when you know that well, the troubling of your people will not terrify you and will not stop you from calling towards Allah.

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Al-Mukhtasar

Tafsīr Center for Qur'anic Studies · Contemporary

7. So when you finish your work and complete it, strive in the worship of your Lord.

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Al-Mukhtasar

Tafsīr Center for Qur'anic Studies · Contemporary

8. And divert your passion and resolve towards Allah alone.

Tafsir al-Jalalayn

al-Maḥallī & al-Suyūṭī · 864–911 AH / 1459–1505 CE

So when you are finished, from [performing] prayer, toil, exert yourself in supplication [to God], [94:8] and seek, devote yourself humbly to, your Lord. Meccan or Medinese, consisting of 8 verses. In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful: [95:1] By the fig and the olive, that is, the two [edible] foods — or [these denote the names of] two mountains in Syria on which these two foods grow — [95:2] and [by] the Mount Sinai, the mountain on which God, exalted be He, SJ)oke to Moses (sinin means ‘the one blessed’ or ‘the fair one with fruitful trees’), [95:3] and [by] this secur…