Ash-Sharh
سورة الشرحThis is the Arabic text of the Tafsīr al-Jalālayn of Jalāl al-Dīn al-Maḥallī and Jalāl al-Dīn as-Suyūṭī as the OpenITI corpus has it, from the copy of altafsir.com that the COBHUNI project of Hamburg University took: only the commentary on the verses, with no introductions, no edition and no pagination. Nobody has compared it with a printed book or a manuscript, and no scholar has reviewed it. Each passage stands beside the verses it comments on, which are the Qur’ān text of Tanzil, shown as it is there. Beneath each passage stands its English translation by Feras Hamza, as the copy of Tarteel’s Quranic Universal Library has it; nobody has compared that copy with the printed book either.
Text fromOpenITICC BY-NC-SA 4.0altafsir.comtaken 2026-10-21English translation: Feras Hamza, Tafsir al-Jalalayn (Fons Vitae, 2008), as published at altafsir.com by the Royal Aal al-Bayt Institute for Islamic Thought, from the copy of Tarteel’s Quranic Universal Library. altafsir.comQUL
أَلَمْ نَشْرَحْ لَكَ صَدْرَكَ 1
{ ألم نشرح } استفهام تقرير أي شرحنا { لك } يا محمد { صدرك } بالنبوة وغيرها؟.
Did We not expand (an interrogative meant as an affirmative, in other words, ‘We did [indeed] expand’) your breast for you, O Muhammad (s), by means of prophethood and otherwise,
وَوَضَعْنَا عَنكَ وِزْرَكَ 2
{ ووضعنا } حططنا { عنك وزرك }.
and relieve you of your burden,
ٱلَّذِىٓ أَنقَضَ ظَهْرَكَ 3
{ الذى أنقض } أثقل { ظهرك } وهذا كقوله تعالى:
ليغفر لك الله ما تقدم من ذنبك
[2:48].
that which weighed down your back? — this is similar to where God says: that God may forgive you what is past of your sin [Q. 48:2].
وَرَفَعْنَا لَكَ ذِكْرَكَ 4
{ ورفعنا لك ذكرك } بأن تذكر مع ذكري في الأذان والإقامة والتشهد والخطبة وغيرها.
Did We not exalt your mention? For you are mentioned where I [God] am mentioned in the call announcing [the time for] prayer (adhān), in the [second] call to perform the prayer (iqāma), in the witnessing [‘there is no god but God, Muhammad is His Messenger’] (tashahhud), in the Friday sermon and in other instances.
فَإِنَّ مَعَ ٱلْعُسْرِ يُسْرًا 5
{ فإن مع العسر } الشدة { يسرا } سهولة.
For truly with hardship comes ease.
إِنَّ مَعَ ٱلْعُسْرِ يُسْرًا 6
{ إن مع العسر يسرا } والنبي صلى الله عليه وسلم قاسى من الكفار شدة، ثم حصل له اليسر بنصره عليهم.
Truly with hardship comes ease: the Prophet (s) suffered much hardship at the hands of the disbelievers, but then he enjoyed ease when he was assisted to victory [by God] over them.
فَإِذَا فَرَغْتَ فَٱنصَبْ 7
{ فإذا فرغت } من الصلاة { فانصب } اتعب في الدعاء.
So when you are finished, from [performing] prayer, toil, exert yourself in supplication [to God],
وَإِلَىٰ رَبِّكَ فَٱرْغَب 8
{ وإلى ربك فارغب } تضرع.
and seek, devote yourself humbly to, your Lord.