شرح (opened). شرح المسألة means, he explained the question. شرح الکلام means, he understood the talk. شرح الشیء means, he guarded the thing, he preserved it شرح صدرہ للشیء means, he was pleased with the thing. The breast symbolically being the seat of knowledge and feelings, its expansion (in the present context) signifies its illumination with wisdom, divine light and peace and its vastness for the reception of what was to be revealed to the Holy Prophet (Lane, Aqrab & Muhit).
Commentary:
In view of different meanings of the word شرح, the verse may have one or all of the following interpretations: (1) God had protected the heart of the Holy Prophet from all harmful influences. It was impossible for evil to enter it. (2) God was the Prophet’s own Preceptor and Teacher and besides temporal knowledge He had opened his breast to comprehend the divine mysteries. (3) The Prophet never suffered from straitness of the heart and was endowed with patience and fortitude to such a degree that even the hardest tribulation could not disturb his peace of mind.
اردو ترجمہ مودودی
(اے نبیؐ) کیا ہم نے تمہارا سینہ تمہارے لیے کھول نہیں دیا؟
English - Sahih
Did We not expand for you, [O Muhammad], your breast?
اردو ترجمہ احمد علی
کیا ہم نے آپ کا سینہ نہیں کھول دیا
English - Talal Itani
Have not We expanded for you your breast?
Chinese Commentary *
اردہ تفصیرِ صغیر نوٹس*
English - Arberry
Did We not expand thy breast for thee
English - Maududi
(O Prophet), Did We not lay open your breast
English - Ahmed Ali
HAVE WE NOT opened up your breast
English - Yusuf Ali
Have We not expanded thee thy breast?-
English - Five Volume Commentary *
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Important Words:
شرح (opened). شرح المسألة means, he explained the question. شرح الکلام means, he understood the talk. شرح الشیء means, he guarded the thing, he preserved it شرح صدرہ للشیء means, he was pleased with the thing. The breast symbolically being the seat of knowledge and feelings, its expansion (in the present context) signifies its illumination with wisdom, divine light and peace and its vastness for the reception of what was to be revealed to the Holy Prophet (Lane, Aqrab & Muhit).
Commentary:
In view of different meanings of the word شرح, the verse may have one or all of the following interpretations: (1) God had protected the heart of the Holy Prophet from all harmful influences. It was impossible for evil to enter it. (2) God was the Prophet’s own Preceptor and Teacher and besides temporal knowledge He had opened his breast to comprehend the divine mysteries. (3) The Prophet never suffered from straitness of the heart and was endowed with patience and fortitude to such a degree that even the hardest tribulation could not disturb his peace of mind.