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This surah is notable because it remind me of how last year I actually started to practice the diin properly, before that i was just kinda lazing around stuff.
The first aayah says "Is it not that We expand your breast?" The 'you' obviously refers to nebi maxamed scw, but in half of these ayahs it could be associated with anyone who has started to properly embrade the diin. The term [نَشْرَحْ] coming from the verb [شَرَحَ] contemporarily means to explain something, but that meaning only came around because of the way the Quraan uses it from its traditional meaning of cutting up, amd laying bare. Therefore, a phrase such as [شرح له صدره] would refer to cutting open and exposing someones breast/chest. I can't help but draw parallels to the story of the nebi scw when he was taken by jibriil and had his chest cut open and his heart washed. Also the feeling of actually having islam enter the heart is similar to a chest expansion, at least for me. Note sahiih int. translator note: "enlighten, assure and gladden your heart with guidance."
The second to fourth aayaat is specific to the nebi scw "And We set aside from you your burden, That which weighed heavily on/split/broken your back, And We lifted for you your remembrance?" Burden refers to all the sin the nebi had and would have commited in his life, and the remembrance refers to the love of the nebi required in islam, the mention of sallallaahu caleyhi wasallam, his prescence in the shahaada and more. As ibn Kathiir says in his tafsiir:
The fifth and sixth aayaat are the most notable to me "So indeed with the hardship is ease, indeed with the hardship is ease." Allaah promises that good times are coming after the nebi's struggles, but also that good times will come after anyone's righteous struggles. In the prophet's case, his ease was seeing the kacba and makkah freed of taaghuut, and his qabiil accepting the message. Our ease may not necessarily be in the dunyaa though, as allaah says [وَلَلۡأٓخِرَةُ خَيۡرٞ لَّكَ مِنَ ٱلۡأُولَىٰ] "And the last (life, the aakhirah) is better for you than the first (life, the dunyaa.)" You righteous ninyahoow will have your comeuppance there
The last two aayaat are a command keeping what was previously mentioned in mind "So when you are free of obligation then strive, And towards your Lord desire." The word [فرغ] refers to being vacant, so when the nebi has no more worldy bureaucracy to tend to. [نصب] refers to setting up or dedicating something, and in this sense it refers to setting up worship to Allaah. The final word has a whole mini concept [رغبة], but at the basic linguistic sense it means desiring for your Lord. In his book Madaarijus Saalikiin, ibnu qayyim says
Which roughly translates with google translate to
Allaah mentions being done with the worldly obligations as a prerequisite for His worship here, because they can act as a distraction from it. Take again the ahadiith mentioned in the tafsiir:
Worship of Allaah doesn't have to require sacrifice of that beneficial to you, one because Allaah made this diin easy upon us following muusa cs and the failure of bani israa'iil to obey, and two because if you have to sacrifice something to worship Allaah that thing probably wasnt beneficial for you in the long term.
وَعَسَىٰٓ أَن تَكْرَهُوا۟ شَيْـًۭٔا وَهُوَ خَيْرٌۭ لَّكُمْ ۖ وَعَسَىٰٓ أَن تُحِبُّوا۟ شَيْـًۭٔا وَهُوَ شَرٌّۭ لَّكُمْ ۗ وَٱللَّهُ يَعْلَمُ وَأَنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ
"And perhaps that you dislike something and it is good for you, and perhapa that you love something and it is evil for you, and Allaah knowa and you do not know."
