Tafsir Al-Jalalayn: Taa-Haa, Ayah 25
قَالَ رَبِّ ٱشْرَحْ لِى صَدْرِى
[Moses] said, "My Lord, expand for me my breast [with assurance]
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((Moses) said: My Lord! Relieve my mind) soften my heart so that I do not fear him,
Related Hadiths
Sahih al-Bukhari#3593Sahih
Once the Prophet (ﷺ) embraced me (pressed me to his chest) and said, "O Allah, teach him wisdom (i.e. the understanding of the knowledge of Qur'an).
Narrated by Narrated Ibn `Abbas:
Sahih Muslim#2244Sahih
I saw the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) saying with fingers in the opening of his shirt:" If you had seen him trying to expand it, it will not expand."
Narrated by Abu Haraira reported that the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) gave similitudes of a miserly man and the giver of charity as two persons who have two coats-of-mail over them with their hands pressed closely to their breasts and their collar bones. Whenever the giver of charity gives charity it (the coat-of mail) expands so much as to cover his finger tips and obliterate his foot prints. And whenever the miserly person intends to give charity (the coat-of-mail) contracts and every ring grips the place where it is. He (Abu Huraira) said:
Al-Jalalayn Commentary
He said ‘My Lord expand my breast for me expand it so that it may accommodate the weight of the Divine Message.