20. Sura Taha
The Quranic Text & Ali’s Version:
قَالَ
رَبِّ اشْرَحْ
لِي صَدْرِي ﴿٢٥﴾
20: 25. (Moses) said:
"O my Lord! expand me my breast;"
C2552. The breast is reputed to be the seat of knowledge and affections.
The gift of the highest spiritual insight is what he prays for first. Cf. 94:1.
This was the most urgent in point of time. There are three other things he also asks for: viz.
1. Allah's help in his task, which at first appears difficult to him,
2. the gift of eloquence, and the removal of the impediment from his speech; and
3. the counsel and constant attendance with him of his brother Aaron, whom he loved and trusted, for he would otherwise be alone among the Egyptians.
20:25
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