


We increased your tolerance so that you were able to overcome the difficulties of conveying the message. We filled your heart with knowledge and wisdom. This took place four times – in his infancy when he was with Sayyidatuna Halimah, when he was ten years old, just before he was made a prophet and on the night of the Isra and Mi`raj. Part of this expansion was the splitting of the Prophet’s chest. We expanded your heart such that the light of prophethood could enter and you were thus able to convey the message to all the worlds. However, We gave it to you without you asking. When We ordered Sayyiduna Musa to convey the message, he asked that his chest be expanded: My Lord expand my chest and make easy my affair. A summary of Habib Umar’s commentary on Surat al-Inshirah, Ramadan 1436.Īllah says: Have We not expanded your chest for you?
