Surah Ash-Sharh — 94:5

Reflection

The preposition here is maʿa, alongside, rather than baʿda, after: ease is placed with the hardship instead of waiting on the far side of it. Classical commentators also noticed that the hardship carries the definite article while the ease does not, and read the repetition in the following verse as one hardship against two eases. It arrives after a question listing four things God had already done for the Prophet, so the promise rests on what had already happened.

Read 94:5–6 together

Read verses 5 and 6 together. The reassurance is repeated within a surah that recalls the Prophet’s burdens and the help he has received, then calls him to renewed effort and hope in his Lord (94:1–8). The wording places ease with hardship; it does not give a timetable for when a particular difficulty will end. Read the whole surah alongside these verses, and allow the passage to support hope without turning it into a prediction about your circumstances.

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Sources: Quran.com 94:5; Quran.com 94:6; Quranic Arabic Corpus 94:5.