With hardship comes ease.
What does the Qur'an mean that "with hardship comes ease"?
Key findingsEditorial
One finding for each passage this study carries, in the order the study reads them. Each is the reason that passage was signed into the study, in full and unedited - including, where the renderings disagree, the disagreement.
In plain wordsEditorial written by the editors, not a translation
The line is said twice, and it says 'with,' not 'after.' The ease is not only on the far side of the hardship once it has passed — it is set alongside it, carried in the same breath. Said once, it consoles; said twice, it insists. The verse does not promise that the hardship is light, or that it ends soon. It promises that hardship never comes alone.
Scope of this study
This platform shows the verse, its easy-read line, its translations, a plain-words reading, and each verse among its neighbours. It does not supply occasion of revelation, interpretation (tafsir) or history, and it never invents them.
What this study does not answer, and which uncleared source would be needed. It does not say on what occasion these verses were given: no source has cleared the rights audit. It does not report how any commentator has read them: no has cleared it either — the Arabic of , and is public domain by age, but no cleared English edition exists. And it offers no academic-historical reading: this study holds no such scholarship. Each of those is an absence with a named cause, not an omission.
What this rests on
Opens with 94:5, widening across 2 passages in all.
Easy-read
Easy-read is a simplified pronunciation, not authoritative — a rule-by-rule romanisation, not a reading. Each verse ends in its pause form, as it is said when you stop there. Pauses inside a verse and other tajwid rules are not shown. It is derived from the Tanzil Simple edition, while the Arabic above is the Uthmani edition; both are cleared, but they are not the same edition and their orthography differs.
The versesSource fact 2 passages, each with every cleared translation
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94:5
Why this passage is in the study finding 01
فَإِنَّ مَعَ ٱلْعُسْرِ يُسْرًا
Easy-read · not authoritative
Easy-read (simplified)fa'inna ma'a l-'usri yusraa
DIN 31635faʾinna maʿa l-ʿusri yusran
EditionTanzil Qur'an text (Uthmani) ·Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
The translators word this verse differently
Compare translations (4)
But lo! with hardship goeth ease
Verily, with difficulty is ease
Then verily along with trouble cometh ease
Verily a difficulty shall be attended with ease
Sources
EditionTanzil Qur'an text (Uthmani) ·Uthmani, Version 1.1·Tanzil Project ·Creative Commons Attribution 3.0·retrieved 24 Aug 2026
Receipts Tanzil Qur'an text (Uthmani) · Uthmani, Version 1.1
- Edition
- Uthmani, Version 1.1
- Custodian
- Tanzil Project
- Layer
- canonical text
- Licence
- Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
- Licence URL
- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
- Commercial use
- yes
- Modification
- contradictory
- Licence text
- read verbatim
- Review state
- cleared
- Retrieved
- 24 August 2026
- Digest
- 203f0f1bf3158b1e5be4ab9f8f6870e5…
- Located at
- https://tanzil.net/pub/download/index.php?quranType=uthmani&outType=xml
- Convention
- Hafs/Kufan verse numbering, 6236 ayahs. The bismillah is delivered as a separate `bismillah` attribute on ayah 1 and is NOT fused into the ayah text. 112 surahs carry one: every surah except al-Fatiha, where the bismillah is ayah 1:1 itself, and at-Tawba, which has none. Sourced from the XML output; the plain-text output of the same release DOES fuse it, which is defect D1.
CLEARED. Licence read verbatim from the block embedded in this very file. Ingested exactly as shipped: no normalisation, no stripping of marks, no Unicode recomposition.
Other languages (18)
Me të vërtetë, me vështirësinë vjen lehtësimi.
সুতরাং কষ্টের সাথেই রয়েছে সহজতা ও প্রশস্ততা।
Pa, zaista, s mukom je olakšanje,
Pa, zaista, s mukom je olakšanje,
Pellet kala saɗteende na won'di e newaare.
და ჭეშმარიტად, სიძნელესთან ერთად მოდის სიმარტივე [შემსუბუქება].
Nun, mit der Erschwernis folgt gewiss Erleichterung,
Πράγματι, μαζί με κάθε δυσκολία έρχεται ανακούφιση (γι’ αυτό μην αφήνεις τη βλάβη που λαμβάνεις από τους άπιστους να σε σταματήσει από το κάλεσμα προς τον Αλλάχ και τη θρησκεία Του).
निःसंदेह हर कठिनाई के साथ एक आसानी है।
In verità, segue all’avversità il sollievo!
5. Juk iš tiesų, su sunkumu (bus) lengvumas (t. y. palengvėjiimas).
Rakkinaa wajjin laafinatu (furmaataatu) jira.
Воистину, с трудностью — облегчение.
Па, заиста, са муком је олакшање,
Basi kwa hakika pamoja na uzito upo wepesi.
Sannerligen, i varje svårighet finns lättnad.
Şüphesiz her zorlukla beraber bir kolaylık vardır.
پس یقیناً مشکل کے ساتھ آسانی ہے.
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The verses around this oneSource fact
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ٱلَّذِىٓ أَنقَضَ ظَهْرَكَ
Easy-read · not authoritative
Easy-read (simplified)alladhee anqada zahrak
DIN 31635allaḏī ʾanqaḍa ẓahraka
Which weighed down your back?
Which weighed down thy back
which galled thy back
Which galled thy back
which galled thy back
وَرَفَعْنَا لَكَ ذِكْرَكَ
Easy-read · not authoritative
Easy-read (simplified)warafa'naa laka dhikrak
DIN 31635warafaʿnā laka ḏikraka
The translators word this verse differently
And raised for you your reputation?
And exalted thy fame
and exalted for thee thy renown
And have we not raised thy name for thee
and raised thy reputation for thee
94:5 — the verse above
إِنَّ مَعَ ٱلْعُسْرِ يُسْرًا
Easy-read · not authoritative
Easy-read (simplified)inna ma'a l-'usri yusraa
DIN 31635ʾinna maʿa l-ʿusri yusran
The translators word this verse differently
With hardship comes ease.
Lo! with hardship goeth ease
verily, with difficulty is ease
Verily along with trouble cometh ease
Verily a difficulty shall be attended with ease
فَإِذَا فَرَغْتَ فَٱنصَبْ
Easy-read · not authoritative
Easy-read (simplified)fa'idhaa faraghta faansab
DIN 31635faʾiḏā faraġta fānṣab
The translators word this verse differently
When your work is done, turn to devotion.
So when thou art relieved, still toil
And when thou art at leisure then toil
But when thou art set at liberty, then prosecute thy toil
When thou shalt have ended thy preaching, labour to serve God in return for his favours
94:6
Why this passage is in the study finding 02
إِنَّ مَعَ ٱلْعُسْرِ يُسْرًا
Easy-read · not authoritative
Easy-read (simplified)inna ma'a l-'usri yusraa
DIN 31635ʾinna maʿa l-ʿusri yusran
The translators word this verse differently
With hardship comes ease.
Compare translations (4)
Lo! with hardship goeth ease
verily, with difficulty is ease
Verily along with trouble cometh ease
Verily a difficulty shall be attended with ease
Sources
EditionTanzil Qur'an text (Uthmani) ·Uthmani, Version 1.1·Tanzil Project ·Creative Commons Attribution 3.0·retrieved 24 Aug 2026
Receipts Tanzil Qur'an text (Uthmani) · Uthmani, Version 1.1
- Edition
- Uthmani, Version 1.1
- Custodian
- Tanzil Project
- Layer
- canonical text
- Licence
- Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
- Licence URL
- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
- Commercial use
- yes
- Modification
- contradictory
- Licence text
- read verbatim
- Review state
- cleared
- Retrieved
- 24 August 2026
- Digest
- 203f0f1bf3158b1e5be4ab9f8f6870e5…
- Located at
- https://tanzil.net/pub/download/index.php?quranType=uthmani&outType=xml
- Convention
- Hafs/Kufan verse numbering, 6236 ayahs. The bismillah is delivered as a separate `bismillah` attribute on ayah 1 and is NOT fused into the ayah text. 112 surahs carry one: every surah except al-Fatiha, where the bismillah is ayah 1:1 itself, and at-Tawba, which has none. Sourced from the XML output; the plain-text output of the same release DOES fuse it, which is defect D1.
CLEARED. Licence read verbatim from the block embedded in this very file. Ingested exactly as shipped: no normalisation, no stripping of marks, no Unicode recomposition.
Other languages (18)
Me të vërtetë, me vështirësinë vjen lehtësimi.
নিশ্চয় কষ্টের সাথেই রয়েছে সহজতা ও প্রশস্ততা (সস্তি)।
zaista, s mukom je olakšanje!
zaista, s mukom je olakšanje!
Pellet saɗteende kala na won'di e yaajeende.
ჭეშმარიტად, სიძნელესთან ერთად მოდის სიმარტივე [შემსუბუქება].
mit der Erschwernis folgt gewiss Erleichterung.
Πράγματι, μαζί με κάθε δυσκολία έρχεται ανακούφιση.
निःसंदेह (उस) कठिनाई के साथ एक (और) आसानी है।[2]
In verità, segue all’avversità il sollievo!
6. Iš tiesų, su sunkumu (bus) lengvumas.
Dhugumatti, rakkina wajjin laafinatu jira.
Воистину, с трудностью — облегчение.
заиста, са муком је олакшање!
Hakika pamoja na uzito upo wepesi.
Ja, i varje svårighet finns lättnad.
Gerçekten güçlükle beraber bir kolaylık vardır.
بیشک مشکل کے ساتھ آسانی ہے.[1]
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The verses around this oneSource fact
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وَرَفَعْنَا لَكَ ذِكْرَكَ
Easy-read · not authoritative
Easy-read (simplified)warafa'naa laka dhikrak
DIN 31635warafaʿnā laka ḏikraka
The translators word this verse differently
And raised for you your reputation?
And exalted thy fame
and exalted for thee thy renown
And have we not raised thy name for thee
and raised thy reputation for thee
فَإِنَّ مَعَ ٱلْعُسْرِ يُسْرًا
Easy-read · not authoritative
Easy-read (simplified)fa'inna ma'a l-'usri yusraa
DIN 31635faʾinna maʿa l-ʿusri yusran
The translators word this verse differently
With hardship comes ease.
But lo! with hardship goeth ease
Verily, with difficulty is ease
Then verily along with trouble cometh ease
Verily a difficulty shall be attended with ease
94:6 — the verse above
فَإِذَا فَرَغْتَ فَٱنصَبْ
Easy-read · not authoritative
Easy-read (simplified)fa'idhaa faraghta faansab
DIN 31635faʾiḏā faraġta fānṣab
The translators word this verse differently
When your work is done, turn to devotion.
So when thou art relieved, still toil
And when thou art at leisure then toil
But when thou art set at liberty, then prosecute thy toil
When thou shalt have ended thy preaching, labour to serve God in return for his favours
وَإِلَىٰ رَبِّكَ فَٱرْغَب
Easy-read · not authoritative
Easy-read (simplified)wa'ilaa rabbika farghab
DIN 31635waʾilā rabbika farġab
The translators word this verse differently
And to your Lord turn for everything.
And strive to please thy Lord
and for thy Lord do thou yearn
And seek thy Lord with fervour
and make thy supplication unto thy Lord
What this study rests on, and what it refusessigned with it4 of the 5 paragraphs signed with this study; the paragraph naming what it does not answer is at the top of the page
The selection above and this account of it are part of what was signed. Where the renderings disagree it says so; where the question runs past what has cleared the rights audit it says that too.
Read across the four public-domain translations of 94:5 and 94:6, in full, and nothing else. No , no , no occasion of revelation and no biography was consulted, because none has cleared the rights audit. Itani 2012, the fifth translation shown with these verses, was not consulted for this study.
HOW THIS SECTION IS COMPOSED, STATED SO IT IS NOT MISTAKEN FOR ONE VOICE. The verse selection and the reason given for each verse are the Editor's, and appear with each passage above in his words. Everything else below is DERIVED at build time — from the four public-domain renderings and from the recorded rights state of each layer. None of it is an editorial reading, and no sentence here interprets the verses.
Where the renderings part company, named rather than resolved. The noun rendered "hardship" by Pickthall is "a difficulty" in Sale, "trouble" in Rodwell and "difficulty" in Palmer; the study does not choose between them. The repetition itself is rendered differently by each: Sale renders the two verses identically, word for word; Palmer's two differ only in capitalisation; Rodwell drops an opening "Then" in the second and Pickthall an opening "But". A reader who wants to see the doubling in English should read all four, because no single rendering carries it the same way.
What the language layer records, and what it does not. Camel Morph records a root for three of the four words in each verse. It records none for al-ʿusr — the word the question calls hardship. That gap is shown where it falls and is not filled: no root was assigned, inferred or supplied for it.
Sources & method
Translations Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an ·1880 translation, digital edition of unverified printing·None — public domain work ·Public domain — copyright term expired·retrieved 24 Aug 2026
Translations George Sale, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
George Sale, English translation of the Qur'an ·1734 translation, digital edition of unverified printing·None — public domain work ·Public domain — copyright term expired·retrieved 24 Aug 2026
Translations John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an·Public domain — copyright term expired
John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an ·1861 translation, digital edition of unverified printing·None — public domain work ·Public domain — copyright term expired·retrieved 24 Aug 2026
Translations Pickthall, The Meaning of the Glorious Koran·Public domain — copyright term expired
Pickthall, The Meaning of the Glorious Koran ·1930 translation, digital edition of unverified printing·None — public domain work ·Public domain — copyright term expired·retrieved 24 Aug 2026
Translations Talal Itani, ClearQuran·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Talal Itani, ClearQuran ·ClearQuran, "God" edition, EPUB·Talal Itani / ClearQuran.com ·Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International·retrieved 7 Sep 2026
Translation by Talal Itani, ClearQuran.com https://clearquran.com
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- Theme
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- Published
- 5 September 2026
- Updated
- 26 September 2026
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