Surah Ash-Sharh (الشرح) • The Relief
Also written Inna ma’al usri yusra · Verse of ease after hardship · فَإِنَّ مَعَ الْعُسْرِ يُسْرًا
فَإِنَّ مَعَ ٱلْعُسْرِ يُسْرًا
fa-inna maʿa l-ʿus'ri yus'ran
For indeed, with hardship [will be] ease [i.e., relief].
— Saheeh International
So truly where there is hardship there is also ease;
— M. A. S. Abdel Haleem
Verily, along with every hardship is relief,
— Muhammad Muhsin Khan & Muhammad Taqi-ud-Din al-Hilali
Verses 5 and 6 of Surah Ash-Sharh repeat one sentence twice: "Indeed, with hardship comes ease. Indeed, with hardship comes ease." The surah was revealed in Makkah when the Prophet ﷺ was under pressure, and it reminds him of what Allah had already done for him before giving this promise. The Arabic says "with" hardship, not "after" it: the ease is already alongside the difficulty. Early commentators noted that "the hardship" is definite and "ease" is indefinite in both verses, and read that as one hardship followed by two eases, so that one hardship can never defeat two eases. It is the most shared verse of comfort in the Quran.
Sources: Quran 94:5. Reviewed by Ummatey editorial, October 2026.
