Daily writing prompt
Do you have a quote you live your life by or think of often?

I am a moslem and I love this:

So, surely with hardship comes ease.
Surely with ˹that˺ hardship comes ˹more˺ ease.

It’s not just a quote.

It’s God’s words, in the Qur'an Surah Ash-Sharh (94:5–6).

This is my go-to motivation to stay patient when facing difficulties. There’s a promise that ease comes with hardship—not after, not before, but with. It means at the same time.

Also, it’s not that one difficulty comes with just one ease—it’s more than that.

As translated by Dr. Mustafa Khattab, the ayah is repeated. The word “hardship” (ٱلْعُسْرِ) is a definite noun repeated twice, meaning it refers to the same hardship—one hardship. But the word “ease” (يُسْرًۭا) is an indefinite noun repeated twice, meaning it refers to different forms of ease.

So these two ayahs give us confidence that for every single definite difficulty, Allah provides multiple, indefinite forms of ease.

It promises that relief is guaranteed.