With Hardship Comes Ease

Have We not lifted from you your burden

That weighed heavy upon your shoulders?

And raised high your remembrance

Through every broken window and door?

For indeed, with hardship comes ease – In the children who plant flowers in bullet shells – In the

teacher who draws letters in rubble dust – In the baker who shares his last flour – In the mother

who tells stories in darkness. Indeed, with hardship comes ease.

For indeed, with hardship comes ease – In the medic who runs toward smoke – In the grandfather

who still tends his trees – In the sister who braids hope into hair – In the brother who carries water

through fire. Indeed, with hardship comes ease.

So, when you have finished your task

Persist in your standing

And to your Lord alone

Turn all your longing.

Fa inna ma’al ‘usri Yusra

Inna ma’al ‘usri yusra

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