Inna maAAa alAAusri yusra (surah Sharh: 6)

Tafseer Tafheem-ul-Quran by Syed Abu-al-A'la Maududi

(94:6) Most certainly, there is ease with hardship. *4

Inna ma`al `usri yusra

*4) This has been repeated twice so as to reassure the Holy Prophet that the bad times hp was passing through at that time would not last for ever, but were going to be replaced by good times in the near future. On the surface this appears to be a contradiction that hardship should be accompanied by ease, for these two things do not co-exist. But the words "hardship with ease" instead of "ease after hardship" have been used in the sense that the period of ease is so close to it as if it were a concomitant of it.