Ash-Sharh ('The Relief'), 8 Meccan verses, continues the reassurance of the previous surah, recalling how God expanded the Prophet's breast and lifted his burden, and repeating the promise 'indeed, with hardship comes ease' (94:5-6), among the most quoted verses of consolation in Islam. Classical commentators generally read this surah as continuing directly from Ad-Duha without a clear break, some early authorities even treating the two as effectively one continuous revelation later divided for recitation, a minority position not adopted in the standard Uthmanic ordering that keeps them as separate numbered surahs. Its repeated promise, 'indeed, with hardship comes ease,' stated twice in close succession (94:5-6), is a grammatical construction classical philologists read as significant in itself, an indefinite 'hardship' followed twice by a definite 'the ease,' taken by many commentators to suggest that a single hardship is met by a doubled or more certain relief.
Classical commentators connect the surah's reference to relieving the Prophet's burden and raising his 'remembrance' (94:1-4) to the pairing of his name with God's own in the Islamic profession of faith and the call to prayer, read as the concrete historical fulfilment of a promise made in a very early, otherwise brief revelation. Its closing instruction, once free from one task to 'strive' toward another and to 'turn attentively' toward one's Lord (94:7-8), is read by classical commentators as a general principle of sustained effort and devotion rather than as referring to any single specific task, giving the surah's practical close a breadth beyond its originally narrow biographical occasion.