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Both sayings comfort someone in difficulty with the expectation that it will lift. The relation evidence covers neither member's own source: each wording is attested by an internal source that may support only the wording, so both readings are the project's own independently written interpretations. A historical dictionary records the English saying, which is the only source-backed part of the comparison. The pairing is editorial, and no transmission or shared origin is claimed.
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After clouds comes clear weather.
After clouds comes clear weather.
The shift from cloud cover to clear skies represents a change from difficulty or gloom to relief. The proverb presents a troubling period as something that can pass. Its message is hopeful rather than a promise about timing. It encourages someone facing hardship to remember that circumstances may improve, even when that change is not yet visible.
«إِذَا اشْتَدَّ الْكَرْبْ هَانْ»
When trouble reaches its peak, relief may be near.
The saying holds that distress, once it reaches its most severe point, begins to ease. It offers hope at the moment it seems least justified: the very intensity of a hardship is taken as a sign that relief may be close. Its lesson is to hold on through the worst of a difficulty rather than give up when it is at its heaviest. It is a word of hope, not a promise. It does not say when relief will come or that it is certain, and it cannot tell whether a given moment really is the worst. It is misapplied as a reason to do nothing about a problem that can be addressed. It also differs from sayings that only say hard times pass: its point is about timing, that the peak of distress may be near its end.
Why these are connected, and where they differ
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Both sayings are offered as comfort to someone in difficulty. Each presents a hard time as something that gives way to relief, and uses that expectation to give the listener hope.
The English saying uses a change in the weather, clouds followed by clear skies, and says only that relief comes after the trouble, without saying when. The Arabic saying uses no image and makes a sharper point about timing: distress at its most severe may be close to easing, so the worst moment itself becomes a reason to hold on. The English suits reassurance about any setback; the Arabic is aimed at the moment of greatest strain. Neither saying promises that relief is certain, and neither record establishes present-day usage.
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