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Arabic · Arabic scriptProverb: Verified

«شِدَّه وِتْزُولْ»

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Meaning: Verified
English translation

It's a hard time, and it will pass.

Literal wording

A hardship, and it passes away.

Meaning and lesson

The saying treats hardship as a passing condition rather than a permanent state. It reminds a person in distress that the present trouble, however severe, carries its own end, and that patient endurance is the right response while it lasts. Its wording reflects spoken rather than formal Arabic.

It serves as words of comfort and encouragement more than as a description. Spoken to someone under strain, it urges them to bear the weight steadily, trusting that relief will come once the difficulty has run its course. It does not dismiss their pain; it acknowledges the trouble as real.

When it is used

Offered to someone enduring a calamity or a heavy burden, and especially to a person facing serious illness, as a gentle push to hold on and wait it out, since the ordeal is temporary.

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