With every difficulty, there is ease.

Lepas solat, duduk di cafe dengan dia. Seperti biasa, ada masa terluang, masing-masing buka buku tebal di hadapan. Tiba-tiba dia bersuara.

" Farah, turn to page 203."  Dia senyum, manis.

Saya mendongak dari buku, pandang dia. Bacaan sebentar tadi ditanda dengan penanda buku. 

"Why?"

"Buka lah muka surat tu dulu."

Kemudian saya buka muka surat yang dia minta.

"Chronic inflammation does not necessarily imply inflammation of long duration, and may follow a transient or prolonged acute inflammatory stage..so?" Saya pandang dia, hairan. Kemudian, dia senyum

" Ingat tak Dr. H pernah cakap apa  dalam kelas kita dulu?During injury, healing process occurs simultaneously."

Saya angguk. Ya, ingat. Ingat sangat dan tak akan lupa sebab ada sesuatu yang berlaku ketika itu.

"Betullah kan, dulu pelik juga kan sebab masa injured tu proses penyembuhan pun berlaku pada waktu yang sama."

Lepas tu terus dia kaitkan dengan ayat Quran, ayat dan favourite semua orang,

"Remember? Inna maal usri yusra.." katanya.

"Indeed, with every difficulty, there is ease." Tak sedar pula saya tuturkan.

"Yup, absolutely true . Inna maal usri yusra laisa ba'dal usri yusra.."

Senyum, saya angguk lagi, setuju.

"Maksudnya Setiap kali ada kesusahan, kesenangan pasti ada bersama. Bukan muncul selepas, tapi muncul pada waktu yang sama.

Dulu fikir, nanti bila dah susah, selepas tu mesti  baru akan datang senang. Tapi Allah turunkan ayat memujuk, bersama kesusahan itu rupanya ketika itu juga Allah turunkan kesenangan dan kemudahan. 

Sama dengan proses penyembuhan.

Frequently there is some tissue destruction, inflammation and attempted healing occurring simultaneously.

Masya Allah.

***

Thing is, I came to realise something throughout the conversation I had with her. At some point in our life, there are things we need to remember. 

That Allah has a plan. However difficult that may be, just trust Allah.  

Whatever happens, in the end, to Allah we shall return. So maybe things don't go the way we wanted in this life, but  Allah is always with us, and the struggles of this world, however difficult they may be are only temporary. 

Sometimes we tried, and maybe things didn't go the way we had hoped, but we still developed in the process of trying. We would have learnt something from it, and trying our best is the most we could do.

Didn't we just say  that ' surely with every difficulty, there is ease (relief)'?

Masya Allah. Truly He is the best planner of all.

Have faith :)