شَقّ difficult in Arabic
شَقّ is how you say “difficult” in Arabic.
Arabic
English
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Example sentence
فمجاهدتها أشق من مجاهدة العدو الظاهر؛ لأن العدو الظاهر يمكن الفرار منه أو قهره، وأما النفس فملازمة للإنسان لا تفارقه
So struggling against it is harder than struggling against a visible enemy; for a visible enemy can be escaped or conquered, but the self is ever-present with the person and does not leave him.
أَشَقُّ more challenging
A comparative meaning 'harder', built on the elative pattern that Arabic uses for 'more X'. It is the predicate of the comparison and stays in one fixed shape; the thing compared against follows, introduced by the next word.
The English is machine-translated.

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