‘I memorized the Qur’ān in two years’. al-Hārith said: ‘The Qur’ān is easy; the revelation [i.e. the secret revelation to Alī in the belief of the Shī’ah] is more difficult ’.
عَلْقَمَةُ قَرَأْتُ الْقُرْآنَ فِي سَنَتَيْنِ فَقَالَ الْحَارِثُ الْقُرْآنُ هَيِّنٌ الْوَحْىُ أَشَدُّ