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Showing posts with label danger. Show all posts

اذا حلف فيك الرجل بت نعس و اذا حلف فيك النساء بت فيق If men swear to harm you, sleep through the night, but if women swear to harm you, stay awake

  This Moroccan proverb is from the Wit and Wisdom of Morocco by Edward Westermack:

اذا حلف فيك الرجل بت نعس و اذا حلف فيك النساء بت فيق
(ida halfu feek r-rajul bat na'as wa ida halfu feek an-nisa' bat fayeq)
Literal meaning: if men swear to harm you, sleep through the night, but if women swear to harm you, stay awake.
Meaning: women are more dangerous than men, as in the Kipling poem: "the female of the species is more deadly than the male"

بعد عن الشر و غنيله

I had seen this proverb several places and it seems that it is used throughout the Arabic speaking world.

بعد عن الشر و غنيله
(ba'ada 'an esh-sh'ar wa ghaniluhu)
Literal meaning: Run away from danger and sing to it
Meaning: Avoid danger, and be glad that it hit someone else.A warning against exposing yourself to danger.