Indian school children light candles and offer prayers in Ahmadabad, India, Saturday, July 26, 2014 (AP Photo)
أهل السماح ملاح
Ahl el samah melah
Translation: People who forgive are beautiful.
Meaning: This saying of perhaps Syrian provenance is no longer common, although it is enshrined in one popular song. Egyptians have ceased to use the adjective “melih” (pl. melah) for “beautiful,” but prefer to use “gamil” or “helw”. The saying has no wit to recommend it, but has a sweet rhyme. You use it to exhort someone to forget and forgive, for this is the right thing, the melih thing, to do.
Source: Egyptian Proverbs, (Al-Ahram Center for Translation and Publishing, 1986) by Ahmed Taymour Pasha,
Translated by: Nabil Shawkat
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