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The two sayings make the same argument. The relation evidence covers one side only: the English side rests on a historical dictionary entry, while the Arabic wording is attested by an internal source that may support only the wording, so the Arabic reading is the project's own independently written interpretation and no source-backed claim describes it. The pairing is editorial, and no transmission or shared origin is claimed.
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Haste makes waste.
Haste makes waste.
The saying warns that hurrying a task tends to cost more than it saves. Rushed work invites mistakes, and mistakes have to be paid for in spoiled material, wasted effort, extra expense or work that must be done again. It is stated as a general rule about what haste does, and its lesson is that taking enough care at the start is usually cheaper than repairing the results of a rush. Haste here means careless hurry, not speed as such: a skilled person working quickly and accurately is not its target. The saying also weighs only one side of the choice. It names what rushing can waste but says nothing about what going slowly costs, so it is misapplied where delay is itself the larger loss, as in an emergency or with a chance that will not wait. It can also be stretched into an excuse for avoidable slowness.
«اِبْطِي ولا تِخْطِي»
Take your time so you don’t slip up.
The saying advises the listener to slow down rather than risk getting something wrong. It names the fault it wants to prevent, an error, and it does not pretend that going slowly is free: it admits that taking longer has a cost and judges that cost to be the smaller one. Used in conversation, it turns a choice between speed and correctness into a clear priority, with correctness first. The advice fits work where an error is costly or hard to undo and where extra time does little damage. It is misapplied when the delay is itself the harm, as in an emergency, a closing deadline or a chance that will not wait, and it can sound like an excuse when offered to justify avoidable slowness. It holds only while slowness really is the lighter of the two costs.
Why these are connected, and where they differ
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Both sayings are used to stop someone rushing a task and to argue that the time hurrying saves is not worth what it costs. Each sets speed against getting the work right and comes down on the side of getting it right.
The English saying names the consequence: waste, the material, effort or money lost when rushed work has to be redone. It is phrased as a general rule about what haste does. The Arabic saying names the fault instead, a mistake, and is phrased as advice to the listener: go slowly rather than err. It concedes that slowness is a cost and says it is the smaller one, which the English saying never states. Neither record establishes present-day usage.
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