- English translation
Every room has its payment.
- Literal wording
Every room, and to it belongs a payment.
- Meaning and lesson
The proverb holds that nothing is without worth. Whatever one points to, it carries a value of its own, and the saying asks the listener to recognize that value rather than overlook or dismiss it.
The room and its payment act as a compact, concrete image for this general principle, not as a statement about any particular dwelling or transaction. In Arabic, the rhyme of hujra with ujra binds the line together.
- When it is used
Useful when a speaker wants to stress that each thing has its own value and should be regarded accordingly, offered as a rhyming maxim that closes or sums up a point. Its word for 'room' survives mainly in proverbs and similar sayings, so the line sounds formulaic rather than everyday.
- Register
- proverbial
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