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Arabic · Arabic scriptProverb: Verified

«إِنَ اسْعَدَكْ إِوْعَدَكْ»

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Meaning: Verified
English translation

If happiness is yours, it was promised to you long ago.

Literal wording

If He has made you fortunate, He has promised you that fortune.

Meaning and lesson

The saying presents good fortune as something allotted in advance. A person who enjoys happiness is viewed not as merely lucky in the moment, but as someone whose share of well-being was already destined.

It encourages a fatalistic reading of happiness: what comes to a person is treated as an old, assured appointment. The implied “promise” means something assigned or assured by fate, not ordinarily a pledge made by another person.

When it is used

Use it when describing someone’s happiness or favorable outcome as a matter of destiny rather than personal planning or a newly made promise.

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