«اِللِّي يِعْمِلْ جَمَلْ مَا يْبَعْبَعْشْ مِنِ الْعَمَلْ»

The proverb rebukes a person who makes himself seem important and then complains about the burden attached to that posture. Its camel image concerns a conspicuous self-presentation, not necessarily actual leadership or social status.

It stresses accepting the strain of a demanding role one has chosen to present. Because it treats complaint as inconsistent with that choice, it can sound harsh when the difficulty was not voluntarily assumed.

Use it, teasingly or pointedly, for someone who has adopted an important-seeming or demanding role and then protests its effort. Avoid directing it at people facing hardship they did not choose, since its reproachful force may be unwelcome.