«اِلبَخْتْ يِتَّبَّعِ اصْحَابُهْ»

The proverb pictures a person's fortune as a constant companion that cannot be left behind. Wherever someone goes, the same luck travels along, so a change of location brings no fresh start.

The fortune in question is an unhappy one. The image is of hardship that keeps catching up with its bearer, as though misfortune were attached to the individual rather than to any particular place.

Fitting when someone's bad luck appears to have followed them to a new place, framing their misfortune as something they carry with them wherever they go rather than something they can escape by moving.