«اِلْعِزِّ بَعْدِ الْوَالْدِينْ هَوَانْ»

The saying sets honor against humiliation and makes the death of one's parents the dividing line between them: whatever passes for honor once mother and father have died is, in the speaker's eyes, nothing but humiliation.

It works as a lament, voiced chiefly by women whose parents have died, giving words to the grief that any regard left to them afterward feels like abasement.

Said mostly by women after the death of their parents, as an expression of mourning. It fits moments when a bereaved woman reflects on her parents' passing and on what remains to her without them.