«اِلشَّاعِرْ يُقُولْ مَا عَنْدُهْ وِالْمُبْتَلِي يِمْلِي مِنْ وَجْدُهْ»

The saying places a poet, here a folk singer performing to the rebab rather than a literary poet, who simply delivers whatever material he has at hand, beside a person under real affliction, whose words rise out of private grief. Both are speaking, but only one is moved by what he says.

Its lesson is that a person free of sorrow and a person weighed down by it are not alike. Their words may sound the same, yet the afflicted one, the person being tried rather than the one causing affliction, speaks from lived feeling the untroubled speaker does not share.

Use it to set apart someone who speaks of sorrow without carrying it from someone who speaks while actually enduring it, as a reminder that ease and grief do not give a person the same voice or the same understanding.