«فَقْرِ الْمَرْء فِي وَطَنُهْ غُرْبَهْ»

The saying holds that lacking money can make a person feel foreign in the very place where they were born. The estrangement is figurative, not literal exile: familiar streets and kin offer little comfort when poverty leaves someone overlooked, unwelcome, or unable to take part in ordinary social life.

It also observes that belonging can depend less on birthplace than on standing and means. A person without resources may be treated like an outsider among their own people; the point concerns how others respond to poverty, not any failing of the poor. It pairs with a complementary saying that wealth abroad can feel like a homeland.

Fits reflective remarks about how poverty cuts someone off from neighbors, relatives, or old acquaintances, or about why a person might leave home seeking better means. Suited to sympathetic commentary rather than blame; it explains alienation instead of mocking hardship.