- English translation
Umm al-Khayr will get no better treatment than Aisha did.
- Literal wording
What is allotted to Aisha, Umm al-Khayr will receive.
- Meaning and lesson
The saying rebukes someone who expects to obtain from a person what another, comparably placed person could not obtain. Changing who makes the claim does not by itself mean that the person approached will be more willing or able to give.
Recorded with a dialectal form of the name Aisha, it expresses skepticism about hopes for exceptional favor when earlier treatment points otherwise. The personal names identify roles in the comparison, not qualities of people who bear those names, and should not be used to endorse stereotypes.
- When it is used
Use it to caution someone against expecting special advantages when an earlier person in the same relationship received no such benefit. It is most apt where the comparison is genuinely similar, rather than as a general judgment about people who share the names in the saying.
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