«إِيشْ يِعْمِلِ الْحَسُودْ فِي الْمَرْزُوقْ؟»

The saying expresses confidence that another person’s envy cannot, by itself, undo the good that has come to someone else. It presents well-being, success, or happiness as something granted or allotted and secure against a resentful observer’s ill will.

It may be said to console a person who feels targeted by jealousy, or to dismiss envy as ultimately powerless. The focus is not on denying hostility, but on affirming that hostile feeling alone cannot take away what one possesses.

Use this as reassurance when someone worries that another person’s jealousy will spoil their success, happiness, or good circumstances. It suits a conversational, proverbial response that encourages confidence rather than retaliation, while its language of what is allotted may carry a fatalistic or religious tone.