«عِينْ مَا تُنْظُرْ قَلْبْ مَا يِحْزَنْ»

Desire begins with sight. When the eye never meets something dazzling or enticing, no craving is awakened, so the heart has nothing to mourn when that thing is out of reach. Regret for a lost good depends on having first beheld it.

The two halves stand in parallel, pairing an eye that does not look with a heart that does not grieve. Sorrow over a missed attraction is tied to having seen it; whatever never caught the eye leaves no sense of loss behind.

Use it to explain why someone feels no regret over a fine thing they never saw, or to remark that a person who never glimpsed a tempting prize has no reason to lament its passing.