«اِلشَّبْعَانْ يِفِت لِلْجَعَانْ فَتِّ بِطِي»

A person who is already full feels no hunger pangs, so when asked to break bread into pieces for a sop dish for someone starving, he works at a leisurely pace. The rhyming pair of sated and hungry sharpens the gap in urgency between the satisfied and the one still waiting.

More broadly, it criticizes the slowness of the comfortable when they serve the needy and impatient. People who do not share a hardship cannot feel its pressure, so their help tends to come late, without the haste that the sufferer's situation demands.

Say this when someone whose own needs are met handles an urgent request from another person sluggishly, such as a comfortable official delaying help or a well-off relative dragging their feet. It usually carries mild reproach or wry complaint from the side of the one kept waiting.