«اِلْجَارِي فَي الْخِيرْ كَفَاعْلُهْ»

The saying places a person who actively pursues a good deed on the same moral footing as whoever actually carries it out. Effort spent bringing something good into being is credited as though the deed were one's own, because that effort helped cause it.

The image of running suggests energetic, purposeful movement rather than passive approval. What earns recognition is active striving toward a beneficial end, so contributing to the cause of a good act is treated as a real share in that act.

Suited to acknowledging someone whose effort helped bring a good deed about, affirming that moral credit reaches beyond the person who completes it. The comparison depends on the outcome being genuinely good and on the person's striving having actually contributed to it.