«اِلْقُلُوبْ مَا تِسَّخَّرْشْ»

Feelings of fondness or dislike cannot be produced on command; hearts cannot be pressed into service, a sense distinct from mockery. Neither pressure, obligation, nor persuasion can force a person to love someone, or to stop loving them. The heart follows its own leaning, and forcing it fails.

In practice the saying is used to accept, or to excuse, an emotional preference that resists reason or demand. It points out that affection must arise freely, so insisting on it is pointless. It can also gently decline a request to like someone simply because one is expected to.

Suitable when someone demands fondness, gratitude-driven love, or forced reconciliation, or when a person explains why they cannot warm to someone despite pressure. In everyday colloquial wording, it sets a gentle but firm limit on coercion in matters of feeling, whether affection or aversion.