Pashto Proverbs

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Topic: Enmity - دشمني

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• When a family becomes at variance, its whole crops become black oats
  چه کهول شي بې فرمانه، تول ئي واړه شي کر يانړه
  Black oats appear as a weed on poor land intermixed with the wheat and barley.
   

• When the one profits, the other's house is ruined
  چه د يوه سود کېږي، د بل کور نړېږي
  This is a common saying amongst Bannuchis and Wazirs, neither of whom can bear seeing a neighbour prosperous.
   

• Whose son and brother have been murdered, who has restrained his hand?
  چه ځوئي ورور ئي وي وژلې، د هغه لاس دې چا نيولې
  Amongst Pathans, the avenging of blood is regarded as a sacred duty, or, as the Italians put it, "A morsel for God." Every family of note has its blood feud, and every individual in it knows the exact number of members of the hostile family who have to be killed before the account, which may have been running for generations, can be balanced, and a reconciliation attempted. Sometimes, a nominal settlement is effected by the payment of blood-money, or so many young girls for each murdered man, whose account has not been closed by an equivalent murder. In the Frontier Regiments it is by no means uncommon for a Pathan soldier to cut his name, or take leave with the avowed object of pursuing to the death his father's or other near relative's murderer.
   

• An enemy is a thorn in the quilt
  دښمن د کنجړ اغزې ده
  The quilt is the only covering used in bed. An enemy like a thorn in it, must be got rid of.
   

• The fellowship of thieves is sweet, but quarrels ensue on division of the plunder
  د غلو وروري خوږه ده، خو په ويش باندې جګړه ده
   

• Enmity with outsiders disappears, but not with one's relations.
  د باهر بدي ورکه شي، او د کور بدي نه ورکېږي
   

• He (an enemy) will say sweet words to you, and lead you into a pit
  خواږه خواږه به درته وائي، او ژورې ته به دې بيائي
   

• When two fall out, a third gains by it
  چه د دوه سره جګړه شي، د درېم په کښۍ ښه شي
  So we say that "Two dogs fight for a bone, and the third gets away with it"
   

• The shelter of a tamarisk is (equal to) that of a mountain for a man who fears not God
  چه د خدائ ويره نه وي، د غزه پناه د غره پناه
  The idea is, what restrains a man from sin is the fear of God. Once that restraint is gone, the Godless man can go on in his wickedness with little fear of detection and punishment from his fellow man.
   

• When the village becomes two, it is good for backbiters
  چه کلي دوه شي، د چغلو ښه شي

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