One hand does not clap.
Arabic proverb
“One hand does not clap.”
What does Arabic proverb mean?
A classical Arabic proverb used wherever cooperation is the point. The corresponding image in the Sunnah is stronger and structural: the believers in their mutual love and mercy are like one body, and when one limb complains the whole body answers with fever and sleeplessness.
Written from Written from Al-Mukhtasar fi at-Tafsir and Tafsir Ibn Kathir.