The best speech is that which is brief and to the point.
Arabic proverb
“The best speech is that which is brief and to the point.”
What does Arabic proverb mean?
A classical Arabic maxim — khayr al-kalam ma qalla wa dalla, “the best speech is what is little and points.” The pairing is the whole of it: brevity alone is not the virtue, since the second word requires that the little said actually indicates something.
Written from Written from Al-Mukhtasar fi at-Tafsir and Tafsir Ibn Kathir.