The tongue is the translator of the heart.
Arabic proverb
Arabic proverb

“The tongue is the translator of the heart.”

The explanation

What does Arabic proverb mean?

A saying long current in Arabic letters, where the tongue is described as the interpreter that renders what is inside into something audible. The corresponding teaching in the Sunnah is direct: whoever believes in Allah and the Last Day should speak good or stay silent — speech treated as evidence rather than decoration.

Written from Written from Al-Mukhtasar fi at-Tafsir and Tafsir Ibn Kathir.

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