What It Means To Say About Sayings Essay

Sayings, are sets of words that have powerful meaning and they either tell an advice or a meaningful story. Sayings are spread all around the world and each culture has their own sayings, however, there are some sayings that are found the same in many different cultures. An, interesting saying that I found in my culture goes like that “الوقت كالسيف ان ام تقطعه قطعك” ,and that mean that time is like a sword, if you don’t cross it, it will cross you. Moreover, this saying has been passed for generation, which made it have a vague history. What I mean about unclear history of the saying is that people in my culture don’t know for sure who said it or in what situation it was said. For example, a group of people believe that the prophet Mohammad said it, other believe that it was said by Al-Imam Ali. From my research about it, I weren’t able to find any clear awnesr. But even so, I would like to share the strong meaning behind it, the situation that it used in, and how this saying is connected to me. …show more content…
Time is an important thing in our everyday lives and knowing how to managing it and spend will make the people a lot happier. In addition, if you read the saying above, you will see that whom said it have described the time as a sword and how it’s in combat with us. The reason why in the saying they described the time as a sword is because at the time this saying was told it’s hard to retrieve body parts. Meaning if you got cut by a sword you would not be able to get back the part that have been cut, and time work the same way. However, the sword of time doesn’t harm the person physical, rather than harm him using short of time and brusher. But in the end, that’s what believe and understand the meaning of the saying above, there might be people how would define it in a different way. Furthermore, this saying can be said to two differents type