You have made yourself heard, had you called a live one but there is no life in that whom you call. And had it been fire that you are blowing into, it would have made light but you are blowing into ashes.

Arabic Proverb

Translation…You have done what you need to do, the lack of results is not due to you but because those that you wish to respond are as good as dead. To express that the one called upon to act is useless and that no matter how hard one tries, there will be no results.