«اِلرَّاجِلِ ابْنِ الرَّاجِلْ اِللِّي عُمْرُهْ مَا يْشَاوِرْ مَرَهْ»

The proverb defines ideal manhood, inherited from a father of the same caliber, as never asking a woman for advice. Firmness and self-reliance in decisions are cast as masculine virtues, and consulting a wife or other woman is implied to signal weakness or a lapse in proper authority.

Beneath the praise of decisiveness lies a clear assumption that women's opinions are unreliable or beneath a man's dignity. Its message therefore rests on gender hierarchy, and any modern reader should recognize it as voicing a historical folk prejudice, not endorsed advice, about who deserves to be heard in personal and family matters.

Use it to praise a man who makes decisions without consulting women, or to criticize a husband who seeks a wife's counsel. Its approving tone assumes male authority and treats women's advice as beneath a man's dignity; quoted today, it will sound openly sexist.