«خُدْ مِنِ الزَّرَايِبْ وَلَا تَاخُدْ مِنِ الْقَرَايِبْ»

The saying advises a man that a wife from the humblest, poorest household is preferable to one chosen from among his relatives. Here "take" means taking a wife, and the "pens" stand for the poorest dwellings, likened to livestock enclosures, so the image signals poverty rather than actual animals.

The contrast drives the point home: even the most modest match imaginable still ranks above a kinswoman. This is one traditional standpoint on marrying kin, opposed by other sayings that favor a cousin, and it should not be presented as a settled rule.

Fits conversations where a man, or relatives advising him, weigh a marriage within the family against one with an outsider. It voices one side of that debate, firmly favoring the outsider, even a bride from very modest circumstances.