«اِلْفَتْلَهْ تِبَيِّنِ الْعَمْلَهْ»

A trifling scrap can be the very thing that unlocks a puzzle. The saying treats a mere thread, the humblest part of any sewn item, as enough to point back to the whole it belongs to, so that something obscure becomes plain once its smallest component is noticed and followed.

The second word, al-'amla, can be taken as the finished piece of work the thread was stitched into, or more widely as whatever was done or made. Under either reading the point holds: small, easily dismissed details carry information about the larger thing behind them.

Suitable when a minor, easily overlooked detail turns out to explain something puzzling, or when urging someone not to dismiss a small clue that may shed light on a larger question. Its rhyming halves, fatla and 'amla, give it a compact, memorable shape.