«اِلْمُوتْ مِكَبَّهْ مِنْ ذَهَبْ لِمَنْ ذَهَبْ»

Here death acts as a screen between a person and the gaze of others. When someone stands close to being exposed, whether because prosperity has collapsed into want or because of some other disgraceful matter, an end that arrives first keeps the humiliation from ever coming to light.

Calling this cover golden stresses how precious such concealment is judged to be. The proverb offers a bleak sort of comfort: whatever was about to become public stays shut away, and the departed person's standing survives intact in the eyes of the living.

Suited to remarks framing death as sparing someone public humiliation, for instance when a collapse of fortune or a scandal was drawing near. The image is sober and rueful rather than celebratory, treating concealment of shame as a mercy.