«يُشُوفِ الْغَنَمْ سَارْحَهْ، يُقُولْ: سَأَلْنَاكُمِ الْفَاتْحَهْ»

The scene is a comic misperception: a man watches a flock heading out to graze and takes the animals for a party of pilgrims on their way to a holy man's tomb. He solemnly asks them to recite the Fatiha, the Quran's opening chapter, for him, as one might ask real visitors to pray on one's behalf.

Applied to people, the saying mocks anyone who cannot tell what they are looking at, whether from poor eyesight or dull judgment: a simple-minded person who mistakes the obvious for something else and responds with absurd seriousness.

Use it humorously when someone misreads what is in front of them, through weak sight or obtuseness, such as mistaking an ordinary scene for something solemn. It suits teasing among familiar company; aimed at a real person outside that circle, it can read as an insult about eyesight or intelligence.