«إِنْ كُنْتُمْ نِسِيتُمْ اِللِّي جَرَى هَاتُوا الدَّفَاتِرْ تِنْقَرَا»

The saying addresses people who have forgotten or disregarded what happened, telling them to bring out the notebooks and read them. The notebooks stand for the record of the past, an image for revisiting earlier events rather than necessarily a reference to actual written documents.

The reminder is pointed: even if those being addressed have forgotten or chosen to ignore the past, others have not. Their forgetting does not make the event disappear from the memory of those who witnessed or remember it.

Use it to challenge someone who has forgotten, or acts as if an earlier incident never happened, when the speaker or others still remember it. The tone can be reproachful or accusatory, rather than simply a neutral suggestion to consult records.