«ادِّينِي الْيُومْ صُوفْ، وِخُدْ بُكْرَهْ خَرُوفْ»

The speaker asks for some wool today and, in return, agrees that the listener will take a whole sheep from them tomorrow. The saying voices a plain preference for having something now over waiting: what can be had at once counts for more with the speaker than what will be handed over later, even though a sheep is worth far more than some wool. It belongs with sayings that favour the small thing in hand today over the larger thing that belongs to tomorrow.

The saying states the preference; it does not judge it. It gives no reason for it and does not call the exchange foolish: the speaker may need the wool now, or may simply weigh the present above the future. Preferring the immediate can be reasonable when a need is pressing and cannot wait. The same preference becomes a costly impatience when the need could have waited and the larger later cost is real. It is misapplied if it is taken as advice that the present always matters more, or as a verdict that every such trade is a mistake.

Its present-day use is not established. Read as a comment on a choice, it could describe someone who would rather have a little now than wait, even at the price of giving more later, such as a person who agrees to repay more in the future for something received at once. Said of one's own choice, it can land as a frank admission of impatience; said of someone else, it can sound like gentle teasing, or like a criticism that the saying itself does not make, so its tone depends on the speaker more than on the words.