«إِنْ نَطَّرِتْ عَ السِّلَاحْ يَا سَعْدِ الْفَلَّاحْ»

The proverb welcomes rain that comes early, at the season when fields are being ploughed. Rain at that point is portrayed as fortunate for the cultivator, because it arrives in step with the first work of preparing the soil.

Its praise is directed specifically at early rainfall connected with ploughing and cultivation. The image presents such rain as a welcome agricultural advantage, linking a farmer’s good fortune to weather that arrives at the useful moment for the land.

Use it in agricultural talk to praise welcome early rain arriving while land is being ploughed or prepared for cultivation. It is especially apt when the weather is viewed as bringing good fortune to the farmer.