«اِللِّي مَا هُو لَكْ كَمَانْ شُوَيَّهْ يْقَلَّعُوا لَكْ»

The proverb cautions that the use of a borrowed item is temporary. What belongs to another remains subject to its owner's reclaiming it, even when the borrower has had it only a short time.

Its immediate image is a borrowed garment that must be taken off when its owner asks for it back. The saying stresses the insecure, passing nature of possession held on loan rather than permanent ownership.

Used to warn against treating a borrowed garment or another loaned possession as permanently one's own, since its owner may reclaim it after a short interval. The concrete image of removing borrowed clothing is central to the expression.