«مَالِ الْكُنَزِي لِلنُّزَهِي»

The proverb ridicules the miser who piles up money and refuses to enjoy it. In its view, those savings eventually land with someone who spends them freely on amusement, so the hoarder's self-denial ends up serving another person and earns him nothing at all.

Behind the jab lies an assumption the saying takes for granted: heirs kept short by a tight-fisted parent will, once the wealth is theirs, indulge what they were denied and spend without restraint. On this outlook, stinginess in one generation sets the stage for extravagance in the next.

Fits a wry remark about someone who scrimps obsessively, or about an heir who quickly runs through a miser's savings. The jab it delivers is that money hoarded and never enjoyed by its owner simply ends up paying for someone else's pleasures.