«خِيرَكْ عَلَى مَايْدِةْ غِيرَكْ مَا هُو لَكْ»

The saying measures ownership by who benefits rather than by who pays. When your resources are spread out for someone else to enjoy, the advantage they bring lands with that person, even though the expense was entirely your own.

Behind this lies a wider view of wealth: possessions count as truly one's own only to the extent that they are used and enjoyed. Read as advice, it prompts the listener to ask whether an outlay will serve them at all before making it, rather than treating mere payment as proof of ownership.

Fits situations where one person bears the cost of something while another is the one who actually enjoys it, offered as a pointed observation that the gain, and in effect the thing itself, belongs to whoever benefits.