Uncertain outcome

Anyone who takes to the ship must reckon with the chance of drowning.

Entering a risky undertaking means accepting that harm or failure remains possible. The proverb stresses exposure to danger, not the certainty of disaster.

Tomorrow Rajab begins, and you will see these wonders.

The saying cautions against making or amplifying dramatic predictions about what has not happened. Rather than treating rumor or conjecture as knowledge, it points to the near future as the test of such claims.

Just wait—when it is your children’s turn, we will see what they are like.

This saying rebukes someone who habitually disparages or speaks ill of other people’s children. It warns them not to be smug: their own children or offspring may one day be judged just as harshly.

What you dread may prove better than you expect.

The proverb cautions against treating fear as an accurate forecast. A situation that appears threatening in advance can unfold differently from the harm a person had imagined, so anxious expectations should not be mistaken for certainty.

Don't call your day a good one until it has come to an end.

The saying warns against declaring your own day good while it is still in progress, before it has passed. Whatever has gone well so far, the remaining hours could still bring trouble, so any verdict on the day is incomplete until it has actually ended.

Like the man at the scale, you know the true weight only when the weighing is done.

The saying holds that a matter is truly settled only at its close. Early signs, whether promising or discouraging, do not decide the result. What counts is how things finally turn out.

Anyone who takes a grave risk may return safely or meet disaster.

Its force lies in a blunt two-way split. The saying leaves no room for a partial or comfortable result: a hazardous choice is reduced to survival or ruin, and the tall palm works as a vivid picture of how much is at stake once someone commits.

Do not celebrate someone’s departure until you see who comes to replace them.

Do not treat a departure as good news before you know what will take its place. The replacement may prove no better, or even worse.