નફકરાને મસીદમાં દીવો કરવાનું કામ સોંપવું.

naphakarānē masīdamāṁ dīvō karavānuṁ kāma sōṁpavuṁ.

Literally: To assign the task of lighting a lamp in the mosque to a good-for-nothing.
What it means: Giving an important responsibility to an unreliable person is a mistake.

કહેવત સમુદાય (Kahevat Samuday) · read from the scan by machine — the Gujarati itself is unchecked · English is machine-made and nobody has checked it yet

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