«فِي لَيْلَةٍ أَدِيمُهَا ذُو لَوْنَيْنِ»
On a night whose outer skin seemed to have two colours.
The night is imagined as having adīm, a skin or surface, allowing its mixed tones to become visible. It is not a literal body; this is the effect of assigning physical features to an abstraction.
Dhū expresses possession and lawnayn is the dual genitive complement. Precise parsing matters: the two-colour image cannot be reduced to an ordinary dark night without losing the contrast.
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Advanced Applied Practice — Grammar, Rhetoric, Context and Interpretation
«فِي لَيْلَةٍ أَدِيمُهَا ذُو لَوْنَيْنِ»
On a night whose outer skin seemed to have two colours.
The night is imagined as having adīm, a skin or surface, allowing its mixed tones to become visible. It is not a literal body; this is the effect of assigning physical features to an abstraction.
Dhū expresses possession and lawnayn is the dual genitive complement. Precise parsing matters: the two-colour image cannot be reduced to an ordinary dark night without losing the contrast.