Hal is an interrogative particle, but here its aim is recollection rather than a neutral request for information. In yuntahabu al-nāsu, the verb is passive and al-nās is its grammatical subject in the passive construction, foregrounding those who suffer.
ʿUwāʾ provides sound imagery: the raids are remembered through the unsettling cries they caused.
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al-Ḥārith ibn Ḥillizah: Royal Praise, Tribal Disputes and Memories of War (verses 27–36)
Hal is an interrogative particle, but here its aim is recollection rather than a neutral request for information. In yuntahabu al-nāsu, the verb is passive and al-nās is its grammatical subject in the passive construction, foregrounding those who suffer.
ʿUwāʾ provides sound imagery: the raids are remembered through the unsettling cries they caused.