Ghayra annī creates an adversative transition, with the first-person suffix serving as the noun of anna. The imperfect in qad astaʿīnu can describe a recurrent or present practice.
Idhā khaffa bi-l-thawī al-najāʾu is a temporal construction; al-najāʾu is the subject of khaffa. The deferred bi-zafūfin identifies the actual means of countering distress: the swift mount.
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al-Ḥārith ibn Ḥillizah: Separation, Asmāʾ’s Dwellings, Hind’s Fire and the She-Camel (verses 1–13)
Ghayra annī creates an adversative transition, with the first-person suffix serving as the noun of anna. The imperfect in qad astaʿīnu can describe a recurrent or present practice.
Idhā khaffa bi-l-thawī al-najāʾu is a temporal construction; al-najāʾu is the subject of khaffa. The deferred bi-zafūfin identifies the actual means of countering distress: the swift mount.