بِأَيِّ مَشِيئَةِ عَمْرِو بْنِ هِنْدٍ نَكُونُ لِقَيْلِكُمْ فِيهَا قَطِينَا[
By what wish of ʿAmr ibn Hind should we become dependants serving your ruler?
Key vocabulary:[ Bi-ayyi introduces a rhetorical question; qaṭīnā refers to dependants or attendants.
The verse advances the speaker’s claim of autonomy, his reply to an opponent, or his ancestral prestige.
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ʿAmr ibn Kulthūm: Defying Royal Authority, the Spear Metaphor, and Ancestral Honour (verses 52–63)
بِأَيِّ مَشِيئَةِ عَمْرِو بْنِ هِنْدٍ نَكُونُ لِقَيْلِكُمْ فِيهَا قَطِينَا[
By what wish of ʿAmr ibn Hind should we become dependants serving your ruler?
Key vocabulary:[ Bi-ayyi introduces a rhetorical question; qaṭīnā refers to dependants or attendants.
The verse advances the speaker’s claim of autonomy, his reply to an opponent, or his ancestral prestige.