بِأَيِّ مَشِيئَةِ عَمْرِو بْنِ هِنْدٍ تُطِيعُ بِنَا الْوُشَاةَ وَتَزْدَرِينَا[
By what claim of ʿAmr ibn Hind do you heed informers against us and despise us?
Key vocabulary:[ Al-wushāt are tale-bearers; tazdarīnā means “you scorn us.” The question is a rebuke.
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 تُطِيعُ بِنَا الْوُشَاةَ وَتَزْدَرِينَا[
By what claim of ʿAmr ibn Hind do you heed informers against us and despise us?
Key vocabulary:[ Al-wushāt are tale-bearers; tazdarīnā means “you scorn us.” The question is a rebuke.
The verse advances the speaker’s claim of autonomy, his reply to an opponent, or his ancestral prestige.