ʿAmr ibn Kulthūm: Tribal Pride, Independence and Closing Hyperbole (verses 92–103)

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• What is conveyed by kaʾannā ... waladnā al-nās?
• What condition is pictured by al-suyūfu musallāt?
• Why are ṭurran and ajmaʿīnā combined?
• Who are the ḥazāwirah in the rolling simile?
• What is the shared quality in kamā tudahdī ... al-karīnā?
• What does qubab refer to in this passage?
• What is Maʿadd associated with here?
• What is the claim of al-muṭʿimūna idhā qadarnā?
• What does bi-ḥaythu shīnā mean?
• What is the morphological form of al-māniʿūn?
• Which term contrasts rhetorically with al-tārikūn?
• What is the opposite of sakhiṭnā in the same verse?
• How should uṭiʿnā be analyzed?
• What does al-ʿāṣimūn mean here?
• What is implied by al-ʿāzimūn idhā ʿuṣīnā?
• What relation holds between ṣafwan and kadaran?
• What does the contrast nashrabu / yashrabu ghayrunā achieve?
• What grammatical form is abligh in alā abligh?
• What sort of question is fa-kayfa wajadtumūnā?
• What does sāma al-nāsa khasfan mean?
• What is asserted in abaynā an nuqirra al-dhulla fīnā?
• Why does the poet pair al-barr with al-baḥr?
• How should malaʾnā al-barra ḥattā ḍāqa ʿannā be read?
• What is said to be filled by safīnā?
• What is meant by al-fiṭām?
• What does takhirru indicate in takhirru lahu al-jabābir?
• What is the grammatical role of sājidīnā?
• Why contrast a weaned child with powerful tyrants?
• What is the dominant literary purpose of the final twelve verses?
• How should factual and exaggerated claims be distinguished in this closing passage?