Mithla explicitly introduces a simile. Ḥuqq al-ʿāj is an iḍāfah (“casket of ivory”), and rakhṣan and ḥaṣānan add successive qualities.
The description combines sensory delicacy with guardedness. Its rhetoric does not merely name a material; it constructs an imagined object whose rarity matters as much as its appearance.
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ʿAmr ibn Kulthūm: Uncertain Time, the Beloved and Grief (Verses 12–22)
Mithla explicitly introduces a simile. Ḥuqq al-ʿāj is an iḍāfah (“casket of ivory”), and rakhṣan and ḥaṣānan add successive qualities.
The description combines sensory delicacy with guardedness. Its rhetoric does not merely name a material; it constructs an imagined object whose rarity matters as much as its appearance.