LessonsʿAmr ibn Kulthūm: Wine Gathering, Umm ʿAmr, Mortality and Parting (Verses 1–11)Quiz

قِفِي نَسْأَلْكِ هَلْ أَحْدَثْتِ صَرْمًا لِوَشْكِ الْبَيْنِ أَمْ خُنْتِ الْأَمِينَا
Stop and answer: have you severed our bond because parting is near, or been unfaithful to one who trusted you?

Ṣarm means breaking a relationship, washk nearness or imminence, and bayn separation. Al-amīn means the trusted or faithful one.

The alternative question hal … am exposes uncertainty: was the relationship broken by impending departure, or by a betrayal of trust? The charge remains part of the speaker’s emotional interrogation.

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Verse 10: Severance or betrayal?

ʿAmr ibn Kulthūm: Wine Gathering, Umm ʿAmr, Mortality and Parting (Verses 1–11)

قِفِي نَسْأَلْكِ هَلْ أَحْدَثْتِ صَرْمًا لِوَشْكِ الْبَيْنِ أَمْ خُنْتِ الْأَمِينَا
Stop and answer: have you severed our bond because parting is near, or been unfaithful to one who trusted you?

Ṣarm means breaking a relationship, washk nearness or imminence, and bayn separation. Al-amīn means the trusted or faithful one.

The alternative question hal … am exposes uncertainty: was the relationship broken by impending departure, or by a betrayal of trust? The charge remains part of the speaker’s emotional interrogation.