إِنْ يَفْعَلَا فَلَقَدْ تَرَكْتُ أَبَاهُمَا جَزَرَ السِّبَاعِ وَكُلِّ نَسْرٍ قَشْعَمِ
If they act, I have already left their father as carrion for beasts of prey and aged vultures.
In yafʿalā is a conditional using the dual. Jazar al-sibāʿ denotes carrion for predators; nasr qashʿam evokes an aged, powerful vulture. The severe final image heightens martial boasting and closes the personal feud narrative, without turning it into a general moral model.
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ʿAntarah ibn Shaddād: Love, Ingratitude, the Wounded Horse and Final Boast (verses 57–75)
إِنْ يَفْعَلَا فَلَقَدْ تَرَكْتُ أَبَاهُمَا جَزَرَ السِّبَاعِ وَكُلِّ نَسْرٍ قَشْعَمِ
If they act, I have already left their father as carrion for beasts of prey and aged vultures.
In yafʿalā is a conditional using the dual. Jazar al-sibāʿ denotes carrion for predators; nasr qashʿam evokes an aged, powerful vulture. The severe final image heightens martial boasting and closes the personal feud narrative, without turning it into a general moral model.