وَلَقَدْ نَزَلْتِ فَلَا تَظُنِّي غَيْرَهُ مِنِّي بِمَنْزِلَةِ الْمُحِبِّ الْمُكْرَمِ
You occupy in my heart the place of an honoured beloved; do not suppose that my feeling is otherwise.
Laqad strongly affirms the statement. Nazalti is not a literal descent here but a figurative taking of a settled place in the speaker’s affections.
Fa-lā taẓunnī prohibits a mistaken assumption by a feminine addressee. The phrase bi-manzilati al-muḥibbi al-mukram expresses the honour attached to his love.
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ʿAntarah ibn Shaddād: Ruins, Love for ʿAblah and Tribal Conflict (verses 1–11)
وَلَقَدْ نَزَلْتِ فَلَا تَظُنِّي غَيْرَهُ مِنِّي بِمَنْزِلَةِ الْمُحِبِّ الْمُكْرَمِ
You occupy in my heart the place of an honoured beloved; do not suppose that my feeling is otherwise.
Laqad strongly affirms the statement. Nazalti is not a literal descent here but a figurative taking of a settled place in the speaker’s affections.
Fa-lā taẓunnī prohibits a mistaken assumption by a feminine addressee. The phrase bi-manzilati al-muḥibbi al-mukram expresses the honour attached to his love.