LessonsʿAntarah ibn Shaddād: Travel, Camel Gait and Ostrich Imagery (verses 20–30)Quiz

شَرِبَتْ بِمَاءِ الدُّحْرُضَيْنِ فَأَصْبَحَتْ زَوْرَاءَ تَنْفِرُ عَنْ حِيَاضِ الدَّيْلَمِ
After drinking at the waters of al-Duḥruḍayn, the she-camel turns aside and shies away from the watering troughs of al-Daylam, understood here as enemies.

Al-Duḥruḍayn is presented as a watering-place name. Having drunk there, the she-camel becomes zawrāʾ—turned aside—and tanfiru suggests shying away.

The commentary reads al-Daylam here as a hostile group; the animal avoids their troughs. The poetic label need not be mapped mechanically onto a modern people or political boundary.

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Verse 28: Watering and turning away

ʿAntarah ibn Shaddād: Travel, Camel Gait and Ostrich Imagery (verses 20–30)

شَرِبَتْ بِمَاءِ الدُّحْرُضَيْنِ فَأَصْبَحَتْ زَوْرَاءَ تَنْفِرُ عَنْ حِيَاضِ الدَّيْلَمِ
After drinking at the waters of al-Duḥruḍayn, the she-camel turns aside and shies away from the watering troughs of al-Daylam, understood here as enemies.

Al-Duḥruḍayn is presented as a watering-place name. Having drunk there, the she-camel becomes zawrāʾ—turned aside—and tanfiru suggests shying away.

The commentary reads al-Daylam here as a hostile group; the animal avoids their troughs. The poetic label need not be mapped mechanically onto a modern people or political boundary.