أَمَا الْحِمَامُ مِيعَادُكَ فَمَا إِعْدَادُكَ؟
Is not death your appointed meeting? Then what have you prepared?
The opening amā recalls an acknowledged truth; the follow-up fa-mā iʿdāduka asks what the addressee has actually prepared. The two questions work together: acknowledgment comes first, accountability follows.
Al-ḥimām means death here, not a bird or a bathhouse. The speaker is neither taking a mortality survey nor asking for theoretical information. The utterance turns a familiar proposition into a personal demand for readiness.
Practice: What does “fa-mā iʿdāduka” test? Not knowledge of death but the action taken in view of it.