LessonsImruʾ al-Qays: A Guarded Tent, the Pleiades, Objection, and Dunes (Verses 23–29)Quiz

خَرَجْتُ بِهَا أَمْشِي تَجُرُّ وَرَاءَنَا
عَلَى أَثَرَيْنَا ذَيْلَ مِرْطٍ مُرَحَّلِ
“I went out walking with her, while she trailed behind us, across our footprints, the hem of a patterned cloak.”

Kharajtu bihā shifts the action from the interior to movement outside. Amshī and tajurru present simultaneous activity: he walks as she trails the garment behind them.

ʿAlā atharaynā refers to their tracks; dhayl to the trailing hem; and mirṭin muraḥḥal to a decorated wrapper or cloak. The narrative now moves from the enclosed tent onto an open path.

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Verse 28: departure and the trailing cloak

Imruʾ al-Qays: A Guarded Tent, the Pleiades, Objection, and Dunes (Verses 23–29)

خَرَجْتُ بِهَا أَمْشِي تَجُرُّ وَرَاءَنَا
عَلَى أَثَرَيْنَا ذَيْلَ مِرْطٍ مُرَحَّلِ
“I went out walking with her, while she trailed behind us, across our footprints, the hem of a patterned cloak.”

Kharajtu bihā shifts the action from the interior to movement outside. Amshī and tajurru present simultaneous activity: he walks as she trails the garment behind them.

ʿAlā atharaynā refers to their tracks; dhayl to the trailing hem; and mirṭin muraḥḥal to a decorated wrapper or cloak. The narrative now moves from the enclosed tent onto an open path.