تَجَاوَزْتُ أَحْرَاسًا إِلَيْهَا وَمَعْشَرًا
عَلَيَّ حِرَاصًا لَوْ يُسِرُّونَ مَقْتَلِي
“I passed the guards to reach her, and a group fiercely hostile to me—people eager for my death if they had the opportunity.”
Aḥrāsan refers to guards, while maʿsharan denotes a band or group. The earlier verse established seclusion; this one adds the speaker’s claim that he passed through its defenses, creating a sense of risk and bravado.
The closing phrase law yusirrūna maqtalī concerns a hypothetical threat to his life, not an account of an actual killing. The literary aim includes the narrator’s self-presentation as a daring adventurer.