وَتَيْمَاءَ لَمْ يَتْرُكْ بِهَا جِذْعَ نَخْلَةٍ / وَلَا أُطُمًا إِلَّا مَشِيدًا بِجَنْدَلِ
At Taymāʾ it spared neither a palm trunk nor a fortified building, except what had been strongly built with stone.
Taymāʾ names a locality. Uṭum denotes a substantial, fortified structure; mashīd means strongly constructed, and jandal hard stone. The flood now reaches settlement and building works.
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Imruʾ al-Qays: Lightning, Rain, Floods, and the Muʿallaqah’s Finale (Verses 70–81)
وَتَيْمَاءَ لَمْ يَتْرُكْ بِهَا جِذْعَ نَخْلَةٍ / وَلَا أُطُمًا إِلَّا مَشِيدًا بِجَنْدَلِ
At Taymāʾ it spared neither a palm trunk nor a fortified building, except what had been strongly built with stone.
Taymāʾ names a locality. Uṭum denotes a substantial, fortified structure; mashīd means strongly constructed, and jandal hard stone. The flood now reaches settlement and building works.