LessonsImruʾ al-Qays: Lightning, Rain, Floods, and the Muʿallaqah’s Finale (Verses 70–81)Quiz

كَأَنَّ ثَبِيرًا فِي عَرَانِينِ وَبْلِهِ / كَبِيرُ أُنَاسٍ فِي بِجَادٍ مُزَمَّلِ
Mount Thabīr, amid the sheets of heavy rain, resembles a venerable elder wrapped in a striped cloak.

Thabīr is a mountain, wabl heavy rainfall, bijād a striped wrap, and muzammal one wrapped up. Rain becomes a cloak around the mountain.

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Verse 77: the mountain as a cloaked elder

Imruʾ al-Qays: Lightning, Rain, Floods, and the Muʿallaqah’s Finale (Verses 70–81)

كَأَنَّ ثَبِيرًا فِي عَرَانِينِ وَبْلِهِ / كَبِيرُ أُنَاسٍ فِي بِجَادٍ مُزَمَّلِ
Mount Thabīr, amid the sheets of heavy rain, resembles a venerable elder wrapped in a striped cloak.

Thabīr is a mountain, wabl heavy rainfall, bijād a striped wrap, and muzammal one wrapped up. Rain becomes a cloak around the mountain.