أَصَاحِ تَرَى بَرْقًا أُرِيكَ وَمِيضَهُ / كَلَمْعِ الْيَدَيْنِ فِي حَبِيٍّ مُكَلَّلِ
Companion, do you see the lightning whose flash I show you? It gleams like the rapid movement of hands within a piled-up cloud.
Aṣāḥi calls to a companion. Wamīḍuhu is the flash of lightning, while ḥabiyy mukallal evokes piled and layered cloud. The picture is of repeated flashes rather than a steady light.
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Imruʾ al-Qays: Lightning, Rain, Floods, and the Muʿallaqah’s Finale (Verses 70–81)
أَصَاحِ تَرَى بَرْقًا أُرِيكَ وَمِيضَهُ / كَلَمْعِ الْيَدَيْنِ فِي حَبِيٍّ مُكَلَّلِ
Companion, do you see the lightning whose flash I show you? It gleams like the rapid movement of hands within a piled-up cloud.
Aṣāḥi calls to a companion. Wamīḍuhu is the flash of lightning, while ḥabiyy mukallal evokes piled and layered cloud. The picture is of repeated flashes rather than a steady light.