يُضِيءُ سَنَاهُ أَوْ مَصَابِيحُ رَاهِبٍ / أَمَالَ السَّلِيطَ بِالذُّبَالِ الْمُفَتَّلِ
Its brilliance shines like the lamps of a monk who has tilted the oil toward the twisted wicks.
Sanāhu is the lightning’s brilliance and maṣābīḥ rāhib the lamps of a monk. Al-salīṭ is lamp oil; al-dhubāl al-mufattal is a twisted wick. A familiar lamp makes an extraordinary flash imaginable.
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Imruʾ al-Qays: Lightning, Rain, Floods, and the Muʿallaqah’s Finale (Verses 70–81)
يُضِيءُ سَنَاهُ أَوْ مَصَابِيحُ رَاهِبٍ / أَمَالَ السَّلِيطَ بِالذُّبَالِ الْمُفَتَّلِ
Its brilliance shines like the lamps of a monk who has tilted the oil toward the twisted wicks.
Sanāhu is the lightning’s brilliance and maṣābīḥ rāhib the lamps of a monk. Al-salīṭ is lamp oil; al-dhubāl al-mufattal is a twisted wick. A familiar lamp makes an extraordinary flash imaginable.