تَرَّاكُ أَمْكِنَةٍ إِذَا لَمْ أَرْضَهَا أَوْ يَعْتَلِقْ بَعْضَ النُّفُوسِ حِمَامُهَا
I leave places that do not please me, unless death seizes a life and makes departure impossible.
Tarrāk is an intensive description of someone willing to leave; amkinah is the plural of ‘place’. Here ḥimām does not mean pigeons: it denotes death. The verb yaʿtaliq evokes the act of seizing or fastening onto something.
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Labīd ibn Rabīʿah: Resolve, Nawār and Pre-Islamic Night Gatherings (Verses 54–61)
تَرَّاكُ أَمْكِنَةٍ إِذَا لَمْ أَرْضَهَا أَوْ يَعْتَلِقْ بَعْضَ النُّفُوسِ حِمَامُهَا
I leave places that do not please me, unless death seizes a life and makes departure impossible.
Tarrāk is an intensive description of someone willing to leave; amkinah is the plural of ‘place’. Here ḥimām does not mean pigeons: it denotes death. The verb yaʿtaliq evokes the act of seizing or fastening onto something.