LessonsLabīd ibn Rabīʿah: The Bereaved Wild Cow, Rain and the Hunting Dogs (Verses 36–53)Quiz

فَبِتِلْكَ إِذْ رَقَصَ اللَّوَامِعُ بِالضُّحَى وَاجْتَابَ أَرْدِيَةَ السَّرَابِ إِكَامُهَا
Thus the she-camel is compared to that wild cow amid the shimmering heat of morning, when the hills seem clothed in veils of mirage.

Fa-bitilka returns from the extended comparison to the original she-camel. Lawāmiʿ are bright flashes, sarāb mirage, and ikām small hills.

In the hills put on the robes of mirage, the shimmering haze is clothing and the hills its wearers. This figurative landscape concludes the wild-cow comparison.

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Mirage veils and the return to the she-camel

Labīd ibn Rabīʿah: The Bereaved Wild Cow, Rain and the Hunting Dogs (Verses 36–53)

فَبِتِلْكَ إِذْ رَقَصَ اللَّوَامِعُ بِالضُّحَى وَاجْتَابَ أَرْدِيَةَ السَّرَابِ إِكَامُهَا
Thus the she-camel is compared to that wild cow amid the shimmering heat of morning, when the hills seem clothed in veils of mirage.

Fa-bitilka returns from the extended comparison to the original she-camel. Lawāmiʿ are bright flashes, sarāb mirage, and ikām small hills.

In the hills put on the robes of mirage, the shimmering haze is clothing and the hills its wearers. This figurative landscape concludes the wild-cow comparison.