فَصَوَائِقُ إِنْ أَيْمَنَتْ فَمَظِنَّةٌ ۞ فِيهَا وِحَافُ الْقَهْرِ أَوْ طِلْخَامُهَا
If she has gone southward, she may be sought in the region of Ṣawāʾiq, near the margins of al-Qahr, or at the place called Ṭilkhām.
In aymanat introduces a condition concerning travel toward the south/Yemen. Fa-maẓinnah fīhā suggests a likely place to look, not a verified present location. The sequence of Ṣawāʾiq, al-Qahr and Ṭilkhām expands the scale of the journey and the speaker’s uncertainty.
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Labīd ibn Rabīʿah: The Departing Caravan, Memory of Nawār and Distant Destinations (Verses 11–19)
فَصَوَائِقُ إِنْ أَيْمَنَتْ فَمَظِنَّةٌ ۞ فِيهَا وِحَافُ الْقَهْرِ أَوْ طِلْخَامُهَا
If she has gone southward, she may be sought in the region of Ṣawāʾiq, near the margins of al-Qahr, or at the place called Ṭilkhām.
In aymanat introduces a condition concerning travel toward the south/Yemen. Fa-maẓinnah fīhā suggests a likely place to look, not a verified present location. The sequence of Ṣawāʾiq, al-Qahr and Ṭilkhām expands the scale of the journey and the speaker’s uncertainty.