LessonsLabīd ibn Rabīʿah: The Departing Caravan, Memory of Nawār and Distant Destinations (Verses 11–19)Quiz

عَرِيَتْ وَكَانَ بِهَا الْجَمِيعُ فَأَبْكَرُوا ۞ مِنْهَا وَغُودِرَ نُؤْيُهَا وَثُمَامُهَا
The place was stripped of its inhabitants, though all had once been there; they departed early, leaving the camp’s water-channel and the remaining thumām vegetation behind.

ʿAriyat means that the place has become bare of what it once contained. Al-jamīʿ points to the whole community, whose presence is now memory. Al-nuʾy is a small earthen water-channel or protective bank around a tent, not an ordinary well.

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Verse 11: what remains—nuʾy and thumām

Labīd ibn Rabīʿah: The Departing Caravan, Memory of Nawār and Distant Destinations (Verses 11–19)

عَرِيَتْ وَكَانَ بِهَا الْجَمِيعُ فَأَبْكَرُوا ۞ مِنْهَا وَغُودِرَ نُؤْيُهَا وَثُمَامُهَا
The place was stripped of its inhabitants, though all had once been there; they departed early, leaving the camp’s water-channel and the remaining thumām vegetation behind.

ʿAriyat means that the place has become bare of what it once contained. Al-jamīʿ points to the whole community, whose presence is now memory. Al-nuʾy is a small earthen water-channel or protective bank around a tent, not an ordinary well.