شَاقَتْكَ ظُعْنُ الْحَيِّ حِينَ تَحَمَّلُوا ۞ فَتَكَنَّسُوا قُطُنًا تَصِرُّ خِيَامُهَا
The women travelling with the tribe awakened longing as they loaded their belongings and set off, settling into covered litters whose tentlike coverings creaked.
Ẓuʿn al-ḥayy means the tribal women travelling in their litters, or the caravan carrying them. Taḥammalū describes loading and departing. Taṣirru khiyāmuhā adds the creak of the moving tentlike enclosures: sound becomes part of the scene.
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Labīd ibn Rabīʿah: The Departing Caravan, Memory of Nawār and Distant Destinations (Verses 11–19)
شَاقَتْكَ ظُعْنُ الْحَيِّ حِينَ تَحَمَّلُوا ۞ فَتَكَنَّسُوا قُطُنًا تَصِرُّ خِيَامُهَا
The women travelling with the tribe awakened longing as they loaded their belongings and set off, settling into covered litters whose tentlike coverings creaked.
Ẓuʿn al-ḥayy means the tribal women travelling in their litters, or the caravan carrying them. Taḥammalū describes loading and departing. Taṣirru khiyāmuhā adds the creak of the moving tentlike enclosures: sound becomes part of the scene.