«إِلَى أَنْ جَدَحَتْ لَهُ يَدُ الْإِمْلَاقِ كَأْسَ الْفِرَاقِ»
Until poverty’s hand stirred a cup of separation for him.
Poverty is endowed with a hand and separation becomes a prepared drink. The two metaphors reinforce one another: economic distress causes a rupture in companionship.
The verb for mixing a drink supplies movement to the picture. The line therefore dramatizes causality rather than claiming that poverty literally carries a cup.
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Rhetoric and Narrative Effect — Advanced Practicum Across Ten Maqāmāt
«إِلَى أَنْ جَدَحَتْ لَهُ يَدُ الْإِمْلَاقِ كَأْسَ الْفِرَاقِ»
Until poverty’s hand stirred a cup of separation for him.
Poverty is endowed with a hand and separation becomes a prepared drink. The two metaphors reinforce one another: economic distress causes a rupture in companionship.
The verb for mixing a drink supplies movement to the picture. The line therefore dramatizes causality rather than claiming that poverty literally carries a cup.