Ṭarafah: Character, Lineage, the Sword, and the Camels (Verses 79–88)

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• What does fa-dharnī chiefly request in verse 79?
• What is Ḍarghad in this verse?
• What does nāʾiyan express?
• Why is law shāʾa rabbī repeated in verse 80?
• Why are Qays ibn Khālid and ʿAmr ibn Marthad named?
• How should fa-aṣbaḥtu dhā mālin kathīrin be read?
• What does dhā mean in dhā mālin?
• What status is expressed by banūn kirāmun sādah?
• Which best captures al-rajul al-ḍarb?
• What quality does khashāsh convey?
• What is ka- in ka-raʾs al-ḥayyah?
• What is the primary point of the snake-head simile?
• What does fa-ālaytu mean?
• What does lā yanfakku stress in verse 83?
• What is the form of al-shafratayn?
• What does muhannad describe?
• What contrast do al-badʾ and al-ʿawd create?
• What is the grammatical subject of kafā ... al-badʾu?
• What contrast is made with laysa bi-muʿḍid?
• How is the sword presented in akhī thiqah?
• What is requested by mahlan in verse 85?
• Which is the closest sense of qadī?
• What does ibtadara al-qawmu al-silāḥ depict?
• What does manīʿan describe here?
• What does bi-qāʾimihi refer to?
• What does barkin hujūdin describe?
• What is ʿaḍbin mujarradin?
• What does kahāh refer to in verse 88?
• What does ʿaqīlatu shaykhin emphasize?
• What does shaykh ka-l-wabīl yalandad suggest?