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

فَذَرْنِي وَخُلُقِي إِنَّنِي لَكَ شَاكِرٌ / وَلَوْ حَلَّ بَيْتِي نَائِيًا عَنْ ضَرْغَدِ
Leave me to my own character: I remain grateful to you, even if my home is far from the mountain of Ḍarghad.

Fa-dharnī expresses a firm request to be left to his own ways. Ḍarghad is named as a mountain; the distance in the second hemistich is therefore geographical, not temporal.

The concessive wa-law imagines even a remote dwelling while preserving his profession of gratitude. The tone shifts from the earlier grievance to the speaker’s assertion about his own conduct.

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Verse 79: character and distance

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

فَذَرْنِي وَخُلُقِي إِنَّنِي لَكَ شَاكِرٌ / وَلَوْ حَلَّ بَيْتِي نَائِيًا عَنْ ضَرْغَدِ
Leave me to my own character: I remain grateful to you, even if my home is far from the mountain of Ḍarghad.

Fa-dharnī expresses a firm request to be left to his own ways. Ḍarghad is named as a mountain; the distance in the second hemistich is therefore geographical, not temporal.

The concessive wa-law imagines even a remote dwelling while preserving his profession of gratitude. The tone shifts from the earlier grievance to the speaker’s assertion about his own conduct.