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

فَأَصْبَحْتُ ذَا مَالٍ كَثِيرٍ وَزَارَنِي / بَنُونَ كِرَامٌ سَادَةٌ لِمُسَوَّدِ
Then I would possess much wealth and be visited by noble sons, leaders in a household held in honor.

Fa-aṣbaḥtu continues the imagined consequence of the condition in the previous verse. The line does not report wealth the poet actually acquired. Dhā mālin kathīrin means “possessing abundant property.”

Banūn kirāmun sādah pictures sons of noble standing and leadership. Wealth and distinguished descendants appear as linked signs of status in the poet’s imagined alternative life.

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Verse 81: wealth and descendants

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

فَأَصْبَحْتُ ذَا مَالٍ كَثِيرٍ وَزَارَنِي / بَنُونَ كِرَامٌ سَادَةٌ لِمُسَوَّدِ
Then I would possess much wealth and be visited by noble sons, leaders in a household held in honor.

Fa-aṣbaḥtu continues the imagined consequence of the condition in the previous verse. The line does not report wealth the poet actually acquired. Dhā mālin kathīrin means “possessing abundant property.”

Banūn kirāmun sādah pictures sons of noble standing and leadership. Wealth and distinguished descendants appear as linked signs of status in the poet’s imagined alternative life.