وَأَيْأَسَنِي مِنْ كُلِّ خَيْرٍ طَلَبْتُهُ
كَأَنَّا وَضَعْنَاهُ إِلَى رَمْسِ مُلْحَدِ
Meaning: He has made me despair of every benefit I sought from him, as though we had placed that hoped-for good in a grave containing a burial niche.
Ayʾasanī means “he deprived me of hope”; rams is a grave, and mulḥad evokes a grave with a side niche. An immaterial prospect—hope of receiving good—is imagined as something buried. The burial image makes the loss seem final and especially difficult to reverse.
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Ṭarafah: Mālik, Kinship Obligations, and Injustice from Relatives (Verses 68–78)
وَأَيْأَسَنِي مِنْ كُلِّ خَيْرٍ طَلَبْتُهُ
كَأَنَّا وَضَعْنَاهُ إِلَى رَمْسِ مُلْحَدِ
Meaning: He has made me despair of every benefit I sought from him, as though we had placed that hoped-for good in a grave containing a burial niche.
Ayʾasanī means “he deprived me of hope”; rams is a grave, and mulḥad evokes a grave with a side niche. An immaterial prospect—hope of receiving good—is imagined as something buried. The burial image makes the loss seem final and especially difficult to reverse.