أَرَى جَثْوَتَيْنِ مِنْ تُرَابٍ عَلَيْهِمَا
صَفَائِحُ صُمٌّ مِنْ صَفِيحٍ مُنَضَّدِ
Meaning: I see two mounds of earth, each covered by hard slabs placed in orderly layers.
Jathwatayn means two heaps or mounds; ṣafāʾiḥ are slabs, ṣumm implies solid, unyielding material, and munaḍḍad means stacked in layers. The previous verse’s comparison now becomes a tangible image: similar earth and stone over the graves of people who lived very differently.
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Ṭarafah: Three Pleasures of Life and the Certainty of Death (Verses 55–67)
أَرَى جَثْوَتَيْنِ مِنْ تُرَابٍ عَلَيْهِمَا
صَفَائِحُ صُمٌّ مِنْ صَفِيحٍ مُنَضَّدِ
Meaning: I see two mounds of earth, each covered by hard slabs placed in orderly layers.
Jathwatayn means two heaps or mounds; ṣafāʾiḥ are slabs, ṣumm implies solid, unyielding material, and munaḍḍad means stacked in layers. The previous verse’s comparison now becomes a tangible image: similar earth and stone over the graves of people who lived very differently.