LessonsṬarafah: Three Pleasures of Life and the Certainty of Death (Verses 55–67)Quiz

فَإِنْ كُنْتَ لَا تَسْتَطِيعُ دَفْعَ مَنِيَّتِي
فَدَعْنِي أُبَادِرْهَا بِمَا مَلَكَتْ يَدِي
Meaning: If you cannot ward off my death, leave me to take advantage of what I possess before death arrives.

Maniyyatī is the death allotted to the speaker, dafʿ denotes turning something away, and ubādirhā conveys acting first or hastening to meet a coming moment. The logic is conditional: the addressee cannot prevent death, so the speaker claims freedom to use his means now. He is expressing his own priorities, not claiming an actual escape from mortality.

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Verse 56: mortality cannot be turned away

Ṭarafah: Three Pleasures of Life and the Certainty of Death (Verses 55–67)

فَإِنْ كُنْتَ لَا تَسْتَطِيعُ دَفْعَ مَنِيَّتِي
فَدَعْنِي أُبَادِرْهَا بِمَا مَلَكَتْ يَدِي
Meaning: If you cannot ward off my death, leave me to take advantage of what I possess before death arrives.

Maniyyatī is the death allotted to the speaker, dafʿ denotes turning something away, and ubādirhā conveys acting first or hastening to meet a coming moment. The logic is conditional: the addressee cannot prevent death, so the speaker claims freedom to use his means now. He is expressing his own priorities, not claiming an actual escape from mortality.