فَانْهَضْ لِلِاكْتِسَابِ بِصِنَاعَتِكَ وَاجْتَنِ ثَمَرَةَ بَرَاعَتِكَ
Get up, earn through your trade, and gather the fruit of your skill.
Fanhaḍ and ijtanِ are imperatives: rise and reap. Ṣināʿah means craft or trade, while barāʿah is excellence or skill within it.
The fruit image recalls al-Ḥārith’s earlier desire to gather thimār from his labours. The same metaphor now makes the husband’s promised competence a testable question.
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The Alexandrian Maqāmah — A Traveler’s Ambition and a Complaint before the Judge
فَانْهَضْ لِلِاكْتِسَابِ بِصِنَاعَتِكَ وَاجْتَنِ ثَمَرَةَ بَرَاعَتِكَ
Get up, earn through your trade, and gather the fruit of your skill.
Fanhaḍ and ijtanِ are imperatives: rise and reap. Ṣināʿah means craft or trade, while barāʿah is excellence or skill within it.
The fruit image recalls al-Ḥārith’s earlier desire to gather thimār from his labours. The same metaphor now makes the husband’s promised competence a testable question.