«وَلَا أَغْرِسُ الْأَيَادِيَ فِي أَرْضِ الْأَعَادِي»
I do not plant acts of kindness in the soil of enemies.
Ayādī literally means hands but can also mean favours or benefactions. Aghrisu means “I plant,” and arḍ is earth or ground. The line evokes gardening but concerns giving and its effects.
The speaker constructs a sustained metaphor: benefactions are seeds, relationships are soil. In his view, active hostility offers poor ground for cultivating favour. That is his rhetorical stance, not proof that reconciliation never succeeds.