«وَأُقِلُّكَ وَتَسْتَقِلُّنِي»
Must I carry your burden while you treat me as insignificant?
Uqilluka concerns lifting or supporting someone. Tastaqillunī here carries the sense of treating another as small or of little worth. The near-identical verbal shapes create a pointed rhetorical contrast.
The rhetorical question opposes service on one side to contempt on the other. Where the first speaker emphasized the extent of his generosity, the second asks what response that generosity receives.
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The Dimyāṭī Maqāmah: Justice and Boundaries in Companionship
«وَأُقِلُّكَ وَتَسْتَقِلُّنِي»
Must I carry your burden while you treat me as insignificant?
Uqilluka concerns lifting or supporting someone. Tastaqillunī here carries the sense of treating another as small or of little worth. The near-identical verbal shapes create a pointed rhetorical contrast.
The rhetorical question opposes service on one side to contempt on the other. Where the first speaker emphasized the extent of his generosity, the second asks what response that generosity receives.