«فَجَرَّدْتُ لَهُ دِينَارًا آخَرَ وَقُلْتُ لَهُ: هَلْ لَكَ فِي أَنْ تَذُمَّهُ ثُمَّ تَضُمَّهُ؟»
I drew out another dinar and asked whether he would condemn it and then take possession of it.
The near-rhyming verbs tadhummahu / taḍummahu juxtapose denunciation with acquisition. The question challenges the poet to produce criticism of the very item he hopes to receive.
Having just heard an extravagant panegyric, the audience now encounters its opposite: a poem of blame. This reversal is the episode’s central literary trick.