لَكِنَّ قَوْسَ الْخُطُوبِ تَرْشُقُنِي بِمُصِيبَاتٍ مِنْ هُنَا وَهُنَا
But the bow of calamities shoots afflictions at me from every direction.
Qaws al-khuṭūb personifies misfortunes as an archer. Tarshuqnī continues the archery image, while “from here and there” conveys repeated blows. An abstract condition becomes a vivid, active scene.
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The Maʿarran Maqāmah — The Needle, Its Compensation, and the Judge’s Dinar
لَكِنَّ قَوْسَ الْخُطُوبِ تَرْشُقُنِي بِمُصِيبَاتٍ مِنْ هُنَا وَهُنَا
But the bow of calamities shoots afflictions at me from every direction.
Qaws al-khuṭūb personifies misfortunes as an archer. Tarshuqnī continues the archery image, while “from here and there” conveys repeated blows. An abstract condition becomes a vivid, active scene.