«لَا أَتَّقِي نُوَبَ الزَّمَانِ وَلَا حَوَادِثَهُ الْمُلِيمَةَ»
I did not guard against the reversals of time or its painful blows.
Nuwab are sudden reversals or calamities; ḥawādith events or misfortunes. Attaqī means to take precautions against something.
The statement dramatizes former security and confidence, not the literal absence of all risk. The poet recalls a time when misfortune seemed remote, creating emotional distance from the hardship now being expressed.
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The Marāghah Maqāmah: Literary Triumph, Nostalgia and Refusal of Office
«لَا أَتَّقِي نُوَبَ الزَّمَانِ وَلَا حَوَادِثَهُ الْمُلِيمَةَ»
I did not guard against the reversals of time or its painful blows.
Nuwab are sudden reversals or calamities; ḥawādith events or misfortunes. Attaqī means to take precautions against something.
The statement dramatizes former security and confidence, not the literal absence of all risk. The poet recalls a time when misfortune seemed remote, creating emotional distance from the hardship now being expressed.