«وَإِلَّا فَرَمَى اللَّهُ جَفْنِي بِالْعَمَشِ، وَخَدِّي بِالنَّمَشِ»
Otherwise, may God afflict my eyelid with eye trouble and my cheek with spots.
The oath becomes a self-directed imprecation. ʿAmash refers to impaired or inflamed eyes; namash to speckled facial markings. The earlier catalogue of attractive features is reversed into an extravagant catalogue of disfigurement.
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The Raḥbiyyah Maqāmah — An Accusation, an Unusual Oath and a Hundred-Mithqāl Offer
«وَإِلَّا فَرَمَى اللَّهُ جَفْنِي بِالْعَمَشِ، وَخَدِّي بِالنَّمَشِ»
Otherwise, may God afflict my eyelid with eye trouble and my cheek with spots.
The oath becomes a self-directed imprecation. ʿAmash refers to impaired or inflamed eyes; namash to speckled facial markings. The earlier catalogue of attractive features is reversed into an extravagant catalogue of disfigurement.