وَعَجَّلْتَ مُعَالَجَةَ دَائِكَ
And why have you not hastened to treat your illness?
ʿAjjalta means to hurry rather than delay. Muʿālajah is treatment, and dāʾ is an illness. Here illness is an image for moral negligence or corruption, not a diagnosis of bodily disease.
The previous phrase pictured guidance as a road; this one presents improvement as medical treatment. Both metaphors call for purposeful action instead of passive recognition.
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The Ṣanʿāʾ Maqāmah: Guidance, Mortality, and Evasive Responses
وَعَجَّلْتَ مُعَالَجَةَ دَائِكَ
And why have you not hastened to treat your illness?
ʿAjjalta means to hurry rather than delay. Muʿālajah is treatment, and dāʾ is an illness. Here illness is an image for moral negligence or corruption, not a diagnosis of bodily disease.
The previous phrase pictured guidance as a road; this one presents improvement as medical treatment. Both metaphors call for purposeful action instead of passive recognition.