«وَأَوْدَى النَّاطِقُ وَالصَّامِتُ»
Both livestock and inanimate assets were lost.
The literal meanings “speaking” and “silent” are insufficient in a passage about vanished wealth. Here the pair distinguishes living property, especially livestock, from inanimate assets. A wholly literal rendering could be mistaken for a statement about people.
An effective translation identifies both kinds of property, then explains the antithetical wording. “Everything was lost” conveys the scope but discards the striking pair. The fuller translation preserves both the financial sense and the literary contrast.
Translation exercise
List literal wording and contextual property types; decide which belongs in the running translation.
ExpressionContextual senseal-nāṭiqLivestockal-ṣāmitInanimate property