LessonsZuhayr ibn Abī Sulmā: Abandoned Dwellings, Recognition After Twenty Years, and Greeting the Ruins (Verses 1–6)Quiz

أَثَافِيَّ سُفْعًا فِي مُعَرَّسِ مِرْجَلٍ ۞ وَنُؤْيًا كَجِذْمِ الْحَوْضِ لَمْ يَتَثَلَّمِ
Meaning: I recognized the blackened hearthstones where a cooking pot had stood, and a nuʾy—the earthen channel or protective barrier near a tent—like the remaining base of a water trough, still not broken down.

Athāfī are the stones on which a cooking vessel rests; sufʿan describes their darkening from smoke; mirjal is the cooking pot; and nuʾy a small earthen channel or barrier directing rainwater away from a tent. Identification now rests on tangible, everyday remains.

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Verse 5: hearthstones and a channel around the tent

Zuhayr ibn Abī Sulmā: Abandoned Dwellings, Recognition After Twenty Years, and Greeting the Ruins (Verses 1–6)

أَثَافِيَّ سُفْعًا فِي مُعَرَّسِ مِرْجَلٍ ۞ وَنُؤْيًا كَجِذْمِ الْحَوْضِ لَمْ يَتَثَلَّمِ
Meaning: I recognized the blackened hearthstones where a cooking pot had stood, and a nuʾy—the earthen channel or protective barrier near a tent—like the remaining base of a water trough, still not broken down.

Athāfī are the stones on which a cooking vessel rests; sufʿan describes their darkening from smoke; mirjal is the cooking pot; and nuʾy a small earthen channel or barrier directing rainwater away from a tent. Identification now rests on tangible, everyday remains.