Zuhayr ibn Abī Sulmā: Age, Mortality, Honor, and Keeping Promises (Verses 43–52)
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- What does yaʿqilūnahu mean in verse 43?
- What does ṣaḥīḥāt māl describe?
- What scene appears in ṭāliʿāt bi-makhrim?
- What nuance does ṭaraqat add in verse 44?
- What characterizes dhū al-ḍighn?
- How should tablahu be read here?
- What does saʾimtu takālīf al-ḥayāh express?
- How should lā abā laka be understood here?
- What is the rhetorical work of ʿami in the line on tomorrow?
- What does wa-lākinnanī do in verse 47?
- What image is used for death in khabṭ ʿashwāʾ?
- What is the grammatical role of tuṣib in man tuṣib tumithu?
- Which grammatical description fits yuʿammar?
- What literary device arises from tuṣib / tukhṭiʾ?
- Which sense of yuṣāniʿ best fits this context?
- What is conveyed by being bitten by fangs and trampled by a hoof?
- What role does al-maʿrūf play before ʿirḍ?
- What is the form and sense of yushtam?
- What is dhā in dhā faḍlin?
- What failure is criticized in fa-yabkhal bi-faḍlihi ʿalā qawmihi?
- What social result does yustaghnā ʿanhu indicate?
- What moral principle is emphasized by man yūfi lā yudhmam?
- What does lā yatajamjam mean here?
- How should muṭmaʾinn al-birr be understood?
- What links the reflections on age, knowledge and death in verses 46–48?
- What is the main literary effect of Zuhayr’s repeated man-clauses?
- How does the claim about tomorrow connect to the death simile?
- Which idea becomes clearer when verses 50 and 51 are read together?
- How does the passage move from verse 43 to verse 52?
- What combination of conduct emerges from verses 49 and 52?