Arabic roots often develop multiple meanings. ʿAqala may relate to reasoning, but yaʿqilūnahu in verse 43 concerns paying blood compensation. The reference to sound she-camels confirms this legal-social sense: the animals form a concrete payment, not an intellectual act.
Makhrim is a mountain passage. Ṭāliʿāt, a feminine plural active participle, describes the female camels climbing upward. Movement, number and cost make the settlement visible.
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Zuhayr ibn Abī Sulmā: Age, Mortality, Honor, and Keeping Promises (Verses 43–52)
Arabic roots often develop multiple meanings. ʿAqala may relate to reasoning, but yaʿqilūnahu in verse 43 concerns paying blood compensation. The reference to sound she-camels confirms this legal-social sense: the animals form a concrete payment, not an intellectual act.
Makhrim is a mountain passage. Ṭāliʿāt, a feminine plural active participle, describes the female camels climbing upward. Movement, number and cost make the settlement visible.