فَكُلًّا أَرَاهُمْ أَصْبَحُوا يَعْقِلُونَهُ ۞ صَحِيحَاتِ مَالٍ طَالِعَاتٍ بِمَخْرِمِ
I see them paying compensation for each slain person with healthy she-camels, climbing over the mountain passes.
Yaʿqilūnahu refers to paying blood compensation, not to intellectual understanding. “Ṣaḥīḥāt māl” describes sound, valuable animals; “ṭāliʿāt bi-makhrim” pictures them climbing a mountain passage. The imagery makes reconciliation material: the peacemakers incur a real economic obligation.
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Zuhayr ibn Abī Sulmā: Age, Mortality, Honor, and Keeping Promises (Verses 43–52)
فَكُلًّا أَرَاهُمْ أَصْبَحُوا يَعْقِلُونَهُ ۞ صَحِيحَاتِ مَالٍ طَالِعَاتٍ بِمَخْرِمِ
I see them paying compensation for each slain person with healthy she-camels, climbing over the mountain passes.
Yaʿqilūnahu refers to paying blood compensation, not to intellectual understanding. “Ṣaḥīḥāt māl” describes sound, valuable animals; “ṭāliʿāt bi-makhrim” pictures them climbing a mountain passage. The imagery makes reconciliation material: the peacemakers incur a real economic obligation.