«أُقَلِّبُ فِيهِ أَجْفَانِي كَأَنِّي أَعُدُّ بِهَا عَلَى الدَّهْرِ الذُّنُوبَا»
I turn my eyelids through it as though counting time’s offenses with them.
The immediate subject is the length of the night and the speaker’s sleeplessness. Yet the image of counting the “sins of time” quietly introduces reproach against fate or the age.
The complaint is not a separate explanatory claim; it is embedded within the image of wakefulness, which is the hallmark of idmaj.
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Ilm al-Badiʿ: The First Nine Semantic Rhetorical Devices
«أُقَلِّبُ فِيهِ أَجْفَانِي كَأَنِّي أَعُدُّ بِهَا عَلَى الدَّهْرِ الذُّنُوبَا»
I turn my eyelids through it as though counting time’s offenses with them.
The immediate subject is the length of the night and the speaker’s sleeplessness. Yet the image of counting the “sins of time” quietly introduces reproach against fate or the age.
The complaint is not a separate explanatory claim; it is embedded within the image of wakefulness, which is the hallmark of idmaj.