أَسُكَّانَ نُعْمَانِ الْأَرَاكِ تَيَقَّنُوا
بِأَنَّكُمْ فِي رُبْعِ قَلْبِي سُكَّانُ
O dwellers of Nuʿmān al-Arāk, be certain that you too inhabit a quarter of my heart.
The residents are physically distant, yet emotionally present to the poet. He therefore addresses them with vocative hamzah, ordinarily used for the near.
The repeated word “dwellers” first identifies the inhabitants of a real place and then creates a figurative home for them in the poet's heart. This illustrates treating the distant as near.