هَلِ الْأَزْمِنُ اللَّائِي مَضَيْنَ رَوَاجِعُ؟
Will the times that have gone ever return?
The question concerns former days. The speaker does not expect the past literally to return; the interrogative gives voice to longing and memory.
The initial “ayā manzilay Salmā” calls up surviving traces of the past, and the later question stresses the irreversibility of time. The overall rhetorical force is recollection rather than information-seeking.
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Nidāʾ: Definition, Eight Particles, Nearness and Distance, and Rhetorical Purposes
هَلِ الْأَزْمِنُ اللَّائِي مَضَيْنَ رَوَاجِعُ؟
Will the times that have gone ever return?
The question concerns former days. The speaker does not expect the past literally to return; the interrogative gives voice to longing and memory.
The initial “ayā manzilay Salmā” calls up surviving traces of the past, and the later question stresses the irreversibility of time. The overall rhetorical force is recollection rather than information-seeking.