«كَأَنَّ مُثَارَ النَّقْعِ فَوْقَ رُءُوسِنَا وَأَسْيَافَنَا لَيْلٌ تَهَاوَى كَوَاكِبُهُ»
The dust stirred above our heads and our swords seem like a night in which stars are falling.
Subject: the battle scene made by dust and swords.
Comparator: a dark night with bright falling stars.
Marker: kaʾanna.
Respect: the coherent pattern formed by many shining moving objects within a dark background.
Classification: tamthīl with a composite respect. Reducing the similarity to “brightness” or “darkness” alone loses the organized image.