«وَلَا يُقِيمُ عَلَى ضَيْمٍ يُرَادُ بِهِ»
No one accepts a humiliation imposed upon him,
«إِلَّا الأَذَلَّانِ عَيْرُ الْحَيِّ وَالْوَتِدُ»
except the two abject ones: the settlement's donkey and the tent peg.
«هَذَا عَلَى الْخَسْفِ مَرْبُوطٌ بِرُمَّتِهِ»
The former is kept tied in humiliation by its tether;
«وَذَا يُشَجُّ فَلَا يَرْثِي لَهُ أَحَدُ»
the latter is struck, yet no one pities it.
The donkey and the peg are first named together. Hadha and dha then assign a distinct condition to each. This illustrates division by distributing appropriate judgments among prior subjects, while “the two abject ones” also supplies a shared designation.