«وَأَعْلَمُ عِلْمَ الْيَوْمِ وَالْأَمْسِ قَبْلَهُ»
I know what belongs to today and to yesterday before it;
«وَلَكِنَّنِي عَنْ عِلْمِ مَا فِي غَدٍ عَمِ»
but I am blind to the knowledge of tomorrow.
The verse surveys past, present, and future. The poet claims knowledge of the first two and acknowledges ignorance of the third, thereby completing the time-based division. The word ʿamī expresses ignorance here, not a literal medical statement about eyesight.
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Semantic Embellishments II: Gathering, Differentiation, Division, Hyperbole, and Further Devices
«وَأَعْلَمُ عِلْمَ الْيَوْمِ وَالْأَمْسِ قَبْلَهُ»
I know what belongs to today and to yesterday before it;
«وَلَكِنَّنِي عَنْ عِلْمِ مَا فِي غَدٍ عَمِ»
but I am blind to the knowledge of tomorrow.
The verse surveys past, present, and future. The poet claims knowledge of the first two and acknowledges ignorance of the third, thereby completing the time-based division. The word ʿamī expresses ignorance here, not a literal medical statement about eyesight.