He says here ‘Ask the horses’, which is a literary device in Arabic called ‘Majaz’. It implies ‘Ask the riders on the horses’. Malik was the uncle of Antara, who refused to marry his daughter ‘Abla’ to him. Here he addresses her in his poem, as he does in many of his poems.
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The Ajrumiyyah is one of the most popular texts used to teach beginners throughout the Arab world. It deals with the foundations of al-I’rab (grammatical analysis).
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