“Or, are they saying that he is a Shaa’ir (poet) for whom we can wait a misfortune of time”.
- Recognises he is not a كاهن (Kaahin, fortune-teller) nor مجنون (Majnoon, insane). His speech and actions don’t match those profiles.
- Next tactic: accuse him of being “really good with words” — a poet — to undermine the source and weight of his message.
to wait or watch; to lie in wait for an opportunity.
- Conveys watchfulness and calculated delay — observing if/when something befalls.
doubt, disturbance, ominous uncertainty; can also mean calamity/misfortune.
- In Qur’anic usage: not mere intellectual doubt, but an unsettling, ominous unease.
- Also used for calamity or unexpected harm.
death; the trials and ups and downs of life that, over time, lead to one’s demise.
- From a root relating to cutting off — as in a cut rope.
“Let’s wait for some downturn in his fortune to afflict him.”
- Wait for time to “deal with him,” anticipating a fall in status as happens with poets.
- When he is gone, they expect his “poetry” to die with him and their troubles to end.
- Poets can rise high and then fall, even be forgotten. They frame him within that pattern, expecting this “phase” to pass.
- تَرَبُّص signals a watchful, opportunistic delay.
- رَيْب carries existential unease and even misfortune.
- الْمَنُون evokes death and the life-cuts of time.
- It tacitly concedes he is neither a fortune‑teller nor insane.
- It reframes his message as mere poetic talent to diminish its authority.
- A downturn or misfortune that ends his influence — expecting time to close his “chapter” like other poets.