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Saruja and Lam. If its owner wishes, he will ride it, and it will be a riding beast, and its mother. And his saying "bat" means "majroor" (genitive), the intended meaning is "and the horse spent the night with its saddle and tack on it." They used to do this with pride. As for the saying of Al-Qaraq 'Aifi, he meant "wherever he saw his horses approaching it, they would bring it closer to themselves because of its speed, and it is the one that is close." And his saying: "Ghabbir Sal" means "not free." Another saying is that this horse is trained for hunting, and it is a horse that has thrown off its saddle and is taken by the wind, and its mother has not been able to catch it, so it grazes in exhaustion, and this harms it. "If you turn your back to it, it is a lean, long-tailed sheep, not a castrated one." "If you turn your back to it, its body is from behind it, and the lean one is the one with a long tail, and the castrated one is the one whose testicles are on the side." "If you turn your back to it, it will block the space between your legs." "Its hair is short, its mane is so long it almost touches the ground, and that is why it is made small. And making something small in descriptions means bringing it closer. You say 'Bakr is far from 'Amr', and it is possible that the distance between them is far or close. I said 'Khalif, the distance between them is close.' And similarly, if he said 'lean on the ground' in this verse, it would imply distance from the ground, and that would be a flaw." "I will show you the lightning, its flash is like hands in the darkness of the night." The flash is lightning, and the darkness is the night. It is said that the lightning flashed and obstructed, and it was originally "hamaw" (heat), so the waw was changed to ya, and everything that obstructs has "hamaw." The meaning of the verse is that they used to look at the lightning where it flashed and they would count its flashes, and they would know that water was coming. So they would head to that place. Another interpretation is that he meant "look at this lightning, meaning look at it with me," so its horses would come from a direction he desired, because that is...

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