When the companion stripped her of her clothes, she leaned on him, soft and yielding. "Stripped her of her clothes" means to take her clothes from her. From this is the saying "qutam from 'aziz" meaning from one who overcomes, one is stripped. "Soft and yielding" refers to the weak and soft. It is also said, "He is 'ashi on his hunah," meaning on his slackness. From this is the saying: And the rough-natured, coarse-skinned. He says, "When the companion strips her of her clothes, she leans on him, slack." "Not barefoot of nature, the Qutbi." The intended meaning is "stripped of her clothes."

The young ones on it, with what they reckoned of softness and flowing. "Al-Haqf" is what is curved of sand and dunes. "Al-Niqa" is from the dunes. It is also narrated as "Da'as." "Al-Niqa" and "Al-Da'as" are small mounds. The singular is "Da'sah." "Al-Niqa" is larger than that. And "Al-Walidan" "Small ones." And his saying, "they reckoned of softness." "They are two breeds." "Two breeds." "Hard." "He walks like the flowing of a dune, leaning. It is dug into, and it is giving way. He strikes the pillars with the flowing sand.

The young ones walk on it, from its hardness, with what they reckoned, meaning what suffices them. And the saying of Al-'Ajaj: "To a flowing, and it is a dune, and it is hard." "And it is hard." "Soft." "The flank is known, and it is the flank and the ribs."