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Answer: Abu Tammam
💡 In his line, Abu Tammam brought together the most famous symbols of heritage: the courage of Amr ibn Ma'dikarib, the generosity of Hatim, the forbearance of al-Ahnaf and the intelligence of Iyas.
Answer: Judge
💡 Iyas served as judge of Basra in the Umayyad era and was famous for his intelligence and insight in uncovering the truth, so people said: "Smarter than Iyas."
Answer: Al-Ablaq
💡 The fortress of al-Ablaq is in Tayma in the north of the Arabian Peninsula, while al-Khawarnaq and al-Sadir are palaces in al-Hira, and Ghumdan is a palace in Yemen.
Answer: The armor of Imru' al-Qais
💡 Imru' al-Qais left his armor in al-Samaw'al's keeping, and when al-Samaw'al was pressured to hand it over, he refused to betray the trust, so people said: "More loyal than al-Samaw'al."
Answer: Adi
💡 Adi ibn Hatim al-Ta'i came to the Prophet ﷺ and embraced Islam, and like his father he was a chief among his tribe, Tayy.
Answer: "Give the bow to its maker" ↔ Giving a task to the expert in it, "Better to hear of al-Mu'aydi than to see him" ↔ A person whose fame is bigger than their reality, "It is you I mean, but listen, O neighbor" ↔ Advice said to one person but meant for someone else, "Like one seeking refuge from the hot sand in the fire" ↔ Escaping one problem into a worse one
💡 The bow maker knows the bow best; the king heard much about al-Mu'aydi, but when he saw him he found him less than what he had heard; and ramda' is the hot sand, while fire is even hotter.
Answer: Al-Nu'man asked for a magnificent palace to be built, then Sinnimar built the palace of al-Khawarnaq, then Al-Nu'man admired the palace after it was finished, then Sinnimar was thrown from the top of the palace
💡 Sinnimar built so skillfully that al-Khawarnaq became legendary, but his reward was death, so his name became a proverb for repaying kindness with harm.
Answer: The lion could not overcome three united bulls, then The other two bulls stayed silent, so the lion ate the white bull, then The lion caught the second bull alone and ate it, then The last bull said: I was eaten the day the white bull was eaten
💡 When the bulls abandoned their first companion, they all became weak, so the proverb warns against division and leaving a brother alone in the face of danger.
Answer: "Every occasion has its fitting words", "If speech is silver, then silence is golden"
💡 Every situation has words that suit it, and silence is sometimes more precious than speech, just as gold is more precious than silver.
Answer: "The sword came before the blame", "In the summer you wasted the milk"
💡 Al-'adhl means blame, and blame is useless after the sword has struck; and the woman with the milk wasted her chance when it was there.
Answer: "Your hands tied it and your mouth blew it up", "Baraqish brought harm upon herself"
💡 "Awkata" means they tied the mouth of the water skin and "fuka" means your mouth blew it up, so you are the cause of what happened to you; and Baraqish brought harm on herself and her people by her own action.
Answer: "Before the shooting, the quivers are filled", "A dirham of prevention is better than a qintar of cure"
💡 Kana'in are quivers filled with arrows before shooting, and prevention stops illness before we need a lot of treatment.
Answer: "I have neither a she-camel nor a camel in it", "I was eaten the day the white bull was eaten", "Every steed (jawad) stumbles"
💡 The she-camel, camel and bull are well known, and the jawad is a purebred horse, while the sword and contentment are not animals.
Answer: False ✖
💡 It means lies are quickly exposed, like a short rope that cannot take its owner far.
Answer: True ✔
💡 It is said to a returning traveler or to someone who comes back to useful work, meaning your return is even more praiseworthy than your start.
Answer: True ✔
💡 Sinnimar built a magnificent palace for al-Nu'man, and his reward was being thrown from the top of it, so the proverb came to describe repaying a favor with harm.
Answer: False ✖
💡 It means the opposite: we try the easy solutions first and only turn to the harshest solution at the end.
Answer: False ✖
💡 It means that someone who does not have something cannot give it to others, like someone without knowledge cannot teach it.
Answer: True ✔
💡 The full line is: "And if you honor the base, he becomes defiant," and it is one of al-Mutanabbi's most famous wise sayings.
Answer: True ✔
💡 The ra'id is the one his people send to look for water and pasture for them; he does not lie to them because his fate is tied to theirs.
