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[1] In fact, the aim of the poet here is to say that the condition of the addressee’s life, from the moral and material point of view, had been worse in the past, and that the poet and his tribe have given him the best means of leading their lives. But as the result of this improved condition the addressee has completely lost himself and forgotten his past condition and thinks that he had had this kind of life previously. Now, Amīr al-mu’minīn wants to convey the same idea here to the Quraysh as Fatimah صلى الله عليه وعلى آله وسلم the holy daughter of the Holy Prophet said in her speech on Fadak: (O People) ... You were on the brink of the pit of Hell Fire (Qur’ān, 3:103). You were as worthless as the mouthful of water. You were minority like the handful greedy and a spark of the hasty. You were as down-trodden as the dust under feet. You drank dirty water. You ate untanned skin. You were abased and condemned. But Allāh has rescued you through my father Muḥammad صلى الله عليه وعلى آله وسلم ...