19 Preface قالوا طائِرُكُم مَعَكُم ۚ أَئِن ذُكِّرتُم ۚ بَل أَنتُم قَومٌ مُسرِفونَAli Quli QaraiThey said, ‘Your bad omens attend you. What! If you are admonished … .1 Rather you are a profligate lot.’ Ellipsis. The phrase omitted is ‘do you take it for a bad omen?!’