«فَطَفِقْتُ أَجُوبُ طُرُقَاتِهَا»
Then I began wandering through its streets.
Ṭafiqtu is one of the verbs of beginning (afʿāl al-shurūʿ). Its subject is the first-person suffix, while the present-tense clause beginning with ajābu serves as its predicate. This arrangement marks the onset of an unfolding activity.
The object ṭuruqātihā refers to the city’s streets; the attached pronoun points back to the place already mentioned. The opening fāʾ connects poverty with the search that follows, turning the clause into the next stage of a causal narrative.