فَدَخَلْتُهَا خَاوِيَ الْوِفَاضِ
So I entered the city with my provision-bag empty.
The empty provision-bag immediately gives the arrival a pressure of need. The phrase follows entry into the city, so location and vulnerability arrive together. The reader is asked not merely to picture a traveller in a street but to understand what the traveller lacks.
Such details shape later interpretations of charity, invitations and persuasive speech. An offer that might seem casual to a comfortable spectator can be consequential to a hungry visitor. This is economical exposition: a brief physical image establishes conditions under which later choices become intelligible.