«يَتَقَلَّبُ فِي قَوَالِبِ الِانْتِسَابِ وَيَخْبِطُ فِي أَسَالِيبِ الِاكْتِسَابِ»
He shifted among molds of lineage and improvised different ways of earning.
The two parallel phrases pair social affiliation with earning tactics. Their grammatical symmetry makes shifts of ancestry and shifts of livelihood look like parts of one adaptable performance.
The near-echo of intisāb and iktisāb underscores how claimed identity can serve economic ends. The narrative reports the performance; it does not independently verify each claimed ancestry.