«فَهَذِهِ الْحِرْفَةُ الْمُشَارُ إِلَى»
This, then, is the profession I referred to,
«مَا كُنْتُ أَحْوِي بِهَا وَأَجْتَلِبُ»
By which I once gathered my livelihood.
He closes by asking the judge to hear his explanation just as he heard the wife, and to make the appropriate judgment.
«فَأْذَنْ لِشَرْحِي كَمَا أَذِنْتَ لَهَا»
Grant a hearing to my explanation as you granted one to hers.
The defence poem ends here. The judge’s further examination belongs to the next part of the narrative.
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The Alexandrian Maqāmah — The Husband’s Poetic Defence and the Craft of Eloquence
«فَهَذِهِ الْحِرْفَةُ الْمُشَارُ إِلَى»
This, then, is the profession I referred to,
«مَا كُنْتُ أَحْوِي بِهَا وَأَجْتَلِبُ»
By which I once gathered my livelihood.
He closes by asking the judge to hear his explanation just as he heard the wife, and to make the appropriate judgment.
«فَأْذَنْ لِشَرْحِي كَمَا أَذِنْتَ لَهَا»
Grant a hearing to my explanation as you granted one to hers.
The defence poem ends here. The judge’s further examination belongs to the next part of the narrative.