«انْقِرَاضُ جِيلِ الْكِرَامِ وَمَيْلُ الْأَيَّامِ إِلَى اللِّئَامِ»
The passing of the generous and the turning of the age toward the mean-spirited.
The judge laments a decline in patronage. Kirām / liʾām contrasts generous people with the base or ungenerous; inqirāḍ conveys disappearance.
This is a pointed moral lament in an ornate literary setting, not a statistical assessment of an entire historical period. Parallel phrases give the judgment rhetorical force.
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The Alexandrian Maqāmah — The Judge’s Mercy, Abū Zayd’s Secret and Final Regret
«انْقِرَاضُ جِيلِ الْكِرَامِ وَمَيْلُ الْأَيَّامِ إِلَى اللِّئَامِ»
The passing of the generous and the turning of the age toward the mean-spirited.
The judge laments a decline in patronage. Kirām / liʾām contrasts generous people with the base or ungenerous; inqirāḍ conveys disappearance.
This is a pointed moral lament in an ornate literary setting, not a statistical assessment of an entire historical period. Parallel phrases give the judgment rhetorical force.