«إِنَّا لِلَّهِ وَأُفَوِّضُ أَمْرِي إِلَى اللَّهِ»
We belong to God, and I entrust my affair to God.
On hearing of the loss, the elder first invokes religious trust, then turns to a poem of complaint. Ufawwiḍu is the first-person imperfect of form II, meaning “I entrust.” The shift from invocation to poetic lament is part of the scene’s dramatic progression.
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The Barqaʿīd Maqāmah: A Missing Slip, a Silver Coin and Abū Zayd Revealed
«إِنَّا لِلَّهِ وَأُفَوِّضُ أَمْرِي إِلَى اللَّهِ»
We belong to God, and I entrust my affair to God.
On hearing of the loss, the elder first invokes religious trust, then turns to a poem of complaint. Ufawwiḍu is the first-person imperfect of form II, meaning “I entrust.” The shift from invocation to poetic lament is part of the scene’s dramatic progression.