«وَجَدْتُ الْجَوَّ قَدْ خَلَا، وَالشَّيْخَ وَالشَّيْخَةَ قَدْ أَجْفَلَا»
On returning I found the place empty: the old man and woman had fled.
The host returns promptly with the requested items, only to find both visitors gone. Khalā/ajfalā provides a matching rhyme for emptiness and flight. Furious, he pursues them, but they are as impossible to recover as someone plunged beneath water or lifted high into the sky. The seventh maqāmah closes on that vivid disappearance.
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The Barqaʿīd Maqāmah: Abū Zayd’s Sight, the Cleansing Ruse and His Escape
«وَجَدْتُ الْجَوَّ قَدْ خَلَا، وَالشَّيْخَ وَالشَّيْخَةَ قَدْ أَجْفَلَا»
On returning I found the place empty: the old man and woman had fled.
The host returns promptly with the requested items, only to find both visitors gone. Khalā/ajfalā provides a matching rhyme for emptiness and flight. Furious, he pursues them, but they are as impossible to recover as someone plunged beneath water or lifted high into the sky. The seventh maqāmah closes on that vivid disappearance.