«لَقَدْ أَمْسَيْتُ أَخَا عَيْلَةٍ، لَا أَمْلِكُ بَيْتَ لَيْلَةٍ»
I have fallen into destitution; I do not even possess a place to stay for one night.
Akhā ʿaylah literally calls a person a ‘brother of poverty’: a conventional way of describing one engulfed by a condition. Bayta laylah reduces his claim to the most basic need for a night’s shelter.
The speaker’s rhetoric traces a fall from former comfort to an alleged absence of even temporary accommodation.
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The Dīnārī Maqāmah: From Hunger to a Dinar’s Praise
«لَقَدْ أَمْسَيْتُ أَخَا عَيْلَةٍ، لَا أَمْلِكُ بَيْتَ لَيْلَةٍ»
I have fallen into destitution; I do not even possess a place to stay for one night.
Akhā ʿaylah literally calls a person a ‘brother of poverty’: a conventional way of describing one engulfed by a condition. Bayta laylah reduces his claim to the most basic need for a night’s shelter.
The speaker’s rhetoric traces a fall from former comfort to an alleged absence of even temporary accommodation.