«وَاسْتَتَرَ عَنِّي حِينًا»
He remained out of my sight for a time.
The narrator can no longer locate Abū Zayd or obtain a clear report about him. Earlier intimacy has given way to absence and uncertainty.
This is a deliberate narrative pause: pleasurable companionship is followed by poverty-driven travel and then a silence in which even the traveller’s whereabouts remain unknown. It prepares the reader for a later encounter without disclosing it prematurely.
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The Ḥulwān Maqāmah: Companionship, Poverty, and Parting
«وَاسْتَتَرَ عَنِّي حِينًا»
He remained out of my sight for a time.
The narrator can no longer locate Abū Zayd or obtain a clear report about him. Earlier intimacy has given way to absence and uncertainty.
This is a deliberate narrative pause: pleasurable companionship is followed by poverty-driven travel and then a silence in which even the traveller’s whereabouts remain unknown. It prepares the reader for a later encounter without disclosing it prematurely.