«فَلَمَّا آنَسَ اسْتِئْنَاسَهُمْ بِكَلَامِهِ»
When he realised that they had warmed to his speech.
His performance has won the audience's attention and approval. Istiʾnās here suggests growing ease, receptiveness and trust through conversation.
The scene has now completed one clear cycle: suspicion, proposal of a test, poetic answer, and acknowledgement. The stranger next offers further verses, which form a new literary episode and therefore a suitable beginning for Level 013.
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The Ḥulwān Maqāmah: Doubt, Proof and a Contest of Poetry
«فَلَمَّا آنَسَ اسْتِئْنَاسَهُمْ بِكَلَامِهِ»
When he realised that they had warmed to his speech.
His performance has won the audience's attention and approval. Istiʾnās here suggests growing ease, receptiveness and trust through conversation.
The scene has now completed one clear cycle: suspicion, proposal of a test, poetic answer, and acknowledgement. The stranger next offers further verses, which form a new literary episode and therefore a suitable beginning for Level 013.