«وَالدَّهْرُ بِالنَّاسِ قُلَّبُ»
Time repeatedly turns people from one state to another.
Al-dahr denotes time or the course of worldly life; qullab conveys frequent turning and change. Ease and distress, youth and age, do not remain fixed.
Abū Zayd does not treat the grey beard as an isolated physical event. The long succession of life's experiences has also marked him. The line expresses the instability of human circumstances rather than a simple statement that everyone becomes older.
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The Ḥulwān Maqāmah: Recognition and the Turns of Fortune
«وَالدَّهْرُ بِالنَّاسِ قُلَّبُ»
Time repeatedly turns people from one state to another.
Al-dahr denotes time or the course of worldly life; qullab conveys frequent turning and change. Ease and distress, youth and age, do not remain fixed.
Abū Zayd does not treat the grey beard as an isolated physical event. The long succession of life's experiences has also marked him. The line expresses the instability of human circumstances rather than a simple statement that everyone becomes older.