«وَلَا لَهُ فِي أَرْضِكُمْ مِنْ مَوْئِلِ / وَقَدْ دَجَا جُنْحُ الظَّلَامِ الْمُسْبِلِ»
He has no refuge in your land, while the curtain of darkness has thickened around him.
Mawʾil is a refuge; junḥ al-ẓalām evokes the spread of night; musbil suggests a hanging or lowered covering.
The plea accumulates urgency: first hunger, then disorientation, and now homelessness. Darkness hangs like a curtain, intensifying the feeling of isolation.
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The Kūfan Maqāmah: Abū Zayd’s Strange Tale and the Midnight Knock
«وَلَا لَهُ فِي أَرْضِكُمْ مِنْ مَوْئِلِ / وَقَدْ دَجَا جُنْحُ الظَّلَامِ الْمُسْبِلِ»
He has no refuge in your land, while the curtain of darkness has thickened around him.
Mawʾil is a refuge; junḥ al-ẓalām evokes the spread of night; musbil suggests a hanging or lowered covering.
The plea accumulates urgency: first hunger, then disorientation, and now homelessness. Darkness hangs like a curtain, intensifying the feeling of isolation.