«وَمُؤَمِّلُكَ شَيْخٌ حَكَاهُ فَتًى، وَلَمْ يَبْقَ لَهُ شَيْءٌ»
The one who hopes in you is an old man who once resembled a youth, and now possesses nothing.
Muʾammil is a person nurturing hope; shaykh denotes an elder; fatā a young man. The juxtaposition makes bodily decline and lost resources part of the petition's appeal.
This is the supplicant's literary self-portrait. The text supports analyzing its effect on the audience, but does not independently establish each autobiographical detail as a verified historical fact.