«عَلَى أَنِّي لَمْ أَهَبْ صَرْفَهُ وَلَا نَبَضَتْ لِي مِنْهُ فَرِيصَهْ»
Yet I did not fear its changing fortune, nor did a muscle of fear tremble within me.
Ṣarf al-dahr is the turning of fortune; farīṣah is a part of the body associated in idiom with trembling from fear. The line asserts courage in the face of reversal.
This is how the preacher presents himself. The reader may contrast the boast with his earlier anger, making the character more complex than a simple moral label.
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The Preacher’s Secret and the Reveal of Abū Zayd al-Sarūjī
«عَلَى أَنِّي لَمْ أَهَبْ صَرْفَهُ وَلَا نَبَضَتْ لِي مِنْهُ فَرِيصَهْ»
Yet I did not fear its changing fortune, nor did a muscle of fear tremble within me.
Ṣarf al-dahr is the turning of fortune; farīṣah is a part of the body associated in idiom with trembling from fear. The line asserts courage in the face of reversal.
This is how the preacher presents himself. The reader may contrast the boast with his earlier anger, making the character more complex than a simple moral label.