«فَالْتَفَتُّ إِلَى تِلْمِيذِهِ وَقُلْتُ: عَزَمْتُ عَلَيْكَ بِمَنْ يُسْتَدْفَعُ بِهِ الْأَذَى لِتُخْبِرَنِي مَنْ ذَا؟»
I turned to his pupil and pressed him to tell me who the man was.
Iltafattu means I turned; litukhbiranī expresses the purpose of telling. Instead of requesting the identity directly from the preacher, the narrator asks his companion.
The pupil now becomes the voice through which the central mystery is resolved.
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The Preacher’s Secret and the Reveal of Abū Zayd al-Sarūjī
«فَالْتَفَتُّ إِلَى تِلْمِيذِهِ وَقُلْتُ: عَزَمْتُ عَلَيْكَ بِمَنْ يُسْتَدْفَعُ بِهِ الْأَذَى لِتُخْبِرَنِي مَنْ ذَا؟»
I turned to his pupil and pressed him to tell me who the man was.
Iltafattu means I turned; litukhbiranī expresses the purpose of telling. Instead of requesting the identity directly from the preacher, the narrator asks his companion.
The pupil now becomes the voice through which the central mystery is resolved.