«فَقَضَيْتُ اللَّيْلَةَ مَعَهُ فِي سَمَرٍ أَنَقَ مِنْ حَدِيقَةِ زَهْرٍ وَخَمِيلَةِ شَجَرٍ»
I spent the night talking with him in an evening more charming than a garden of flowers and a leafy grove.
Samar is nocturnal conversation. Ḥadīqat zahr / khamīlat shajar compare the beauty of speech to flowers and foliage. The narrator’s delight is an aesthetic response to Abū Zayd’s verbal skill. It remains distinct from ethical endorsement of the fraud just exposed.
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The Raḥbiyyah Maqāmah — Abū Zayd Revealed, Escape and Satirical Counsel
«فَقَضَيْتُ اللَّيْلَةَ مَعَهُ فِي سَمَرٍ أَنَقَ مِنْ حَدِيقَةِ زَهْرٍ وَخَمِيلَةِ شَجَرٍ»
I spent the night talking with him in an evening more charming than a garden of flowers and a leafy grove.
Samar is nocturnal conversation. Ḥadīqat zahr / khamīlat shajar compare the beauty of speech to flowers and foliage. The narrator’s delight is an aesthetic response to Abū Zayd’s verbal skill. It remains distinct from ethical endorsement of the fraud just exposed.