Many a pig sleeps on silken sheets/while the learned sleep on the ground.
-In Darfur: Travels of an Arab Merchant in Sudan, Muhammad Ibn Umar al-Tunisi (1789-1857)
Al-Tunisi’s prefatory poem captured my own thought one night when bedding down somewhere between the Matoul and Idd Ahmad wells. KhairAllah the Khabīr- Experienced, Expert, Specialist (see Wehr), and in its most unexpected seconday meaning, Foam or Froth of the Mouths of Camels (see Lane)- slept soundly at the fire. But NB cf. Al-Khabīr (a metonym for Allah, always with the Arabic definite article)- The All-Experienced, #31 of the 99 Beautiful Names of Allah- which makes KhairAllah the Khabīr more properly Abd al-Khabīr, Servant of The Khabīr.