Live in any community for forty days and you will become a member
-A Dictionary of Arabic and Islamic Proverbs, Paul Lunde
Lane has Fadfad as, A Waterless Desert Wherein Is Nothing, a fitting name for the community to which we all- Drovers, Khabīrs, and Khawajas alike- belonged after the Darb’s forty days and we’d arrived in Cairo. But then, on the forty first, we disbanded and went separately home, some to Dar al-Kababish and some to Amrīka.