Almustafa, the chosen and the beloved, who was a dawn onto his own day, had waited twelve years in the city of Orphalese for his ship that was to return and bear him back to the isle of his birth.
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Almustafa was unaware of how highly regarded he was among the people. All the years he had spent there no one appeared to have bothered with him but now that he was about to leave he was overwhelmed by the outpouring of the community. It is a pity that we didn't get his thoughts on love, children, and the various questions he had to answer before he took his departure.
Powerful allegory.