Sol 5.6

  1. Indeed, my paternal cousin is a true son of Zayd—and indeed he is

    surely one who lavishly stains with blood the forelegs of the choicest milk-dry she-camels;

  2. a tireless climber of mountain passes on riding-camels, and one who races

    toward a goal where whoever strives to reach it first is given precedence.

  3. He gladdens you when you are wronged and wins your approval when you are the wrongdoer,

    and takes on whatever burden you lay upon him whenever you must pay;

  4. one of the band who, in every dispute, let down

    a tightly twisted cord, firmly secured amid the clash of counsels—

  5. men well worthy of never speaking of you with suspicion;

    nor will Time ever exact from you what you have not been held liable for.

Sol 5.6