1. We found al-Abrash al-Kalbi raised high

    by the ancestral roots of a man of noble lineage.

  2. His father raised him where there had settled

    Quda‘a, atop a mighty, age-old foundation.

  3. He surpasses other lineages by a full armspan,

    radiant, and not of a dark, obscure lineage.

  4. To you comes Kalb's throng, as numerous as pebbles,

    and the alliance of the most numerous—the sons of Tamim.

  5. They are your closest allies; they smothered

    the noses of your people's foes in dust.

  6. And how many hours of a day were yours,

    of dreadful battle, its stars laid bare,

  7. when, with your drawn sword among them, you milked

    the fields of every encounter that brings grief to light.

  8. And how many clashes on a day of fierce combat

    Kalb had against Arabs and Romans!

  9. Kalb is the fiercest of people on the day of battle,

    and the weightiest in the scales of wisdom.

  10. For I—by what Quraysh sought in pilgrimage,

    with the oath of one neither contentious nor sinful,

  11. toward which ankleted she-camels yearn during it,

    and wounded ones, bleeding from their shoulders—

  12. for I, by the riding camels, am an ally of Kalb:

    a noble man who drove them to a noble man.

  13. Toward you we make the finest of them sweat

    across the back of layered and solid rock.

  14. When you have brought my saddle and myself

    to al-Kalbi, O she-camel, then do not rise.

Sol 6.1