1. Do you hope Banū Fuqaym will gain in stature—

    their young—when their grown men have already proved wanting?

  2. Whenever they entered al-Nibāj, they built there

    tents of ignobility, with their short poles.

  3. Ignobility settles wherever Fuqaym settles;

    and if they roam earth’s farthest reaches, it roams there too.

Sol 5.6