And the Ta'if for the Ta'if, so we are more deserving of abundance and more worthy of the honor of status. And I have said, and he claimed that the Arab says that kinship is deserved by established reasons and ancient ties of kinship, obedience to fathers and tribe, the beneficial poet, sufficient praise, and measured poetry that lasts as long as time and reveals what is hidden. And we recall what befell Al-Laj, and what the east wind blew, and what was for the house, and with scattered words and inherited sayings, and with the description of the state's prosperity and the need for invitation, and the recording of achievements. It was not the custom of the non-Arabs, nor was this known to the Arabs. And we bind ourselves to it with pious poetry and its preservation by the illiterate, who do not rely on written books and learned writings. And we are keen on boasting, debating, and disputing honor, and resorting to every convincing judge and brave person. And we do not taunt with faults and boast of misfortunes. And we are more knowledgeable of our lineages and more assertive of our rights, and we present them also in free prose after measured, refined prose, with a tongue sharper than the tongue and more eloquent than the sheathed sword, until we mention what has been erased and its trace has faded. And there is a difference between fighting out of desire and fear, and the one who is steadfast in preservation is not like the one for whom something happens. And this is a chapter in which the ancient is preceded by the new. And the seekers of greatness are two men, a Sijistani and a Bedouin. And are not the most prominent leaders from the core of the Arabs and from the pure lineage? And this lineage is all of Abdul Hamid, Qasaba bin Shabib Al-Ta'i, and the governor Muhammad bin Sulaiman bin Kathir Al-Khawaji.