The final fifteen verses ask: Can one tribe be charged for another’s actions when both parties previously accepted common conditions? The poet answers with equality of terms, tribal differentiation, recalled battles and royal testimony.
Key terms: sawāʾ, parity; junāḥ/janāyā, offences; nīṭa ... al-aʿbāʾ, carrying blame; burāʾ, disassociation; qāṣimat al-ẓahr, a devastating blow; al-shahīd, witness.
This printed poem closes here. Completion of the seven Muʿallaqāt enables a comparative study of the poets’ different purposes, formal strategies and images.