وَمِنَّا قَبْلَهُ السَّاعِي كُلَيْبٌ فَأَيُّ الْمَجْدِ إِلَّا قَدْ وَلِينَا
Before him, our own Kulaib was the striving leader. What kind of honour have we not attained?
Al-sāʿī Kulaib highlights Kulaib's energetic leadership. Minnā qablahu reaches back to a previous generation and frames honour as inherited collective memory.
Fa-ayyu al-majdi illā qad walīnā is not a request for a catalogue of honours. It is a rhetorical question that insists no field of distinction has been beyond the tribe.
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ʿAmr ibn Kulthūm: Ancestral Honour, Oaths and Battle Formations (verses 64–74)
وَمِنَّا قَبْلَهُ السَّاعِي كُلَيْبٌ فَأَيُّ الْمَجْدِ إِلَّا قَدْ وَلِينَا
Before him, our own Kulaib was the striving leader. What kind of honour have we not attained?
Al-sāʿī Kulaib highlights Kulaib's energetic leadership. Minnā qablahu reaches back to a previous generation and frames honour as inherited collective memory.
Fa-ayyu al-majdi illā qad walīnā is not a request for a catalogue of honours. It is a rhetorical question that insists no field of distinction has been beyond the tribe.