تُعَفِّي الْكُلُومَ بِالْمِئِينَ فَأَصْبَحَتْ ۞ يُنَجِّمُهَا مَنْ لَيْسَ فِيهَا بِمُجْرِمِ
Meaning: You efface the wounds with payments in hundreds, so that installments are paid by people who were not guilty of those wounds.
Al-kulūm is the plural of kalm, “wound”; the line also evokes the community’s injuries from warfare. Tuʿaffī means to obliterate or make traces disappear. Bi-l-miʾīn denotes compensation in hundreds, especially the large number of camels used to settle blood claims.
Yunajjimuhā means paying sums over time in installments. Man laysa fīhā bi-mujrim stresses that the payers were not themselves guilty of inflicting those wounds. Taking on liability for peace is thus presented as an act of extraordinary generosity.