then i said he claimed that the closeness is deserved by the established causes and by the intertwined wombs and by the precedence and obedience to the fathers and the clan and by the beneficial thanks and the sufficient praise in the metered poetry that remains as long as the ages remain and appears as long as the star appears and is chanted as the hajj is called and as long as the north wind blows and as long as the oil is pressed and by the prose and the famous saying. or by the description of the way out of the state and the argument for the call and the recording of the exploits since that was not the custom of the persians nor was it preserved as known to anyone except the arabs. and we associate it with the rhymed poetry and we connect it with the preservation of the illiterate. who
ثم قلت وزعم أن القربة تستحق بالأسباب الثابتة، وبالأرحام الشابكة، وبالقدمة، والطاعة للآباء والعشيرة، وبالشكر النافع، والمديح الكافي بالشعر الموزون الذي يبقى بقاء الدهر، ويلوح ما لاح نجم، وينشد ما أهل بالحج، وما هبت الصبا، وما كان للزيت عاصر، وبالكلام المنثور والقول المأثور. أو بصفة مخرج الدولة والاحتجاج للدعوة، وتقييد المآثر، إذ لم يكن ذلك من عادة العجم، ولا كان يحفظ ذلك معروفا لسوى العرب. ونحن نرتبطها بالشعر المقفى، ونصلها بحفظ الأميين. الذين