1. They read their journeys, while the truth informs me
That its end is trouble and its beginning is

2. You were right, O mind, so let the foolish brother be dismissed
He fabricated tales or misinterpreted them

3. Ink is not with innovation among his companions
If he gained benefit relating fabricated news

4. Rather he sought to marry women with what he invented
And acquired wealth with what he misappropriated

5. Misery has been prolonged by the person being among nations
That count its misguided one as depended upon

6. And he will sleep in the dust, troubled
After traveling the horizons of his world and wandering through it

7. I will surely abandon you, not out of past hatred
But dignity instilled by fate and tempted by it

8. The companion of Islamic law had Jerusalem as his direction of prayer
He prayed towards it for a time, then changed it

9. Let not a caller deceive you, who stood before a gathering
With a sermon whose meaning was adulterated and prolonged

10. Sermons are nothing but ruses
From one with speech over people he has misled

11. Time makes forgotten the sword bearer in war
His armor and the dashing stallion in its prime

12. And takes back from the soul which became noble
What it was given in days passed long ago

13. An orator became dust after his speech
And did not resemble the wilderness he declaimed

14. Spend time wholesomely and walk about
For the spirit’s journey follows behind it

15. A sip of roses will suffice if you obtain it
On your travels, if the land denied you its streams