1. Be charitable to the blind by taking his right hand
To guide him, and have faith in making the deaf hear,

2. And your singing to the lute that its loss was lamented
Is upon you, so why does man complain wherever he goes?

3. And give your father half while he's alive and dead,
And prefer him with the highest of his mother's honor.

4. She carried you lightly when heaviness burdened you,
And suckled you two years bearing you completely.

5. She cast you off with effort and cast you for pleasure,
She held you and smelled you as any mother would hold or smell.

6. I thank my elders who raised me though I have rarely
Done anything but what deserves blame.

7. Nights blame a people's condition even if they pardon
For a time, for the earth swallows them up eventually.

8. They die of fever, drowning, in tumult and war,
And various deaths that met an appointed fate.

9. It is easy for my soul that I have saddened with sorrow
To pass the night with Suhail for the riders in gloom.

10. I am not saddened for a house that has become desolate
Nor grieving the departure of a mount if it became unsaddled.

11. If you wish then traverse the open plains,
And if you wish then traverse its lofty summits.

12. A spurious man attacked with swords and claimed
Like a piercing darkness that attacked with blades.

13. This life does not stop weighing down the young man
With burdens until it makes him carry worries.

14. If the mind's intellect were complete in the body
It would not harbor within it anything that pains it.

15. I have a hope that grew up with me and accompanied me
Before youth, and never worried.

16. When does an outsider offer you advice
And you don't tell it fully? Love the companion even if he is blamed.

17. Do not be one who draws the servant near only to neglect him
When he grows old and worries.

18. The night is an excellent ship if it passes concealing
Your passions, and keep far from the morn if it slept.

19. I warned you against the arrow of harm whose feathers betrayal
Had trimmed, and anger had notched, or poisoned.

20. So I sent it to rouse the waters raging
Or to drain the sea if it overflowed.

21. It leaves thirst in the sands without benefit
Even if it overflowed fresh in its midriff with water.

22. And man might resemble one who came for his guidance
From afar, while his likeness is actually the mole and pimple.

23. And I do not see in any birth the judgment of a midwife,
And how many seeds have produced foolish sprouts?

24. I have cast forth a bit of the faults of the truthful
May their people reward them for it with abundant lies.

25. I entrusted my heart to the whole group of them
And held back when they exaggerated the cave or bent it.