1. I advise you to be sad, I do not advise you to be harsh
The afflicted refrains from reprimand and refutation

2. I consider it good that you be content with consolation
For the loss of the best of the absent, O best of the absent

3. It is sorrow if it was stingy with what it possessed
Of it the eyelids, yet it is not generous upon fervor

4. In me is like what is in you of sorrow and agony
And I have resorted to patience yet I did not find

5. My distance from you did not diminish my sorrow
It is consolation in closeness and in distance

6. I will share with you the refuge if adversities knock
As I shared with you in prosperity and luxury

7. I cry with tears that have support from my sorrow
And I find rest in patience without support

8. And I do not justify for myself happiness ever
Since I knew what you encountered of toil

9. And I prevent sleep from touching my eyes
Knowing that you are stationed upon wakefulness

10. Oh lone one who spent the night crying with no comforter
May God assist you with resignation and composure

11. This captive who has no ransom
Would ransom you with his soul, family, and children