1. He who backbites you shares in your good deeds
And gives you the reward of his fasting and prayers

2. And carries a burden from you that hurts him to carry
From the elite of his sons and daughters

3. So suffice yourself with good wishes and say: May God reward him
With goodness and erase his misdeeds

4. O you who backbites, you have brought benefit, so if
Any reward remains for prayer or charity, bring it forth

5. Wretched is he who spends the night with his enemy
While God treats him kindly in his heedlessness

6. So do not be surprised at one who has brought harm upon himself
By being of benefit to some of his enemies

7. And more amazing than him is the reasonable one who goes to bed angry
At a man who guides him to his good deeds

8. And carries some of his burdens and sins
And is destroyed in saving him and delivering him

9. And harsh words have no effect, like the wind
So some of man's traits remain with him

10. Whoever is patient deserves reward and praise
In this world and after his death

11. And whoever takes revenge blows upon an ember that has faded
And gathers causes of equality for himself

12. So there is no righteousness that will reward him after his death
Or good deed that will be praised during his life

13. A man's brother continues to eat his flesh
As the state of his death is in God's book

14. And he is not shy of what he sees and claims
That the traits of the dog are beneath his traits

15. Yet they both ate from the flesh of a corpse
But the dog was compelled by need for his livelihood

16. They are equal in that they both ate it, yet the one
Who fears the consequences is worse off