1. My brother, the era of tranquility has come, its messenger has arrived
And its smoothness has relieved the obstinate soul

2. I have discarded passion like eyelids discard their rheum
So it has wearied one who suffers with an ignorant soul

3. And I warned it of the fate of the friend, for it is
Its unfaithfulness to its friend that returns to it

4. I have filled myself with worldly and human experience
Yet the least significant thing to my eyes is the greatest of it

5. If I were to carry the burden of some of my ambition
The heaviness of that contentment would weigh down its load

6. When the palm of a young man clasps his scabbard
The worst of my belongings is that I do not draw it

7. Yet I show leniency to a friend, overlooking
His slip and alleviating it

8. It did not harm me that I pitched camp in the Maghreb
When the lights of my knowledge rise, it deflects them

9. So how much green algae hides the surface of water
That its slenderness reveals what is hidden beneath it

10. Its taste translates the sweetness of the drink
And its neighing expresses the freedom of the steeds