1. The intention lengthened, and time kept going,
After separation, patience and composure diminished.

2. If patience itself were honey,
It would become, like patience, when situations prolong.

3. Time intentionally did me wrong, and I was afflicted by it,
And time is not a confidant for anyone.

4. I used to have a body I lived with,
And today it has become half that body.

5. Thanks to God - complaining of the body is easy
As long as the mind and wisdom remain sound from us.

6. So one with paralysis in his hand does not despair,
Nor one with conjunctivitis in his eye despair.

7. We have days on earth that pass by us,
Whose events chase like the running of horses.

8. And everything, in our time, has an end,
So neither purity nor eternity remains with it.

9. A dream that terrified its beholder at night,
Dissipated at the clarity of dawn what it yielded.

10. One who does not own a hand to ward off affliction,
Then he has nothing but beautiful patience as a hand.