1. O you who depart, not pleased with our life
Stop between us before parting, and bid us farewell

2. To whom have you left the school, which accepts
None but you - have you been good to it, or made it better?

3. To whom have you entrusted safeguarding the beauty of sciences
That is now lost and its splendor darkened after you?

4. To whom have you made the sciences' successor
After the harm of a day when we lost you?

5. You have undone the rope of chemistry, though
Since Jabir's time it has wished you wealth

6. Can the body recover without you
After you reluctantly handed it over to one who did no good?

7. Oh the agony of teaching, from the pain of loss
He will visit the grave before forty days

8. Whence will students after you have the will
For a branch of knowledge where the head bowed down?

9. O son of those who prided themselves in their time
On sciences adorned in robes of prose and verse

10. Do not grieve, by your father, for what we missed
Of your hidden pearls in the belly of oblivion

11. If your knowledge has declined, diminished in amount
Your brother will fill our breasts with sciences

12. And provide us strange things from his art
That cure chronic diseases among us

13. May God help him and pour out his patience
Upon him - so his body withstands hardship

14. And reward him for what he endured
In the moment of parting, from intensity of sorrow