1. Say to Abu Sahl who inherited gentle refinement and noble horses,
"My pacts with you have remained imprisoned, so set imprisonment against them.

2. How many a stance from you I hoped for when we would meet as comrades,
I expected when we met again as friends.

3. Yet it was changed and followed by doubts that make the radiant doubt,
The affection between us expired unjustly, so make a wedding follow the funeral.

4. You are a doctor so be not sullen, and medicine refuses the sullen.
Leave a love to heal from sickness, and do not renew his decline.

5. I blamed you for being miserly, not foolishly,
So I may find the confused pacts.

6. And you remained thus, the way of one whose words are cultured and noble horses.
The reproaches of loyal ones speak, and I do not like speechless reproaches."