1. The best souls are those who know themselves,
And the essence of their quantities and beings.

2. And with what they were, and from what they're made,
Limbs built upon their forms.

3. The soul of plants and the soul of composite senses,
This is like that in its attributes as in its attributes.

4. What is the cause, the reason for which
It has power over its sisters?

5. Is there a perceptive youth who can show me evidence
To dispel our doubts and its ambiguities?

6. Oh men! How great the calamity that souls
Have been confused in its darkness!