1. You attained the highest position with merit
You excelled not out of pardon or enablement

2. Glory to the dean of medicine, you did not take a position
Except with the best of it, you were the most genuine

3. The signs of your knowledge and innovation were directed
Theoretically and examined through application

4. The geniuses knew its superiority through evidence
So their testimonies to it came as confirmation

5. Without heresy, though differing in nationality, they
Cherished genius and called you a colleague

6. So if the position of knowledge is the highest flag
And their party is the most honourable group

7. You renewed an ancient glory for Egypt
So you purified a face for venerable pride

8. And you connected medicine’s branches to its origin
So the branches blossomed with their rooted origin

9. Oh medicine, from the innovation of Egypt, for it
An opening that overflowed over the sunset as sunrise

10. Without heresy, and the grandchildren are the secret of their ancestors
To regain its position and excel

11. It deified Amenhotep, but rather
It glorified the Creator through the created

12. A knowledge which if you examine its greatness
You delve into it and leave no subtlety

13. And you killed it with news to revive through it
And you probed its furthest depth in verification

14. So new perspectives appeared in it to you
From every door not previously knocked on

15. And your discussions which brought close
What was of it far, were transformed in it

16. How many ill you cured of their sickness
So you spared them torture and moistening

17. And you cured the spiritual illness before the body
With gentle speech and gentle treatment

18. You describe the medicine to him in the right amount so no
Adulterating in attributes or patching up

19. Or you detect the chronic illness with insight
That removes the veil and does not stray from the path

20. A skill flows and shines in your hands
Like water, gentle, and hope, shining

21. And it obeys a stringent mind like its firmness
And obeys a heart gentle like a breeze

22. Resolve with which calamities end when they end
And sometimes you harness the pigeons when they coo

23. Leave the excellence of that genius, his knowledge
His intelligence and his eloquent tongue

24. And mention to him above wisdom and dignity
A mannerism with the finest nobilities befitting

25. The people of the time experienced time’s sons, so it was difficult
For them to see the friend as his friend saw him

26. And if loyalty appeared as an example, there would be
No one but him whose example is believed

27. A love pure of any blemish, so no
Turbidity in a situation or affectation

28. Manners that restrain him with their ways
And you see him cheerful and at ease

29. A sound taste in wit and sweetness
He loves the arts and rejects ornamentation

30. He takes from them the best, so you do not see
Except beautiful all around him and elegant

31. Oh pride of his nation and reviver of its glory
Your great efforts have obliged you your rights

32. Can it fulfill what it obligated upon its literati
To commend the written and spoken?

33. Far from it! You conceal with modesty the effort
Of what you reached in your lofty position

34. The peers fall short of you, and none of them
Were preceding except they became preceded

35. It satisfied them in truth that you were not
The lowest of them in effort and highest in ascent

36. Justice, your residing in all hearts
That position revered and entrusted