1. نَصرٌ طَبيبٌ وَلَكِن لَم يَعُد أَحَداً

    إِلا وَساقَ إِلَيهِ طِبُّهُ الأَجَلا

    Nasr is a physician, yet he has never visited anyone

    without his medicine bringing death upon him.

  2. فَظَلَّ يُنشِدُ وَالأَسقامُ تَنهَبُهُ

    أَحيا وَأَيسَرُ ما قاسَيتُ ما قَتَلا

    So he kept reciting, while ailments ravaged him:

    'I live, though the least of what I have endured would kill.'

  3. كَم قائِلٍ قال لَولاهُ لما وَجَدَت

    لَها المَنايا إِلى أَرواحِنا سُبُلا

    Many a speaker has said: 'But for him, death would never have found

    paths for itself to our souls.'