1. Arise, do not fall, rid yourself of despair, be a man
And awaken your heart, restrain your flowing tears

2. Grasp your wounds, do not plunge into danger
For every wound will heal if you tend it

3. Cease beating your cheeks, for such blows only hurt them
In vain, like one who laments rocks and hills

4. Be gentle with yourself, you are near to losing yourself
My heart aches for you, and my body is worn out

5. Yet your heart has no pity for you, nor was it
Accustomed to cruelty when misfortune struck

6. Or are you, in grief, without pity for it, so
It wanders lost in the darkness of despair, aflame

7. A heart that still has a place with me, I'll not abandon it
You are my adversary if you make it sick

8. There is no alternative, it must melt and revive while burning
For a brother like you, you'll find no substitute

9. It called you when your Creator's voice summoned it
Seeking your farewell as it journeyed onward

10. So it took your name as provision, tracing it
As a memento on its lips as it passed away

11. Thus your name had the privilege you envy
For it gathered kisses from his touch

12. You were generous of spirit before his death
That you might see him, but fate was miserly

13. If you are suffering in exile, then forever
Be reasonable in it, an exile that dazzles the mind

14. Why do I see you, weak of heart, crushed
When you have so often denied tremendous calamities

15. You weep for a youth in the spring of life, struck down
Like a snapped branch in the garden, withered

16. You weep for your brother, safe from death's sting
Do not weep, he is safe in the gardens on high

17. You mourn an arm you kept lamenting was gone
You weep for a loss that disappointed hopes

18. While fate remains busy destroying hopes
Demolishing their towers, tireless, without pause

19. Your keen wailing stirred the lands, mourning
"Alas for me!" it laments a star of its own now set

20. A mother calls you from afar for her consolation
And those who called you to redress wrongs were not let down

21. So you rose in Egypt to calm Syria's burning
With yearning laments that disturb resolute minds

22. You race to the Nile, thirsty, and imagine it
A river of fire where you find no drink at all

23. Hardships unknown to you attacked
So learn through wisdom what example to set

24. Alas, this first time it poured out on you
Horrors of its war, so be a hero

25. Live, you lost your senses, stripped of reason
Drunk, not on wine, confused and reckless

26. You think people's existence is a burden to them
And the order of the universe remains incomplete

27. What is this blackness? What is this garment you wear?
All men in the darkness of vision are masked

28. If you seek sympathy look always to fate
You'll find a comrade for each affliction that befalls

29. You turned your hearing from the voice of a friend and
Sought to hold its attention until it languished and burned

30. And beneath your breast, O Iskander, truths are engraved
That your heedlessness calls for shame

31. If today you lost your brother, what a pity!
Submit to the Almighty Judge, pleading

32. And sorrow is a heavy guest - if you live with it
And smile, it will leave and move on

33. Dense by nature, so it does not love the gentle, thus
When it sees a cheerful face, it departs

34. Patience provides the best remedy for the heart's wound
So whenever it passes through the folds of hearts, it heals

35. All on earth are brothers, separated only
By death's caller, and none can stop the appointed time