1. Tell those who seek the stone
Have knowledge and insight come

2. By no means, by Allah, is our water
Of blood, neither hair

3. Nor eggs and semen
Nor urine and filth

4. Nor any other bodily fluids
I mean thereby the vulgar

5. Neither plants nor
Fruits and vegetation

6. Nor the salty sweat
That causes fatigue

7. Seek salt with effort
Even if it's in Hell

8. Refine it, O eminent
If you obtain it, you've succeeded

9. And when you understand
And ascertain the truth

10. It's the sun of daytime, no
Doubt in it or harm

11. It's the full moon of night when
Its essence is pure, not turbid

12. It resembles saffron in
Color and gum in trees

13. Mix it well afterwards
You've understood without boredom

14. Settle the mixture in a dome
Of glass without flaw

15. It contains the best elixir
A stone, yet no stone

16. The rock of knowledge this
It's an ingot for the expert

17. It's their House, their home
Understand, O wise

18. It's their Head, for those who saw
In the temples, for the observer

19. It's their magnetism
Its name is Form of forms

20. It's their egg, thereby
Khalid was eternalized

21. It's their dragon symbol
Thereby Zeus was famed

22. It's Hermes'Ferba
Called He of the Jar

23. It's the seven in the ditch
When Morquenos perished

24. Study their books, the books
Indeed, observe well

25. All that you wish for
Is registered therein

26. Like you, I was joking
Defiling the pure with the turbid

27. And saw each flawed thing
As perfect, from blindness

28. I remained thus until
The truth appeared and spread

29. So that the matter is one
Nothing but the stone

30. Gum of the sun this
Body of the lunar gum

31. Resembling melted wax
Flowing like rain when it pours

32. And like mercury if it flows for long
This is a gift to you

33. Take it and no burden
Reflect on its lines

34. For the truth is registered
The finest word has appeared

35. The finest mystery revealed
And the precious mine laid bare

36. For the keen observers