1. He embraced him before the arrival of death
The power of knowledge and the gentleness of deed

2. Woe to his two illnesses, each a killer
The ailment of the body and the sickness of boredom

3. I swear by the abodes above the burial ground
And unlock their doors to the north wind

4. Give him health in her pitcher
Sips now and doses followed

5. And take medicine as salvation and guidance
The wisdom of today and knowledge of the old

6. I know no gospel for him
Other than the gospel of merciful revelation

7. Heal him with art and beauty together
Revive him with truth or hope

8. The harshness of the lancet is gentleness, not harm
If the lancet is preceded by the gentleness of fingers

9. I do not see truth in grief alone
But woman is the partner of man

10. O builder toward his glories
Build mercy before the edifice

11. My neighbor asked about my illness
My illness, O neighbor, is my nature

12. Disease has tested his morals
So he proceeds to ruin in respite

13. This radiance in his appearance
Its like in illness is the gleam of the sickle

14. This flower in him is his blood
And he in consumption is a messenger of death

15. Would that he and consumption were a deadly disease
He had not yet been struck with a more fatal disease

16. The politicians created in him an illness
When the disease of governance is the most wretched of diseases

17. How good his state would be had it not been
When it grew from the daughters of states

18. O pity of the people, treat a nation
That was pierced when it attained the slain

19. You have for consumption a hospital, but do you
Have one for degraded morals?

20. The nuns of the monastery came, so stand
We meet mercy that came from above

21. They circled the sufferer, and I saw a hand
Purified like dew from filth

22. They examined the illness, then drew back
For it is the most delicious that one can kiss

23. O you who suffer, when you come here
Art expends itself and those who endure misery despair

24. You have undertaken exuberant youth
Inclined like the flower at childhood

25. Remember the field you cultivated
How plentifully it bloomed with flowers before they withered

26. You build a nation from a nation
Build for today and the future