1. O Abu Qasim, reason has no other recourse,

    nor has glory any mainstay but you.

  2. I have known you: your resolve is not bent by any calamity

    that strikes; nor does a thorny problem require your patience.

  3. Ponder time's vicissitudes, for only

    reflection reveals the secrets of affairs.

  4. Do you see anyone envied for a state that pleases him,

    which, once complete, does not begin to change?

  5. We live as calamities please; we are led

    by paths of hope that swerve and run straight.

  6. Whenever we ponder calamities and their recurring assaults

    upon us, we realize that we are consoling ourselves.

  7. And the fretful man's final resort is patience; but whatever

    patience a young man shows early is more becoming.

Sol 6.1