1. اصبرْ على مترادِفِ الضَّرَّاءِ

    فلعلَّ ذلك مُؤذِنٌ بشِفاءِ

    Be patient with hardship upon hardship,

    For perhaps that heralds recovery.

  2. ما حالَ مَنْ لَعِبَ السَّقامُ بجسمِهِ

    ظُلْماً فعضَّ نفيسةَ الأعضاءِ

    How fares one whose body sickness has toyed with,

    Unjustly, then bitten the most precious of his organs?

  3. حَظَرَ الطبيبُ عليه طيبَ غِذائِه

    وأباحَه مكروهَ كلِّ غِذاءِ

    The physician forbade him his pleasant food,

    And permitted him every unpalatable food.

  4. ويعودُه أعداؤُّه وأشدُّ مِنْ

    مَرَضِ المريضِ عيادةُ الأعداءِ

    And his enemies visit him—and worse than

    The patient's illness is a visit from enemies.