نحاسنا تغلنا وزئبقنا

نحاسنا تغلنا وزئبقنا

ما طار في طبخنا عن الثُّفلِ

ما طار في طبخنا عن الثُّفلِ

Our copper is [our residue?], and our mercury

Our copper has matured and our mercury,

is what flew off from the dregs in our cooking.

It did not evaporate in our cooking from the dregs.

وهو إذا ابيضّ فضة فإذا

وهو إذا ابيضّ فضة فإذا

ما احمرّ تبر فرخان من أصلِ

ما احمرّ تبر فرخان من أصلِ

And when it turns white, it is silver; and when

And when it turned silver, it became

it turns red, gold—two fledglings from one root,

Red sulfur, chicks from the origin.

صنوان من واحد إذا امتزجا

صنوان من واحد إذا امتزجا

في البحر حازا أكرم الفعلِ

في البحر حازا أكرم الفعلِ

twin stems from one source; when they mingle

Two medicines from one, when they mix

in the sea, they achieve the noblest work.

In the sea, they achieve the most honorable deed.

والجسد اللين الضعيف هوال

والجسد اللين الضعيف هوال

حابس للآبقات بالثقلِ

حابس للآبقات بالثقلِ

And the soft, weak body is the

The soft, weak body is the one

restrainer of the fugitives by its weight.

That imprisons the fugitives with its weight.

والروح أباقة لخفتها

والروح أباقة لخفتها

تطير في جوها وتستعلي

تطير في جوها وتستعلي

And the spirit is ever fugitive, owing to its lightness;

And the soul is a fugitive due to its lightness,

it flies in its air and rises aloft.

It flies in its atmosphere and rises high.

والناس بالزئبق الغرور وبال

والناس بالزئبق الغرور وبال

كبريت والأوساخ في شغلِ

كبريت والأوساخ في شغلِ

And people, with deceptive mercury and with

And the people with the mercury of arrogance and the

sulfur and filth, are preoccupied.

Sulfur and filth of occupation.

قد تركوا النور يستضيء به ال

قد تركوا النور يستضيء به ال

ساري وساروا في ظلم الجهلِ

ساري وساروا في ظلم الجهلِ

They have forsaken the light that illuminates the

They have abandoned the light to illuminate

night traveler, and traveled through the darkness of ignorance.

The sublime, and walked in the darkness of ignorance.