إليك ما يقطع للسعله

من أصلها فوراً بلا مهله

Here is what stops the cough

At its root, at once, without delay,

وما به تعظم نفس الفتى

جتى يرى الملك له كله

And what makes a young man's spirit swell,

Until he deems the whole kingdom his.

فلا يرى من قبله مثله

ولا يرى من بعده مثله

So he sees none before him like himself,

Nor any after him like himself.

لا سيما الفاضل إن نالها

أبدت له حينئذ فضله

Especially the learned man, if he obtains it:

It then reveals his excellence to him.

وهكذا العاقل إن مسها

ردت له من خالف عقله

And likewise the rational man, if he touches it:

It refutes, for him, whoever disputes his judgment.

لا بد ان يضحى بها مائساً

بين رياض لابساً حله

Through it, he is bound to go strutting

Among gardens, wearing a fine robe,

محدثاً يخبر عما مضى

وعن تمرلنك ومن قبله

Talking, recounting what has passed,

And of Tamerlane and those before him.

ثم يرى برقوق في خيله

يهز متن الرمح للحمله

Then he sees Barquq amid his cavalry,

Brandishing the spear's shaft for the charge.

وينظر الهند وأشجاره

ويشهد السند ومن حله

And he beholds India and its trees,

And sees Sindh and those who dwell there.

وحوله الأرض يسقى بها

زروع أرض النيل من دجله

And around him lies the earth, where are watered

The crops of the Nile's land with water from the Tigris.