زال عن جسمك الذي امة الفضل

زال عن جسمك الذي امة الفضل

به لا ضمائر وعظام

به لا ضمائر وعظام

Illness has left your body, wherein a nation of virtue

Gone is the body from which the community of excellence benefits

dwells, not hearts and bones.

With it, there are no feelings or bones

أي جسم يندى فينتشق الفضل

أي جسم يندى فينتشق الفضل

وتثنى بالدر عنه المسام

وتثنى بالدر عنه المسام

What a body: it beads with dew, so virtue is inhaled,

What body is moistened to inhale excellence

and its pores praise it with pearls.

And folds of pearl drawn away from it

فكأن المسام افواه مدح

فكأن المسام افواه مدح

ملأنها بالدر قبلي الكرام

ملأنها بالدر قبلي الكرام

As though the pores were mouths of praise,

It's as if the folds are mouths of praise

which the noble had filled with pearls before me.

Filled with pearls before the generous

غربة الشكل دونها غربة الأ

غربة الشكل دونها غربة الأ

هل وكل به الكريم يضام

هل وكل به الكريم يضام

Estrangement from one's peers is worse than estrangement from one's

A foreign form without it is foreignness of

family; in either, the noble man is wronged.

Family and all the generous are aggrieved by it

غربة كالليال بالحظ حبلى

غربة كالليال بالحظ حبلى

وزفيري منها تؤام تؤام

وزفيري منها تؤام تؤام

An estrangement like the nights, pregnant with fortune,

A foreignness like the nights pregnant with fortune

and my sighs from it are twins upon twins.

And my sigh from it twins twins

لم يضق منه وهو ضيف ولكن

لم يضق منه وهو ضيف ولكن

رب ضيف بمل منه المقام

رب ضيف بمل منه المقام

He did not chafe at it, though it was a guest; yet

Not weary of him though he's a guest but

many a guest makes his stay wearisome.

A guest with a filled residence tires of the stay

قصدنك الاعيان حتى المعالي

قصدنك الاعيان حتى المعالي

والمعاني من بعضها الاسقام

والمعاني من بعضها الاسقام

The notables sought you—even lofty virtues,

The notables sought you, even the nobility

and abstractions, among which are ailments.

And the meanings, some of them are diseased

ثم زالت واقبلت صلة الاج

ثم زالت واقبلت صلة الاج

ر عواف تحكي نداك جسام

ر عواف تحكي نداك جسام

Then they departed, and there came the gift of

Then they departed and the ties of reward came

reward: vast blessings of health mirroring your bounty.

Reporting your mark, substantial

باني أنت ركن فضل وللكل

باني أنت ركن فضل وللكل

التماس من حوله واستملا

التماس من حوله واستملا

You build a pillar of virtue; everyone

You are the pillar of excellence and for all

seeks around it and requests dictation.

Seeking around it and fulfillment

لك هم وهمة ولك الطو

لك هم وهمة ولك الطو

ل وعار ان لا يهم الهمام

ل وعار ان لا يهم الهمام

You have care and high resolve, and yours is

You have worry and determination and you have length and

bounty; it is shameful for a magnanimous man not to care.

Shame if the ambitious do not worry

انت ممن تضنى القلوب إذا اعت

انت ممن تضنى القلوب إذا اعت

ل وتشفى ببرئه الاجسام

ل وتشفى ببرئه الاجسام

You are one for whom hearts languish when you fall

You are one who hearts grieve if he is incapacitated

ill, and through whose recovery bodies are healed.

And healed by his recovery are bodies

ادركت نصرة الشفاء ففرالهم

ادركت نصرة الشفاء ففرالهم

واستتبعت به الآلام

واستتبعت به الآلام

You gained healing's aid, so care fled,

You attained support of recovery so the worries dispersed

and you made the pains follow it.

And its pains followed

ما بقى في الانام والحمد لل

ما بقى في الانام والحمد لل

هِ مريض الّا الجفون السقام

هِ مريض الّا الجفون السقام

No one among humankind remains—praise be to

Nothing remained in the people, and praise be to God

God—ill, except languishing eyelids.

Sick except the eyelids, diseased