ارتباطُ السقمِ بالعرضِ

ارتباطُ السقمِ بالعرضِ

كارتباطِ الجسم بالعَرَضِ

كارتباطِ الجسم بالعَرَضِ

Sickness is bound to worldly gain

The connection of illness to symptom

as the body is bound to accidental qualities.

Is like the connection of body to attribute

فإذا نيلتْ فعافيةٌ

فإذا نيلتْ فعافيةٌ

وانتفى ما كان من مرضِ

وانتفى ما كان من مرضِ

Then, once it is attained, there is well-being,

So when good health is attained

and whatever illness there was vanishes.

And what was of disease is removed

فانظروا فيما ذكرتُ لكم

فانظروا فيما ذكرتُ لكم

تسلموا من علةِ الغرض

تسلموا من علةِ الغرض

So reflect on what I have told you:

Then look at what I have told you

you will be safe from the malady of desire.

And be safe from the illness of purpose

فوجوبُ الزهد فيه لذي

فوجوبُ الزهد فيه لذي

نظر وجوبُ مفترض

نظر وجوبُ مفترض

Thus renouncing it, for one possessed of

So detachment from it is obligatory

discernment, is an ordained obligation.

For one who sees, an obligation

والذي تخفى مقاصدُه

والذي تخفى مقاصدُه

إنه يصبر على مضض

إنه يصبر على مضض

And he whose aims remain hidden

And one whose aims are hidden

indeed endures with bitter reluctance.

Is patient with discontent

ويعزي نفسه في الذي

ويعزي نفسه في الذي

فاته بقوله لو قضى

فاته بقوله لو قضى

He consoles himself over what

And consoles himself for what

eluded him, saying, ‘Had He decreed it...’

Escaped him by saying "if it was decreed"

وتمجُّ النفس حكمته

وتمجُّ النفس حكمته

فتراه دائم الحَرَض

فتراه دائم الحَرَض

And the soul spits out his wisdom,

And the soul becomes accustomed to his wisdom

so you see him perpetually wasting away.

So you see him always fervent

تارة يموتُ من شرق

تارة يموتُ من شرق

تارة يموتُ من جَرَض

تارة يموتُ من جَرَض

At times he dies choking on liquid;

Sometimes dying of love in the east

at times he dies choking on saliva.

Sometimes dying of love in the west

وإذا ما مات من غصص

وإذا ما مات من غصص

ربما يظنُّ فيه رضى

ربما يظنُّ فيه رضى

And when he dies of choking pangs,

And if he dies of agonies

perhaps one imagines contentment in him.

He may think there is consent in it

والذي تفوته حكمي

والذي تفوته حكمي

ما لها والله من عرضِ

ما لها والله من عرضِ

And the one whom my maxims elude—

As for the one whom my wisdom misses

by God, they have no worldly gain.

It has no attribute, by God

هي كالمصباح نيَّرة

هي كالمصباح نيَّرة

مدَّه زيتٌ يكاد يُضي

مدَّه زيتٌ يكاد يُضي

They are radiant, like a lamp,

It is like a lamp, shining

fed by oil that almost shines.

Fueled by oil that nearly ignites

ما لهه مَيْلٌ إلى جهةٍ

ما لهه مَيْلٌ إلى جهةٍ

لوجودِ الاعتدال مضى

لوجودِ الاعتدال مضى

It has no inclination toward any direction;

It has no inclination to any direction

by virtue of equilibrium, it has gone on.

Due to the presence of equilibrium, it continues