 1) this phrase is originally and a gentle strengthening for him who is sick and infirm and a medicine for him who is intensified by desire. and in barshis reading and a gentle strengthening for him who is sick and infirm and a medicine for him who is intensified by desire. and according to the reading that i suggest the meaning of the phrase is the reproach of a friend is a strengthening of a nature that has been exhausted by poverty and has been overcome by corruption . and this reproach itself restores desire and its condition becomes balanced. barshi means. in most editions a pause.
 هذه العبارة في الأصل وتقوية لطيفة لها عرض وعمل ودواء تشتد عليه الشهوة؛ وفي قراءة برشيه وتقوية لطيفة لما مرض وعل ودواء لمن تشتد عليه الشهوة، وحسب القراءة التي اقترحها يكون معنى العبارة إن عذل الصديق تقوية لطبيعة قد انهكها الدنف وغلب عليها الفساد وهذا العذل نفسه تستد عليه الشهوة ويعتدل حالها. برشيه يراد. في معظم الطبعات وقفا.