1. To you, so it's not an obligation to blame me
Sad, alone in sorrows

2. Leave him be, let him vent, may he find
For his complaints a kind, merciful heart

3. Oh my friend, here is the mosque
And there, the pastures of the docile deer

4. Greet them and say, "Peace from Salim
To the virtuous, upon the gentle meadow"

5. And ask the gazelles of Wadi Bani Salim
When you stray from the ancient covenant

6. Excuse me, for I have no gardens
Where I meet the wild beasts of the wasteland

7. With the fever's burning thirst leaves
Its draughts quenched my burning thirst

8. And in those tents the crescent moon of Khadar
My passion in loving him is my destiny

9. I asked but found no generosity in him
How could I expect generosity from a generous beloved?

10. He quenched my body from his waist and related
Correctly the narrative of the frail

11. His erect member fears breaking
So it does not stop swaying with the breeze

12. Does desire make me hope for a union with him
When without his union is the hunting of stars?

13. No, by his erect member and his mouth
That mocks necklaces of symmetrical pearls

14. By the dawn beneath his shining veil
And the night above his splendid cloak

15. Indeed, his glances have unsheathed
Swords, not harmless blades