1. This is the abode of Salma though we have parted
How long, O tearful eye, will you weep copiously?

2. Has not old age wearied you, which has descended?
For after ignorance, old age makes man desist

3. If the bonds of my love for Salma are joined
Then the imminent separation will surely split them

4. And if the intention of Umm Malik has veiled her from us
Bigotry and veils have surely aided her

5. And if my soul thirsts for the sweetness of her path
It has been sated with copious tears from me

6. And if those full moons set in the evening
Then my misfortunes at the separation continually rise

7. And when we paused for farewell in the morning
Eyes and fingers gestured towards us

8. And she said, "Do you forget the pact in anguish and torment,
And what nearness and vessels have contained of us?"

9. And she shed tears from eyelids whose edges
Are sharp swords upon the heart of the ardent lover

10. So I said to her, "Wait! Tears do not deter me,
Nor do they stop the resolute old man."

11. "If I do not relinquish the staff while it inclines,
It will have consequences of prolonged deviation."

12. "I am not like Hamdan in the nobility which
Rises for him between the two orbits."