1. You in our separation and this estrangement
O Salima, you have crossed every limit

2. O Salima, you were too harsh in estranging
O Salima, with a lover in anguish sunk

3. You have a body that almost melts with gentleness
And a heart harder than solid rock

4. And my heart has a longing for you I see
Will soon drag me to ruin and destruction

5. O Salima, do not sever the rope of my connection
And sever, if you wish, the rope of my veins

6. Hasten so I die in you, otherwise
Allow me a glance from afar

7. How could you justify breaking promises
That you made before witnesses?

8. By whom you justified it, O Salima
For my life, the jealous' hearts gloat

9. Excuse me, even with a promise, for I
O Salima, am content with promises

10. How sweet is the life we could spend
If we found someone to renew its promise

11. Those promises are gone, alas
Then alas from me for those promises

12. The swaying of the lithe figure, Salima
For my life, was stingy, so my eyes pour generously

13. Long has been my rebuke of a time that cast me
With disasters that equal the slain Al-Walid's head

14. Many a night I spent sleepless in longing for you
Present in worry, absent in my witnesses

15. I watch the stars in it, my star Al-Thurayya
With eyes that never tasted the sweetness of sleep

16. Sorrows that diminish the edge of the meadows
And worries that eat the heart of iron

17. I remained seeing the stars until
Dawn shone clearly like a pillar

18. Or like the glimmer of despair that appeared
Or like a promise that traveled after a threat

19. And its light scattered what the night
Had of dark veils of woe