1. Remember Salma after what prevented her
From being near made absence bearable, are you patient?

2. For you yearn for Salma like a young man
As thousands of mounted camels yearned

3. And I did not know before her that this passion
Increases longing when camels yearn

4. Oh how wonderful Salma is to the heart and how wonderful
Her visit would be if we could visit each other

5. She was stingy with affection as if she were
A sincere friend the graves took away

6. So if I bid her farewell and shunned her
It was not out of resentment that I shunned her

7. Oh, if only we had never been neighbors before
Oh, if only cohabitation had lasted

8. When I seek solace from her, a mediator of love says
The tryst of solace is the graves

9. She will keep for her in the mind's fold and the soul's intimacy
A secret affection the day secrets perish

10. And every mixture inevitably
One day in fate headed towards separation

11. And whoever fears what will inevitably happen
It befalls him even if he does not fear it