1. Peace be upon you, my beautiful Buthaina
My beloved Ibrahim, delight of my soul

2. And if you ask after me, like I were your own eye
Then morning breeze will inform you of my intense love

3. You don’t have what we have, as I
Protect you from the fires of my passion and torment

4. The sparks of love's longing have ignited
With the water of my affairs in passion before my birth

5. I declined and my restless nightingale, my torment
For you, do I enjoy any favor with fate?

6. We stayed up in Nu’man and you slept in Babylon
So this is not how loyalty rules for lovers

7. I perished longing in my life and regret
And the remnant of sorrow left me no respite

8. Ask, did my heart fulfill the pact of love and did
My sad eyes taste it and inscribe on my eyelids?

9. So I implore you, what is the way to meet
While the sands of Zarud are barriers before my craving

10. Maybe the white nights will string our necklace
And we will be as we were in the best union

11. So scattering the nights necessitates stringing them
With the finest wire in a wondrous necklace

12. We will enjoy closeness while the slanderers are heedless
Of fate and the spy at a moment of ignorance

13. So say to the one who strayed confused in bewilderment’s desert:
“Peace of God be upon you” and repel him with that