1. Tell me about passion, tell me
And stir up the depths of sorrows

2. About the nights of Na'aman, my tears flowed
What the lute left of Na'aman

3. About the cups of youth passed around us
While the insomniacs, eyelids, keep vigil

4. O my Salima! In conversations there is solace
Tell me about what has passed, tell me

5. This sapling has withered in sorrow
And its waterer has watered it from contempt

6. How its branches melt, thirsty
While I water it from my tears

7. It needs the compassion of a girl
So shed a tear of sorrow to revive it

8. Never begrudge it a tear
Loyalty requires that you weep for it

9. And shed on it poetry, perfume and wine
Indeed in tears there is respite for the sorrowful

10. The breeze has withheld from it for nights
Oh! What the breeze has inflicted on it

11. It was stingy in its gentle tune with it
After generosity, even the generous may be stingy

12. So take up the flute and follow me to it
For kindness requires consoling the afflicted

13. Let it hear the voice of angels returning
Its glory is your gentle, sublime voice

14. And repeat the melody of spring, for in it
Is what it longed for of passion and yearning

15. Salima shed its tears so she revived
The withered branches and leaves

16. And it sang its melodies so it stirred
The dormant sorrows and longings

17. It adorned the sapling’s barrenness with generosity
The clouds pouring from the water skins

18. And it restored the springtime to it
Since it watered it with the dripping cloud

19. And it loved it with the breaths of its perfume
That intoxicate the birds above the branches

20. The feelings of affection in Salma's heart
May God honor these feelings

21. What poetry has not settled into her intoxicating melodies
Embroidered into its melodies

22. How intense is the darkness were it not for a ray
That sends light into the girl's eyes

23. O ray of the eyes extinguishing the stars
You guide me in the darkness of sorrow

24. O ray of the eyes, through you we read
The secret of this subtle life

25. God's blessing you are in the universe, without you
Sadness and constriction would pervade existence

26. On nights of worries you send light
An innovation of fragrance and passion so we awaken

27. Creator of the universe, He has blessed you as solace
To heal the wounds of His creation

28. We would not love life if it were misery
People without you, O ray of the eyes

29. A tear from Haifa Khud’s eyes
Creates compassion in the hearts of the cruel

30. A smile in life from her lips
Sends light into the darkness of life

31. A touch of her fingers, and it is cheap
Quenching those thirsty souls

32. A waft from her breasts is the secret of what
We enjoy of wafts between pastures

33. She is the secret of life, God’s hymn
Healing the stubborn latent disease

34. I love without hope, and what
Is the state of a lover who loves without hope

35. Wretched, O daughter of dawn, miserable
Restrain the tears of the miserable

36. And have mercy on me, for tomorrow God will grant
Radiance to the faces of the merciful

37. Grant me a sapling that has endured what
Endured upon it of light and brilliance

38. I am more miserable than it and my soul is more thirsty
Make me happy for it is just that you make me happy

39. This is my confession before the priestess of love
Can my confession forgive my sins

40. To the God of passion my prayers and devotion
And around the house of love is my circumambulation

41. My ancestors circled its temple
And my forefathers prostrated around its corner

42. I am satisfied with a glance or a promise
From you to the latent ailment, a healing

43. So promise me and do not exonerate, just account
The bliss of life that you promise me