1. O Salma, sustenance is plentiful but silence is best after speech
O Salma, my soul is preoccupied with you

2. Preoccupied with love that will last as long as I live
I do not desire comfort, I am a man

3. Who adorns himself with the love of the one I love
I have endured the hardship of love for you

4. For God's sake, how much hardship I have endured in love
You buried me alive though I am guiltless

5. The living are not buried until they die
So judge as you wish upon a lover

6. Whose heart confesses while his tongue is silent
Rather, O critic of his love

7. Who flows unknowingly, thus dies the lover
You did not know my love and tortured me

8. While longing has nearly taken my soul away
In her slender figure is a wild doe

9. For which my heart is dying and destroying itself
I wake thirsty for her face

10. Longing, and if I was given her mouth to drink from, I'd be sated