1. Slow down, my brother, you have not endured what I have endured
My soul almost slips away with my breath

2. In speech comes the eloquence of the young man
While blindness has not benefited you from silence

3. Wisdom is in silence so leave off from speaking
If silence is better for you than prattling

4. If you are harsh to me, I am a man
Who is patient and forbearing, though I may be treated harshly

5. Say, O faultfinder in his love
You know not who I love nor whom I desire

6. Salma is the soul, and the fancy of the young man
I was pleased by her with that which pleased me

7. From love of Salma my tears flowed copiously
Depriving me of sleep and scattering my thoughts

8. I am dying from yearning for her face
And if I saw her in my dreams I would come alive

9. Oh, how wonderful is Salma in her aloofness
She turned me away and my heart is utterly destroyed

10. And on the day the beloved went away
I reminded her but she said "I forgot"

11. Sometimes she goes to a neck
Where spiders intend to meet her

12. In days of estrangement she was unkind to me
And were it not for love of her I would not have felt it

13. When she saw me drowning in passion
Struggling with death, utterly devastated

14. She said "His death is near"
But I said "Not every sick person dies"

15. In God's hands so do not worry
If I die of lovesickness or am cured

16. In a blessed, chaste coffin I will be prayed over
When the prayer is prolonged and the supplication continues

17. I prepared it at night for Malik
Missing regiments while others do not miss

18. When she came he said "Welcome!"
"To whom the houses are contracted"

19. With the like of her the young man gives his money
And the money of the wealthy is inheritance and bequest

20. For the one who marries you I have abundant wealth
Remaining for him as long as I remain

21. From the sustenance of God by which I survive
The sustained live comfortably, I have found