1. I bid farewell to your chest, the full moon, and the sea,
And I bid farewell to my heart after our separation, a burning coal.

2. I blame my journey away from you, though I had praised it
To reach you, without you I would not have praised the journey.

3. I will lose my patience when I come to bid farewell,
And I will be like Moses when he could not bear to be patient.

4. You made me forget my family though I was still forgetting them,
Either forgetting them or remembering them with remembrance.

5. And you substituted for me a home with homes,
And replaced for me a father with a dutiful father.

6. Life turned sweet in your company, or you made it a tender young branch,
It flowed until I almost thought it was a wrist.

7. Fate cast me to you until if I grasped the palm of fate,
I would have kissed it ten times.

8. I thirsted to give thanks befitting it,
And I was amazed by a thirst that crossed the sea.

9. So if I am absent remember me, for I am a believer,
No believer except remembrance benefits him.