1. I made pilgrimage to the holy house as a pilgrim
And for love in it I have taken a pilgrimage

2. Whenever love shook me, I reckoned
With whom I fell in love, twenty pilgrimages

3. Yet I did not know whom I loved, nor did I know patience
Verily she is Salma whom I called to understand her

4. Inaccessible, I could not grasp her essence
Reason was too weak to win her likeness

5. My eyes did not look upon the beauty of her face
Nor my ears hear her mentioned ever

6. She manifested openly while the wilderness was in blindness
Except for those who tasted perishing in her and lived in bliss

7. And I kept striving to please her with determination
Until lightening flashed from the side of the valley

8. Gladdening me one day and tormenting me for an age