1. My body's here, my heart's over there,
And I, the lover, between the two,

2. Salma's abode - no lover dwelt there,
Except he tasted ruin and woe.

3. A rising whose rise no one knows,
Save a matter that stirs the spheres,

4. Oh for Salma! Oh for Salma's loves!
Can you spare a moment here to shed tears?

5. She is close to us, yet far away,
While we, for her, endure the ache.

6. Oh, if only she came nearer, leaning
So through her you glimpsed my torments.

7. Beware, beware, you'll find, without her,
Parting rends you with blows so dire!

8. Like the Christians, in their claim, "God has born
A son," uttering such awful lies.

9. And the Jews who have said that they
Are God's children - such blasphemy!

10. For its meaning is the parting of something
From the Lord of all being - how can it be?

11. It's a blasphemy my Lord has forbidden them
And prohibited in every way.

12. God has always known everything,
While no thing is there but He.

13. And by revealing the Reminder recited
Nothing was outside of His sway.

14. He is God, none but Him, although
His knowledge the angels convey.

15. Like oceans are they all, and thus
He is their Preserver, as He does say.

16. Far be it from God that something
Could part from Him - say "Far be it!"

17. God encompassed everything, as He has stated,
And each thing passes away in His sway.

18. He is a knowledge belonging to the Most High, so the Reminder
Descending from Him is no parting away.

19. You, O heedless one, who does not know,
Be a knower by your own self's paring away.

20. The moon takes the sun's place at night,
But when dawn comes, it fades away.

21. Your self's shadow is but the night, so wipe out
The sphere of the earth from you, cast it away!

22. He is Light, and anything else is darkness,
So fling from yourself all else, to Him make your way!