رأت أطلال سلما بعد بعدٍ

عيون نورها أطلال سلما

She saw the ruins of Salma in the distance

Her eyes are the ruins of Salma

فأدهشها الشهود وفيه غابت

بلذة ما رأت عما وعما

She was amazed by the witnessing and in it she was absent

With the pleasure of what she saw from what and from what

تطيب لأعين القوم المرائي

إذا جمعت على الأسرار حكما

Good sights please people's eyes

When wisdom is gathered for secrets

و يرق في الغوير أهاج منا

هياماً سربل الألباب هما

And the love stirs for the passionate one who is clad in robes of hearts' wisdom

It hinted to the people of those regions

أشار لأهل هاتيك النواحي

وقد ملأ البعاد الركب سقما

And the caravan had filled the distances with sickness

By your life, O Houaidna, help us

لعمرك يا حويدنا أغثنا

بصوتك واعط هذى العيسر عزما

With your voice and give this hardship resolve

For us in Hajar and the land of Sellu

لنا في حاجر و بأرض سلع

مآرب بالتباعد لن تتما

There are motives in the distance that will not be complete

So bring us close to it, we will ransom you

فقربنا لها نفديك إنا

رأينا من شؤن البعد هضما

We have seen from the state of distance indignity

Let us shed tears with it, so the eyes will be generous to us and tear

ودعنا نستسيل بها عيوناً

تجود لنا العيون بها لتدمى

May God protect its green plains

And enliven its west side

رعى الله البقاع الخضر منها

وحيا الجانب الغربي ثما

Plains that can revive the dead

And its intimacy makes the silent stone dance

بقاع قد تعيد الميت حيا

ويرقص أنسها الحجر الأصما

And neighborhoods clothed with the dress of beauty

With it the beads of flowers were strung in order

وأحياء كساها الحسن ثوبا

به انتظمت عقود الزهر نظما

We were deprived of it and it became far from us

And one day bringing near the alive will be a bounty

حرمناها وقد بعدت علينا

ويوما يغد قرب الحي غنما

May The Creator bring us closer to it

And distance our distance generously and forbearingly

عسى الباري يقرِّبنا إليها

ويبعد بعدنا كرماً وحلما

So we drink from the surging waters of lively

Whose longing murmurs and does not silence

فنروى من مياه فجاج حيٍّ

يزمزمها الولوع وليس يظما

And we witness in its expanses beauty

And get drunk within those plains intoxicated

ونشهد في مفاوزها جمالاً

ونسكر ضمن تلك القاع شما

And roam in its valleys and valleys

In which the gardens of Jerusalem threw an arrow

ونشطح من بواديها بوادٍ

به القلت جنان القدس سهما

Yearning to the home and its inhabitants

And the heart fills us with worry and sorrow

نهيم إلى الديار وساكنيها

ويملأنا القلى هما وغما

Without them the universe would be darkness

And the gist of these rulings injustice

ولولاهم لكان الكون عتماً

ومجمل هذه الأحكام ظلما

They came while ignorance had covered the expanses

So the surging of the land bubbled with knowledge

أتوا والجهل قد طمَّ البرايا

فماج بهم فجاج الأرض علما

And the darkness of the universes became light

And the thickness of the nature of those in the universe became understanding

وصارت ظلمةُ الأكوان نوراً

وغلظةُ طبع من في الكون فهما

And the earth has been filled with the secrets of Truth

So days were not capable of concealing it

وقد ملأ الورى أسرار حقٍّ

فما اسطاعت لها الأيامُ كتما

And they are the spirit of the souls of spirits

They ascended in the highest world a star

وهم لحقائق الأرواحٍ روحٌ

علوا في العالم العلوي نجما