1. Her beauty's charms enchanted liberty,
No Sulayma nor Jamal Sumayya could compare.

2. It's everyone's dream but
Human nature overburdened him.

3. How strange that one be created free
Yet deny himself liberty!

4. Ghada never knew an empty heart
Free of passion for her, even the vacant hearts.

5. In his heart she planted love a child
That grew as one with the heart inside.

6. When passion spread and secret things
Of them both circulated earthly rings

7. They hid her, hoping he'd forget but, no,
He was Qays and she the immortal Layla.

8. The wretched lover spends night bemoaning fate
As she's prevented from seeing her wretched mate.

9. A resolute king who long has passed
In chains and shackles holding fast.

10. Upon him there's a guard of time
Enamored of fictitious prime.

11. All have their hopes and dreams
Each would give his soul to gain.

12. To him the highest of all things
Though it be the lowest earthlings.

13. They claimed that he's the ransomed king
To save his people from each sting.

14. But people ransom the ruled king
Who gives himself, the people's, offering.

15. He oppressed the folk, they fancied him
The Russian nation's saving kin.

16. Whenever the weak are oppressed by the strong
The proud souls forget their weakness lifelong.