1. O sheikh who is not pleased with us
You have been wretched and did not attain any ease in your life

2. You made me wretched just as you made yourself wretched and left me
To wander aimlessly with the doomed, unable to close my eyes in sleep

3. By the One who destroyed me with Layla's affliction
And purified for Layla my sincere affection

4. I would have given consent in Layla to whoever buys her
Even if they blamed me more and compounded the debt

5. So many are those who remember Layla and live in misery
That my heart trembles when they mention her in longing

6. By the truth of passion, I sense from passion
A fire in my liver and pleasure in my bones

7. It's as if my heart is in the claws of a bird
That clutches it when the soul remembers her in yearning

8. It's as if the horizons of the earth are a ring
Encircling me, neither lengthening nor widening

9. I'm overcome with delirium, so my bed is prepared for me from the ground
And sometimes I collapse, adhering to the earth

10. I'm content with dying for her love because
I see her love as inevitable and obeying her a duty

11. When Layla is remembered I wander in her remembrance
And my soul's purpose was her and I was content with her

12. If I intended patience or solace in other than her
I saw all people besides her as paltry