1. I advanced humbly towards her, so she showed her pleasure,
And she greeted me, so I revived through her beautiful greeting,

2. She wished well, so she wished well upon my abode against affliction,
My heart, through connection after separation.

3. So distance between us made me lose hope,
And falling short of attaining nearness made me despair.

4. But her overflowing grace, veiled from my weary eyes,
Gave me hope for connection after estrangement.

5. And if my camel takes me towards her abode,
I will reach her, otherwise I will die in the land of my exile.

6. The rare connection made me patient after it,
So I faced the glory of connection with my humiliation.

7. I attached my love to her shadows, so I suspended
My hopes in her indifference with my demise.

8. She did not turn away from me or from the right of connection
Except out of respect for me in love and my error.

9. Had she not seen neglect from me of her right,
She would not have denied me connection, and she is my confidante.

10. I would have her, and with a heart in the grasp of her palm,
I would see the rest of existence in the grasp of my palm.

11. So I spent the night of estrangement after connection
Wandering in the fire of passion after my paradise.

12. When you take me out of the intense heat of my ambitions,
I return with despair, entering again the fire of my anguish.

13. How many bodies have I exhausted in the fire of her estrangement,
And she makes me new again for my fervor!

14. How many cycles have cycled upon me in their early days,
Circling me in the cycle after cycle!

15. What is past of my time with her grieves me,
My eyelids dripping with the flames of my sighs.

16. Sorrow pained, so it clothed the disheveled sorrow,
So the renewal of sorrow adorned my old robe.

17. It healed with what it healed my body from my oppression,
My complaint of my existence, but did not heal my bitterness.

18. It gifted my eye in sleep the image of her,
Reproaching my eyelid with vision after my slumber.

19. They said, "You have distracted yourself from love." I said,
"I take refuge in passion from distraction except for my distraction."

20. My heart was marred by the farewell, an hour,
And my joy was repelled by the beautiful promises.

21. Were it not for my clinging in love to her promises,
The agony of separation would not have spared my mind.

22. She lowered herself in her loftiness from my lowly abode,
Not to where my soul had fallen after its ascension.

23. Yet her gentle reproach of me is for consent,
After the roughness of separation, in the shade of togetherness.

24. Her meaning gleamed to my eyes without form
And was not coupled, when appearing, with form.

25. Nor was she transferred from being disembodied,
Even if beheld in a form like my form.

26. She occupies the sights and hearts of all
When veiled after appearance with absence.

27. So one knowledgeable of the divine recognizes her in creation,
While the ignorant denies her the first time.

28. She displays her grace in requital
Over her justice with the deserving of punishment.

29. Her clarity on the plane of manifestation captivated me,
So to my eyes she was the clarity of my eyes.

30. What the eye witnessed was her meaning, not her being,
And any form was but the example of my form.

31. I protected my hearing from her critics
With my sincere allegiance to her and my zeal.

32. And I disobeyed those who criticize her, if only
She were more compliant to some of my hopes.

33. I distanced myself in her from my family, drawing near
To those who love her from faraway lands.

34. I emigrated in her beyond emigrants for her beauty,
And joined in her those engulfed in agony.

35. I struggled against my soul fully in her estrangement
With my patience over what pleased it of tribulation.

36. And in fasting I paid the alms to its people,
And on their feast day I paid my charity.

37. I stood for the rules of obligations openly,
And followed them with supererogation after obligation.

38. I allied those who allied her family, extending
Enmity in love to the enemy of my allegiance.

39. I came close as the missionaries lowered themselves for her beauty
By casting off piety in her, and not hypocrisy.

40. And when the days of intimacy between us lengthened,
And my state in separation narrowed my maneuvers,

41. I made my prayers in passion for her
Connection after separation my connection.

42. I purified my limbs by recognizing those whose
Ranks in the world of passion guided me.

43. I oriented my face in my direction towards her face,
So wherever I looked to her, it was my direction of prayer.

44. To her I pray devoutly to her Originator
With her beautiful names, steadfast.

45. When Layla's lovers saw me following her way,
They became as I desired, my followers.

46. She appeared, so the darkness of displeasure disappeared in pleasure,
And the bitterness of life dissolved in sweetness.

47. So my inclination towards her came when she came inclined,
And she turned away when the object of my craving turned away.

48. She showed my eye in the darkness of veil her fire,
To unveil for me her light after my heedlessness.

49. So I called to my companions, "Stay, that we may see
The guidance to the lights from the lofty fire."

50. When we descended the valley of holiness,
The suns of humanity shone upon us after desolation.

51. So my heart gave me good tidings when
She called me with "Servant," and I became a confidant to her company.

52. I responded to her call and hurried towards her,
And came to my companions swiftly with zeal.

53. I would not have been guided to her path
Had the guide to guidance from misguidance not guided me.

54. When we reached the water of the city of her love,
We found the best nation guarding it for guidance.

55. They ward from it each misguided about passion,
And give drink from it to each fervently thirsty.

56. So I attained through them the heights of passion,
While I had hoped to gain a drink from it.

57. I leaned towards a lofty meadow seeking
The wealth of poverty from the essence of gifts.

58. Veiled for transcending with her majesty
The imagination, Beauty displayed her for my faith.

59. She was not veiled from me by other than me, nor appeared
Without a veil when displaying herself to me.

60. So I affirm in the effacement of vision her vision
By denying boundaries of where in witnessing her.

61. And she makes me witness absence and presence,
And far be it from her absence after presence!

62. Rather the languor of my eye in the sickness of passion
Makes me absent in my witnessing.

63. And verily the light of the sun at its rising
Is veiled from every blind eye.

64. The witness of my eye in seeing her essence
Is like my essence, witness in presence and absence.

65. If vision belies the self in seeing her,
I perceive in the repeated vision my clear sightedness.

66. And I ascertain that her kindness drew near in her
An apparition for my eye in repetition after my slumber.

67. So I stripped its pictured meaning when appearing
Like the limit of place from every picture.

68. And I absolved her existence from being localized
And her attributes from being seen as temporal.

69. And I gave her meaning precedence in love
Over her light described as eternal.

70. And I singled it out without division and did not say
Along with connection, "The light is other than the enlightening."

71. I stand facing time praying to her
With her eternal essence.

72. And I affirm the appearance in ideals when
The ideal is hidden, and deny its mixture with imagination.

73. And I reject embodiment occurring to Layla
That would transport her from us steeds of demise.

74. And I am not like one who spends the night in love lying,
Misleading those of foolish minds.

75. Swearing to the ignorant from the clan of passion
In love without lineage by his claim.

76. And he imagines connection from Sulayma though straying
Has distanced him from her by wandering astray.

77. And he claims at times that he is her essence
And denies at times that she dwells in him.

78. And by his claim in love he becomes her servant in the morning
And her master without precedence.

79. So his ignorance combines between contradictions,
Which is impossible for sound minds.

80. And he deviates from the justice of love, erring,
Seeking union of distinct existents.

81. How can union be valid when the witnessing
Of vision shows opposites, as some proofs?

82. The truth is only what I say, so if you want
The echo to cease, return in passion my way.

83. And take from me in love the discourse of the passion
Whose beauty tongues describing it falls short of.

84. The subtle meanings of beauty manifested through her beauty,
And from her all the subtle meanings appeared.

85. Her overflowing generosity revealed the outpouring of existence,
So her will showed the veil of will.

86. So for it a door of mercy appeared from its light,
Revealing from it the essence of the highest rank.

87. So through it the existence of the confidant occurred, and from its
Traits the chosen one of her world of holiness occurred.

88. And the sincere one in love occurred through it, and from it
The purifier was displayed in affection.

89. The tester of love whose existence occurred
Showed through her confidant the innate dispositions.

90. And she meticulously measured with fate the wishes
Of the lady of beauty without consideration.

91. In cycles appearing without flaws to guide us
To the return of days of reunion like crescent moons.

92. She revealed mysteries in the eyes and did not cease
To be at the horizon of the highest celestial sphere.

93. Nor did the bodies settle upon her appearance
To our vision in the human form.

94. Nor did she betray with might after her victory,
Nor was she incapable in her essence after omnipotence.

95. The proofs of my heart in the love of her whose beauty
Proved her beauty all proofs have proved.

96. Had the eye of proof not been for her eye
And her argument, it would not have shown my argument for her.

97. And I am not a claimant by my affiliation to passion,
Since my lineage is established amongst lovers.

98. So if you want to gain the solution to what
I have built upon it in passion my belief,

99. Then cling to a trusted one inclined from passion
To show you after error the guidance of my path.

100. For if you are born to him, you will attain comfort, born
To a self purified by the concept of passion.

101. Whoever travels miles in love of a sublime one
Reaches the destined time of lovers.

102. And he will not gain her connection except by dashing
The riding beast, unless resolved upon its slaughter.

103. The Hajj in the law of love is but the form
Expressing the hidden meanings.

104. It is the path of guidance for those walking its path,
Its miles and moons of the sun of guardianship.

105. The best guide for guidance is its guide,
And its company for the guided is the best company.

106. And the provision of piety for lovers is its provision,
And its mount carries them with resolve.

107. Its hidden poet is he whom passion inspired
With what my talent composed in passion.

108. Its courtyard is a fortress for whoever takes refuge in it
Against alliance with the bigoted.

109. Its clarity is the clarity of heart from any turbidity through it
And its manliness therein is the perfection of manliness.

110. Its Zamzam is protection, with its water
Removing disharmony from every pure soul.

111. Its Kaaba is protection with the light of its whiteness that
Prepared my eyeight for witnessing Beauty.

112. Its pinnacle above the pinnacle of beauty is evident
To its hidden, veiled from every eye.

113. I am indeed one who made Hajj to the Kaaba of her beauty
And my Hajj to her love perfected with my Umrah.

114. And in the intimacy of connection, love acquainted me
My station of proximity in passion by her nearness.

115. I am at the peak of passion in love of her
Though the ignorant disparage me, lacking my status.

116. So that is my attempt to convey the meaning of the poem from Arabic to English. I aimed to preserve the content and capture the essence while adapting the rhyme and style to English poetry conventions. Please let me know if you would like me to clarify or expand on any part of the translation.