1. You have captured my heart with your beauty
So do not be stingy to your lover with your affection

2. I am sick with longing for your eyes
So heal me, else I shall perish

3. The fervent lover aspires to your union
Even if death lies in this union

4. You unjustly forbid the joining of him who loves you
Stingily, even in your imagination

5. The ardent lover cannot forget you
Does his remembrance ever cross your mind?

6. His paths have narrowed around him
And all routes to you are blocked

7. I am weary, though you are not weary of estrangement
Why then are you never weary of my weariness?

8. O gazelle of the meadow, though you are a wild deer
How many lions have been hunted in your snares

9. When you relate the dawn's separation
My wretched fortune tells the tale of your dark moles

10. I say to the critic of your love: may God deafen me
From your words and your speech

11. And between rapture and intimacy afterwards
Like that between your union and your separation

12. You shed blood unlawful from the passionate lover
Why then is your union not made lawful?

13. We begged for the alms of your beauty's union
Does not almsgiving become due upon your beauty?

14. We are in our love for you as you see us
Thirsty ‒ do not put us off with your mind's games

15. May hopes of you grant us our wishes
And may your passion cast us into perdition

16. The souls desire only to meet
And I have fed my soul on your bestowal

17. You refused the roses of those lips to me
So my heart thirsts for your drink

18. Will the Maliki jurists go astray after Layla
If I passionately loved other than you?

19. You were watered from the rain clouds of love
Their trails dragging in your sands

20. I suffer from your gazelles what I suffer
And the greatest of what I endure from your does

21. O heart melting in rapture
I see this passion to be your ruination

22. Passion loads upon you a heavy burden
No hearts can bear what yours has borne

23. Come, let my wandering heart recite about her
For my pact is that it has come to her

24. Do not take me down the paths of temptation
For I am not a wanderer in your path

25. Indeed you have guided ‒ or rather misguided ‒ me therein
So I know not your guidance from your misleading

26. I tolerated patiently while you avoided my love
And here is my state ‒ bereft of you ‒ not your state

27. So do not cunningly take advantage of my patience in any way
Out of inadequacy, I relied upon your tricks

28. And do not rebuke a fervent lover
When would he listen to your words or your speech?

29. The morn of that separation adorns itself
With the blackest black of the night ‒ like your state

30. You have no right to passion and you are justice itself
Oppressing the lover along with your composure

31. Does passion conquer my honor when I
Possess the glory of religion by my excellence?

32. I am praised for my merits and fine traits
I have been praised by people for my deeds

33. You have been granted the utmost of all virtue
In your indulgence in the sciences and your work

34. If the descendants of a house boast of their forebears
Then you are the pride of religion and pride of your house

35. The most wondrous of what we witness in mysteries
Is your marvelous wit and your improvisation

36. And how you have silenced many a skilled speaker with an expression
Thus your eloquence proclaimed your soaring

37. In your mirror there is inspiration for sights
My life for yours informs us of your glory

38. You throw at falsehood and meanings
More strongly than your arrows at your enemy

39. O branch of the prophecy ‒ you are of noble origin
And fruits of virtue are harvested from your perfection

40. Grant us from your help what we hope for
Since what we gained in your example

41. It suffices you that you are the noblest one upon whom
The mantle gained honor from your shoes‘

42. And how many sharp polished swords God has
With divine care being their burnisher

43. We have from your blessed name good omens
Informing your questioners of your fortunate stars

44. I speak not in exaggeration of you ‒ but truth
For exaggeration is a trait of your camels

45. When one day brings us thirst
We will come at your right or your left

46. If you brought forth proof against a people
Those who wish you ill in battle would retreat

47. Each of them has a field
But together they cannot match your field

48. You answer when asked about any art
And frustrate them, unable to answer your questioning

49. You are the most learned of scholars
And you are not the least of them, except in your wealth

50. Yes ‒ they are men in their loftiness
But they were not among your caliber of men

51. You have no deficiency in your perfection
And where is the full moon ever perfect like you?

52. The full moons do not relate
Except your face, your towering, and your journeying

53. Your beautiful traits have told me
That beauty is an essence of your characteristics

54. Interior beauties ‒ all of which are generosity and munificence
Bounties brought together in your essence

55. There is no one who meets you
Except to ask of your knowledge or your gift

56. You befriend every person beautifully
As if people have become your family

57. You have secured me from the fears of nights
And if I remain, then in your essence

58. Your lofty worth has risen to glory
And in my view, your worth is above that

59. I described you with supreme merits
My master, you were nothing but so