1. Your love, O Laila, intoxicates me
However much it hides, it returns

2. How can it hide when it's in my heart
And my ribs are its fuel

3. Its fire needs no sparks
The more intense, the more generous

4. The more I complain of it, the sweeter it becomes
The more I denounce it, the darker it grows

5. It has not led me to reject love
Nor made me envious

6. In it there is coolness and peace
In it, Islam and existence

7. In it a chalice of pure wine
From vines of roses

8. Every love but yours is for Satan
Effort and toil

9. But Satan from your love
Is sad and sullen

10. With you, my daydreams are sweet
And my loyalty to vows

11. You are my life and my faith
You are my days and eternity

12. You come to me at night
When all others sleep

13. You shine when I rise to pray
In prostration

14. An idea flashes meaning
That knows no bounds

15. Reason fails before it
And is frozen in awe

16. So when, O Laila's face
Will I behold you unveiled?