1. You and I have returned
To the universe as Qays and Layla

2. If it is true that we will come
After perishing where we were

3. My hope for people is an opinion
That carries meaning in words

4. As long as the soul remains
Do not make the resurrection mere conjecture

5. Their two souls will return
Without doubt back to us

6. For the body is but water and clay
And after a while it will perish

7. Or end up for the winds
To scatter it here and there

8. And the soul, as long as it is within us
When it leaves us, it leaves from us

9. And maybe Moses' soul
Returned to the elements of Henna

10. Or in the folds of a garden
Where it stirred a branch

11. Or it peered from a cloud
And poured from it rain

12. So the souls of sailors
Possess the nautilus

13. And the souls of the virtuous
Choose the righteous as residence

14. Oh, if only we knew today
Where they were on earth

15. So we meet where they were
And settle where we were

16. Let us join whatever we stood up
And move wherever we desired

17. And let life be taken in love
And let us compose love into a melody

18. And let us take shade under any branch
From atop which a bird sang

19. Perhaps Majnun for Layla
Is overlooking us from it

20. Listening to the two lovers
Who perfected love's art

21. And maybe he repeats
Our melodies after us

22. And behind him the specter of Layla
A graceful gazelle sings