1. A lover wept over Layla, his eyes spilling tears
Crying but his weeping did not benefit him

2. Do not blame him, for he is infatuated
With his love for you just as you blame him

3. Stop blaming him, for he is filled
With love for Layla that has overwhelmed him

4. Nothing cures him but her abandonment
While her union would heal him if her lips approached

5. Lips that have kissed away his misery
His kissing between those lips

6. He yearns to meet her, but she has turned
Away from all he desires and refuses to meet him

7. O people, nothing is harder than a lover
Infatuated, whose love does not desire him

8. So alas for the life now past
And words of lament did not benefit what is past

9. We were with him at the Kuthayb dunes
While Layla’s absence made us forget him

10. As for Haifaa, her follow-up is vigilance
Shaking from its peaks, those palm trees

11. O you who light up the valley, clouds have gathered
Over it, watering its pasture

12. As if the blessings coming from it are dew
Whose right hand Fate has made successful

13. Yahya ibn Ibrahim, reviver of dew
After death! What a life you have!