1. Oh Layla, your estrangement has been long
Until my heart became a victim of your love

2. And my body from me is melting in the heat of the fire of longing
Is there any hope for me in meeting you?

3. If only you knew that I wander crazily in love of you
And that the cure for the malady of lovers is your love

4. Do not be stingy with union, I am a lover
I have no doctor among people except you

5. Join me, for I cannot endure separation
Do not abandon me, I who am madly in love with you

6. And who can prevent you from joining with the beloved?
Did your brother prevent you from joining the beloved?

7. What harm can it do you if you join a tortured one
Sick at heart who cannot forget you?

8. God cares for those who persist in their love
And cared for those who cared for passion and cared for you

9. Perhaps you, radiance of glances, will join
A pillar in love for you, hoping for you

10. So decide as you wish, sailing on the horizon
For I am made, and those near you, a sacrifice for you

11. If not for you, passion would not have wasted my body
Nor would I become sleepless in love, if not for you

12. Sorrow has destroyed my patience and lessened my composure
And my longing increased, then you were absent from me

13. No wonder that the lovesick sells himself
If he, O Layla, kisses your mouth

14. I have sold myself in you in absolute sale
Strange is he who sold himself and bought you!

15. You who have tortured my heart in existence
Until death, and your estrangement continues

16. Have you no mercy on the hopeful one
Who is incarcerated, hoping for your return?

17. If you would have mercy, it would be best for him
Who spends his nights and days in your shelter

18. From you comes love, rejection, estrangement and torture
All has occurred by your consent

19. My body is frail, it does not cease from passion
Until it became from its illness like your tinder

20. If there is shame in union, I see no shame
That I should kiss your mouth

21. Is that your lightning smile that flashed from a cheek
Or is that, O Layla, the glow of your teeth?

22. I and all people, O my wish
All of us follow the glow of your teeth

23. My soul, my heart and my eyelids, all of them
And those who blame, and those who see you and protect you

24. Watering for the days of youth that have passed and not
Returned to their usual watering place and your watering place

25. No good in praise unless it be
About the sharp sword, the shining blade