1. My two friends bend your course and greet Zeinab today
And do not forsake me, my companions, and go away

2. When we fulfill a wish of an ailing soul
And the eye attains the object of its desire, then ride

3. For if you both call me for the like of it
To a need, be assured, do not be blamed

4. I say to a fault-finder who asked me while gloating
He tried to make strife between us for a while and brought about separation

5. The question of a man who pretends to give us good advice
Yet hides malice amidst the advice

6. On the pledge of Layla like an open desert that
Became clear to us, may God guide him to what he caused

7. Slanderers with her after I became estranged that
Woe unto him from slander against us he struck

8. If Layla has been harsh to me and obeyed
The consequence from one who betrayed and lied

9. She has spurned a soul devoted to her
And a heart that obeyed in her the beloved intimate

10. I am not, even if Layla turns away with her love
And the remainder of the connection with her became severed

11. With a blamer other than a custom of virtue upon her and a gloating
Witness around me present and absent

12. Still, I must say while the fault finder is a prattler
When he is grieved

13. So no welcome to those who gloat at her estrangement
And a time that has changed with her and alternated

14. Still within me is what she inspired of passion
And sickness which I grew weary of one who played the physician

15. And abundant tears of the eye such that if
An enemy saw me grinning he would show aversion

16. The celestial throne was a comfort to the heart I lived remembering her
So I have longed for it since I loved being drawn to her

17. So how much adversity have you gathered with power
And gathered and forked one it forked