1. Ask a stone, if you come to stony ground
About the deer, the lost and wandering

2. My pledge to him, he who is like a bold lion
Roaring or howling, a lion in his lair

3. Its burrows protect the eyes of the deer
Or with its claws, their fierce defender

4. I lived a quarter of my life in its shade
My heart joyful, my gaze delighted

5. I walked in the garden of bliss carefree
In the coolness of youth’s bloom

6. The breeze making its sun shine through its veins
Dispelling from us the darkness of thoughts

7. The lost gazelle looks with a sleepy eye
Dejected amongst the passionate lovers

8. It blocks me like a gazelle fleeing
My soul is ransom for that fleeing gazelle

9. Oh, rememberer of the days of love
You have stirred the sorrows of the longing lover

10. It is as if when I remember them
My heart is suspended between the wings of a bird

11. O neighbor of my heart, prisoner of their love
Gently, with the confused, captive heart

12. You have walked visiting passions, and my loved ones
Following your footsteps

13. Had you tasted my tears to quench you
I would have washed you with tears from the raining clouds

14. You crossed the darkness of the bright night
With the illumination of your shining moons

15. The fragrance of the valley you traveled awakens
The delicate, pure, fragrant perfume

16. By God, the riding camels with their burrows
The blossoms and the fragrance of flowers

17. From a cheek that smiles from dimples
Sweet saliva, the essence of pearls

18. Sweet produce flowing through his pearls
The glory of high lineage in drinking

19. With the ornaments of beauty she was adorned
Becoming a gazelle in the meadow of splendor

20. My homeland is Arabian though her glances
When she gazes with an enchanting eye

21.
Say to the critic with her sword-like glances

22. What is between the earths is not defiant
Oh, blame the passionate lover!

23. If you tasted the flavor of love, you'd be excusing me
Leave me and my passions, and submit to love

24. I've become empty of a confused love
And beware lest you attack it

25. With swords flashing from the stones
I declared my secret openly in love

26. And the joy of passion is for the open
You don't know the joy of estrangement

27. When it comes the union of the departed lover
For love, there are others besides you

28. Who cheapened what was expensive to behold
No long night for Layla except

29. The long night of sadness keeping vigil
So from the effort of the questioner saying

30. Is there for you, O night of passion, an end?