1. My benefits with Layla are excessive love for her,
And an agony that I keep to myself and reveal.

2. Does Layla not come near those who come near her?
Nor is intimate with a union to those intimate with her?

3. White, whose cheeks the zephyr kindled, and her eyelids
Were watered from the overflowing cup of the spring rain,

4. In the redness of roses a shape from their flaming,
And for the branch is a share from its bending.

5. She realized I did not please her ardent admirer,
Nor did I listen to the words of her talebearer.

6. And the day departure from her was inevitable for us
On yearning, while loneliness guided its guide,

7. She stood to bid me farewell hastily, and there flowed
Advanced tears from the meeting of her weeping,

8. And she disapproved my turning away from her, so I said:
I head to the Caliph, may he fulfill his promise,

9. To an Imam, his nobility of ancient and remaining
Glory is unmatched,

10. O Caliph of God, glory is not sought
Except through your graces that began to tend to it.

11. So no merit unless you are its wearer,
No flock unless you are its shepherd.

12. A kingdom like Solomon's, to whom wilderness to horizon
And nearby submitted,

13. And proximity for you from God that reveals it
To us with proof however it comes and initiates.

14. When the land's people worshipped and the clouds
Withheld from us until we lost hope for it,

15. And you stood imploring rain for the Muslims, down poured
The deluge of clouds and dripped from its isolation.

16. So no cloud unless its rain poured down,
No meadow unless its valley streamed.

17. The beasts' obedience when they came to you from crevices,
Gazelles and wild goats of kohl-dark eyes,

18. Like the perfumed herd that hides in its burrows
The wafting of fragrance, and shows in its loftiness.

19. Thousands came in haste
To accept what you attempted with it.

20. If you walked it walked, if you stopped it stopped,
Forms to you with glances that followed it.

21. It calms to you to a face it sees for it
Solemnity that increases its glorification of its Seer.

22. Until you crossed the isthmus and separated
In confusion in a wide desert plain.

23. So the river of Nayzak a stream from its streams,
And the plain of Tell an abundance from its abundances.

24. If not for what I knew of you that day when
Even amid the desert waste its rebel obeyed you,

25. I would not have obeyed you among the kings, and you did not
Reveal through gaining them arrogance or misguidance.