1. Shall I abandon Layla, no, never!
What patience have you against beautiful Layla?

2. I ask about Layla, whom if I met
In privacy between the tents and veils

3. I would incline to Layla with my soul
Though it be the days of slaughter and pilgrimage

4. Shall God despise me, that I remember her
And tell my friends of her on the night of immolation