1. Leila, in secret, sends messengers to blame me
Claiming I'm fickle and unfaithful

2. Yet she has broken every promise between us
While, by God, I have not willfully betrayed our word

3. So I told the messenger when he came:
"Her words bode only ill for you"

4. "Greet her, and say: Leave off injustice, Leila
And walk the straight path of equity"

5. "Does my absence cause you sickness, nights on end?
Yet you only add, Leila, to my own weary load"

6. "You count a single sin I never committed
While your own cannot be numbered"

7. "If you wish, I shall swear off all women but you
If you wish, I shall not taste broth or bread"

8. "And if you wish, we shall leave after you
Not stopping in Mecca until we meet again in Nejd"