1. Her father shows you misery in his revelry
And her mother mourns in days of merriment

2. Sorrow embodied looms above their heads
Alas, embodied sorrow looms

3. None of Layla's family between this and that except one man
Who sees life pitiful and the end ambiguous

4. The doctor feels her pulse and his hand
Appears as a youth before the girl and frozen

5. He glances at Layla and looks after her
To a pillar of the house adhering

6. Consoling him with the eye that Lord's glance
With it towards the lofty transcending speech

7. And when he bent by the door upon leaving
He bids some sorrow to the family farewell

8. Her family clung to her as if
They want to take her to the sky

9. Then love of healing made her speak and she showed
Them her despair and despair in them embodied

10. And said, you cry for my plight but there was not
For its fires but obstinacy harmful

11. You grieve for my death yet before it
You sent my heart smitten as it was enamored

12. So why do I see you all around my bier
Except one after me who will live enamored

13. Each staring at my misery
And I thank my plight, ah will not proceed

14. Let him on the day of my departure be present
A girl who saw the life of disgrace forbidden

15. Let his eyes see my evenings for I have
A heart that when the beloved comes, luxuriates

16. Let me bid farewell to the one I was fatally in love with
Sorrow openly mentioning his name

17. And her cousin came, his face yellowing
Whenever we moved away from her a little and spoke

18. Then the spirit returned to her and her mouth smiled
As did the mouths of the people when she smiled

19. And she said to them, leave my beloved beside me
A little, so they all left and he proceeded

20. She gestured to the chair and when he sat in it
On her cheek the tears symmetrically streamed

21. And she said in a voice that makes the juicy dry
"My death has come if my death is destined"

22. But I have a perilous secret I want to
Tell you so you can awaken and learn

23. Therein is my death, my comfort
That I hope for, so listen to my oath

24. And when she opened her mouth to reveal her love
She died before she could speak