1. Oh let us revive the dwellings of the beloved and revitalize,
The era of intimacy and the bygone youth,

2. For the perseverance of love has kindled embers in the thickets,
Sparks from it, no complainer constructs,

3. And the auspices of my heart gladdened my tears,
And I have the right to weep if love resided in me,

4. My beloved, patience is disgraceful for the young man,
When he sees a place of refuge for the loved ones emboldened,

5. Did you not see the ruins that drew my tears?
And no old abode was ever aroused that did not rouse me,

6. So turn to it and pardon me in sorrow,
And if you don’t turn then accept my excuse,

7. So whoever blames me for the outpouring of my tears,
My grief and reminiscence, is not one who would entice me,

8. Dwellings - no matter how much I tried to forget them -
My passion and recollection of them resisted forgetting,

9. And even if I attempted to conceal the nightingales and the thickets
My tears reveal what I had kept hidden,

10. It reminds me of Layla however much I remembered her
The sighs of my heart increased and my tears streamed,

11. And the turtledoves’ song of their union reminds me of her
When the foliage of the doves returns to singing,

12. Nights when Layla bestows their union upon us
Thus making our days blissful when she aids,

13. She appeared and showed me our joy and delight
At night and under the full moon appearing,

14. As a house, light, blossoming and bursting open
And thickets, wild roses, soft and supple,

15. I will weep for Layla even if I become distant
Since the separation of love makes the young man weep,

16. And if she did not maintain affection between us
Then I will not cease to harbor affection,

17. And I have not detached from her bond
Nor have I become consoled from remembering her,

18. But excuse me – when I saw a dispraiser
Trying to detract and objecting to us,

19. Attempting to detract while he is blameworthy for detraction
Prepared for the means of livelihood to be captive,

20. And it does not hurt me that the lowlife dispraised me
With something Allah and people have exonerated me from,

21. If he says something, the case falsifies his words
And if I say something, people verify my words