1. When you came with passion ablaze in you
My love was fading and fire dimming

2. You asked me in sorrow: is there any advice?
And I'm sick at heart: is there any remedy?

3. You came to get medicine for affairs
I have no control over, nor are you to blame

4. You said: if conventions have a tyrannical lord
Doesn't the heart have its own lord?

5. I said: between you and I is truth
Society only has duties and books

6. Laws made by reason in people
So between conscience and reason is war

7. Between heaven and earth there is war, you said
Until people get a heart

8. Months passed and those conversations
Where love dwells and flourishes

9. You asked me once: do you understand my heart?
I said: O Laila, I love you

10. I said: O Laila, how many hearts have I known
Yet my own experience is enough

11. But in your eyes I see what no female glance has seen
And what no human love has touched

12. Would you be that angel, though he came
From hell to propose?

13. Would you be in him what no female has been
And what no human has loved?

14. You examined me and said: doesn't your past
Still have a fire burning?

15. The snakes of paradise still live
And their poison still creeps

16. I said: O Laila, you said after the snakes
Came poetry, sweet and passionate love

17. Shout in your eyes, hopes' babbler
And on your lips, my love and tenderness

18. When life spurns us
No equal poets in the world are we

19. So squeeze my heart into the wine of my blood
And make days into cups

20. Imbibe my draft
And chant: we are

21. In time's ear
Two melodies

22. Love has gathered in us all songs
In my heart were remnants of love

23. Awakening the past and past sins
When you shone on my heart, you wiped

24. My misery and sorrows away
And new love grew in my blood

25. Like my soul's sister in nothingness
No passion has quenched my thirst

26. No love has quenched but my passion
So when I sing, delight diffuses in my songs

27. We have plucked life's gardens as we fancied
Life is but our passion, yours and mine

28. Your eyes brought down upon its desert
From love's sky, my joy and purpose

29. It is a qanun in my hands
Doubt has flown from its strings, so sing

30. Singing is our wine
And desire our fill

31. We will go down in history as a legend
People will recount love of you and I

32. A female whose song is sung like this poetry
Forgetting her, though you wish, is hard

33. What land was she from, that grew
A crop like this, so fertile and rich?

34. What beauty did any female inspire
That tortured me like your ample poetry?

35. My soul draws me close, then casts me away in passion
And my love repels me, though piety restrains me

36. I struggle with my heart in loving you, but it won't obey
And I'm about to be harsh, though I have no strength

37. I feel a weakness in myself that I love
So I resist what is said and told

38. It's as if I fear obeying my critics
So I hear weeping, though I don't understand the hidden meaning

39. I love you, hoping for no gain to befall me
And expend my heart, though I seek no use

40. I used to love a beauty in you I fancied
But now I love in you beyond what I loved

41. I see you on my eyelids, feel you in my blood
And your soul's scent permeates my soul

42. I have mixed you in me like wine mixed with dew
So every limb of mine is infused by you

43. Except I see in all I've said a love
In which misfortune blows

44. The passion that has prolonged my sorrows
Has confused my heart and dimmed my eyes

45. I cannot bear passion for a thousand faces
So leave what I have known, it is enough for me

46. And cast me out from your eyes, and leave me be
Come, in your eyes make me happiest, most miserable

47. In them I'm gladdest, saddest, so leave me be
I love misery, no, I don't love it

48. Come to me, no, leave me be
Who are you? I'm most ignorant, or rather, I know

49. So leave me, and be who you wish to be
You are love in my core, so come to me

50. You are mockery in my sight, so leave me be
You are light in my thought, and darkness

51. In my imagination, and doubt on my brow
Blackness in my blood

52. And worries on my mouth
You are a wedding in my funeral

53. A smile in my hell
And hell in my smile

54. Ah, your eyes! How can I deny
Eyes that drown in love for me, and my heart is theirs, and I'm infatuated

55. When they are flooded with love, care for them overflows
From my tenderness and yearning

56. You are in my thought and soul an ephemeral melody
So demolish it, or demolish me

57. And let me return to wakefulness of the past
To live in the memories of my madness

58. Ah! From your eyes only burning remains in my pasture
Drowning in my hair, confusion in my conscience, and trembling on my eyelids

59. I said: O Laila, your poetry confused me
Misfortunes blow in it

60. Did a wolf come in an angel's guise
Or a deer with a wolf in its heart?

61. The meaning passed fleetingly over my heart
Like flocks over their brother

62. Does the heart know how it was tempted
And how passion tempted it?

63. Leave me, for we have become, we were
And what I feared has happened

64. A passion that crept into my heart and left
With summer, then left

65. With autumn
Like passion comes fiercely

66. And leaves fiercely
A banquet that desire laid out

67. And arrogance and cheerfulness ruled
Scarcely had the wine settled

68. Than doubt showed in the cup
Since the clouds departed me

69. I saw specter in its depth
I poured love's songs in you, and the heart eased

70. So which rebel against my tenderness expanded
And which deformer turned my poetry

71. To barking?
I swore by the name of love, and by your name

72. So by whose name were you swearing?
By my heart's right, and your arrow's right

73. I fear for wickedness to become clear
For misery to eat your body

74. And self and brow be sacrificed
Do the lurkers conceal from me

75. What you create?
I taught love's art in your eyes

76. To lovers
And you are my love, so why do I sing

77. While you are silent?
I said: O Laila, your wisdom is unjust

78. So have mercy, for love, like God, is merciful
You didn't come to me without an innocent heart

79. Only the tongues of slanderers are criminal
In your eyes is a fantasy of her, you said

80. She didn't die, but only sleeps
I wish I had come before her, I said. Had you come

81. You'd have found only skulls in my dust
My heart, O Laila, used to bury its past

82. So it was not tested by those tragedies
When she came, malice faded from my soul

83. And my love took revenge
The snakes left only venom

84. In my gardens and evil in my conscience
Her voice had a faint sound of sorcery

85. And that faint sound was healing
Its larynx disintegrated in the fervor of my soul

86. Annihilating the hissing of those serpents
Her love was cleansing my torment

87. I rose from it to lasting bliss
On your eyes is wondrous magic

88. With heaven's delight in it is smiles
And purity on your brow, O Laila

89. As if the angel still sleeps
Through your tenderness is a passage to God

90. And in your passionate voice, greetings
I, O Laila, am the happiest of people in love

91. My eyes are filled with light and my heart reconciled
Visions will be erased, dreams will crumble

92. And desires wear out, but my love remains
Who could she be, lucky in a love

93. That poured poetry like yours?
What beauty did any female inspire

94. That tortured me like your ample poetry?
My soul draws me close, then casts me away in passion

95. And my love repels me, though piety restrains me
I struggle with my heart in loving you, but it won't obey

96. And I'm about to be harsh, though I have no strength
I feel a weakness in myself that I love

97. So I resist what is said and told
It's as if I fear obeying my critics

98. So I hear weeping, though I don't understand the meaning
I love you, hoping for no gain to befall me

99. And expend my heart, though I seek no use
I used to love a beauty in you I fancied

100. But now I love in you beyond what I loved
I see you on my eyelids, feel you in my blood

101. And your soul's scent permeates my soul
I have mixed you in me like wine mixed with dew

102. So every limb of mine is infused by you
Except I see in all I've said a love

103. In which misfortune blows
The passion that has prolonged my sorrows

104. Has confused my heart and dimmed my eyes
I cannot bear passion for a thousand faces

105. So leave what I have known, it is enough for me
And cast me out from your eyes, and leave me be

106. Come, in your eyes make me happiest, most miserable
In them I'm gladdest, saddest, so leave me be

107. I love misery, no, I don't love it
Come to me, no, leave me be

108. Who are you? I'm most ignorant, or rather, I know
So leave me, and be who you wish to be

109. You are love in my core, so come to me
You are mockery in my sight, so leave me be

110. You are light in my thought, and darkness
In my imagination, and doubt on my brow

111. Blackness in my blood
And worries on my mouth