1. Tell me the story of those who loved
Before us, you are the best of people in assumption

2. Rest your beautiful head on my chest
And listen, I will let you hear what does not perish

3. The first of lovers, O night, was Qais
There is no meaning in love before Qais

4. His madness, O night, was for Layla, and when
She married another, he became lovesick and mad

5. The most loving of lovers is he who loved Layla
Like we are now, O night

6. And Jameel bin Ma'amar, I wish
you would see how highly he valued loyalty

7. His love made him more chaste and noble
Whenever a man blamed or mocked him

8. If you knew how sincerely his poetry smells
You would say, that is us

9. The most generous of lovers in eye and heart
The most enchanting of poets in composition and meaning

10. And of love there was Urwa bin Hizam
Who found his share in death and was content

11. He died in Afra, then Afra died for him
The two lovers got what they wished

12. It is a legend in poetry, they said
But it is the highest truth of love, we say

13. And if hearts did not perish in love
Beauty would not bloom, nor sing

14. O night, God's palm did not send down a soul like your spirit
Nor beauty like your beauty

15. Is there on earth, for the heavens, care that can numb my eyes like yours?
You were like women, but when

16. You came to my heart, you appeared as poetry and melody
And planted stars of hopes in me

17. What treasure do I love more than them, and makes me richer?
We, O night, are the happiest people, so we

18. Forgive them everything they say about us