1. Oh fate, how deceitful you are,
And oh heart, how patient you are.

2. My Laila, how long the night is,
And oh my eyes, how short you are.

3. My beloved sleeps while I stay awake,
Not knowing that the night keeps me up.

4. Oh you who blame me, by God if you don't help me,
I will stain his fair neck.

5. Oh watchman of his love, you are a talebearer,
I wonder, to whom will you tell on me?

6. I hung him like a branch, so that when he sways,
The branches of the willow sway with him in battle.

7. My nightingales become excited over him,
And from his eyelids he casts me into misfortune.

8. You have tempted my eyes, oh human,
Oh human, how ungrateful you are!