1. Do you desire the moment of bliss, O friend
Upon us from it descend, which bliss O friend?

2. We were exposed to her coquetry until
We sucked cups of love and fervor

3. So bring in her name my cup that I
Pass the cup despite thirst afterward

4. And frequent her cups until you see me
While my eye sees you not, and you are next to me

5. A long time, nothing pleases lovers but it
It has upon it, which pact O friend?

6. I give it to my boon companion, and he is like me
And I fulfill my pact, and he fulfilled my pact

7. Keeper of secrets, I do not divulge it but to myself
When it is with me, I was alone

8. We intended to part, so he soured my sweetness
And troubled by parting, the purity of my love

9. So I saw no one as reckless as my glance
I squeezed tears from it, and it came my roses

10. Nor a goblet in which fire is kindled
Reminding its owners without ember

11. Is there no fortunate one, O Saad, I complain to
My fervent love for him and the excess of my passion

12. I drank old fine wine
Refined, and not harsh

13. So the easiest of it disabled me
From giving to it what's beyond my ability

14. So I ransom you, gathering virtue in it
It always proclaims my praise and laudation

15. And a longing one, I mentioned to him Layla's name
So he became possessed with her, and the mention of love is contagious

16. To me for him is what is hoped for
And good tidings from the Most High for him and with me

17. Because I before, am one who came before
Thereafter, and one who came thereafter

18. And I have in what is said the words of a freeman
And in what isn't said, the silence of a slave