1. Let us fulfill the duty to the most thirsty one
With the provision of tears, the spring of roses

2. For in a place like this a lover cools down
His burning with the plain of tears in the chilling place

3. We stopped at Al-Amriyah quarter and took a stand
Where the freeman with generosity is like a slave

4. Drunk, bleary-eyed, so it was as if
A lost guide led us astray from the intention

5. And in the neighborhood there were others, almost
Their souls were distinctive from rage at us and from hatred

6. That is only jealousy of our staying
At Layla's abode, the honored place of delegations

7. And when we knew her fragrance, passion purified
The repugnance of her hostility from its face

8. So we saw only Arabic faces
Rendered ineloquent in Arabic from intensity of passion

9. And how many livers seared, enduring what is in them
And cheeks' page on which tears have many a bruise

10. And how many plump cheeks for humming, not devoid
We pressed the kiss, a necklace upon necklaces

11. And she did not leave Waraqa to weep alone
A suitor saying, I alone am concerned with her

12. And we died for her the length of life, and it appeared
In her era, and the pattern in pattern and era

13. So whoever sees any loss from his demise, is not of
Loss, may God protect you O Saʿd from loss

14. And whoever sees distance from her kills, so what
I see is that killing nearness is better than distance

15. Thus remains the one whose remaining is for his face
Everlasting, and the one whose remaining is to a limit perishes