1. I recite from the era of Layla though it no longer exists
And I seek it on loan though it will not be returned

2. Content with Layla as she was of manners
Curly-haired and soft, abundantly gentle and docile

3. Of the precious ladies, noble genealogies and bashful
In the elite of the house, she settled, the elite of the tents

4. Her lover had triumphed in every battle
Cut short from the eloquence of the delicate tied up

5. She moves with no humiliation among her family
Between the lofty impenetrable tents

6. How many a night has shown me its interior as the moon
And their white faces among its black verses

7. I reckoned every slander about her except spite
As a bough of acacia gum tied up with resin

8. Her upright stance inclines not to the wind
But proofs of honor are my trysts

9. The clusters hung over the wine and their lips disagreed
Over the water of the clusters

10. And they tossed looks my way, hunting
But they hunted nothing but the prey itself

11. O night, if it were an illness that killed you
I would have cured it - an unintentional illness

12. Despair is more peaceful for me and patience more gentle
Than your night's sleep from my worries and turning over

13. Neither the water of the Tigris mixed with your betrayal
Though cooling by my fever if filtered

14. Nor the clouds of your land that blew to refresh me
Keeping a promise to you with expected gifts

15. It suffices me, I was indulgent in my morals yet I succeeded
Among people only in hostile morals

16. And a gentle companion for my days and their severity
Distinguishing for him between my drawing near and distance

17. The son of Ta'abbata Sharran walks in my shadow of hope
And in tribulations he takes off running like a wolf

18. Of spacious house, blazing fire, he deludes me
The fertility of villages between scattered and heaped

19. The songs desire to belie their reputation
And do not quake before the substitutions of songs

20. Engulfed by an overwhelming delusion, tempted by what
He saw and I am turned away, turned away forcefully

21. He promises plenty with his hands but delays it
And delay without hardship is the bane of generosity

22. The men offer themselves even if they are stingy and generous
A man who finds every existent thing insignificant

23. He counts money only what benefits him
The praise of a judge or a celebrated mention

24. How the flattery has tried assets and tried them
Pouring water and they were heated from frozen rocks

25. Unblemished, his faithful ally not accusing
A day, nor his money protecting a worshipped one

26. Who asks about the preceding generous ones who passed away
And left mention as inheritance and eternity

27. This is Al-Husayn - take an eyeful and leave an account
Of the reports about them and the chains of narration

28. Of the inhabitants of the earth before water, since early times
And its builders, who bowed to its construction

29. How many carrying superiority, their litters
Loosen from the shoulder by a crown laden

30. They did not leave the mountains and seas of the world
Original ones, towering and extended

31. And they beautified in dew the morals of their forbearance
Dew in restraint is like water in aloeswood

32. O Family of ‘Abd al-Rahim, I chose your companionship
My refinement in my selections and compositions

33. I love you and you love me, and you have
No grace over a devoted lover with no clouds

34. There is kinship between us through a noble ancestor who
Clarified for me and you the purities of noble births

35. My praise still reciprocates you on my behalf
When poetry is sung into your ears

36. By every beautiful woman, if I wooed her, she would come out
To the suitors with the appearance of a fawn

37. From the weaving of my thoughts it deflects blame from you
Deflecting the arrows, cultivated from David's weavings

38. The fertile land of hopes did not grow for me through you
Fertility, and time never again returned the feast

39. And the extended eulogies are never loosened
The morning of sacrifice, neither by sacrifice nor generosity