1. Do you turn away from Layla or do you visit her?
And Layla's fate is not altered after her companion died

2. So if the dust covers him, perhaps
She will take a draught of grief from me that will not confuse her

3. Oh, blame the one who was stingy with himself
When the cooking pot appeared at night, boiling

4. Oh, perhaps if poverty befell Luqman
Her master sat cross-legged between the millstones

5. Opposite the permanent encampments of wandering Dhabyan
Whose pastures cannot be counted for months

6. In a barren, waterless desert whose gardens
Are restored to it, in the garb of one who excites them

7. When they alight in Khuza'ah, harbouring
An evil intention towards whoever visits them

8. Thus many a springtime they grazed
With bellowing camels, led by their masculine leaders

9. Flowing down before the star, ahead of
The bucket and pulleys, running its torrent

10. And a convoy we followed, and a convoy and she-camel
We left thirsty, her guide unable to give her water

11. We left her to the wolf, gnawing her eye
By day in the empty wilderness, its lightning flashes

12. And when we reached the limit of their glory
And its lineage was made clear

13. Every free, noble lady among them
Stripped herself for unkemptness or for the vow of pilgrim sanctity

14. She walked on, with no brains left in her head,
Her ancestry and her blindness guiding her