1. None like Layla has been seen among the living,
Ask when I was infatuated with her about everything.

2. The secret of everything is its inner reality,
Thus everything praises her.

3. Whoever witnessed the meaning of her beauty,
Said it is widespread and everything is folded.

4. She is like the sun whose light spreads on the hills,
So whenever gloom returns it disappears.

5. She is like a mirror that shows images,
Things faced it and through it nothing lingered.

6. She is like the eye that has no color,
Yet through it all colors are shown.

7. Guidance through her is like misguidance through her,
She has the argument in unveiling covers.

8. Her tyranny is justice. As for her justice,
It is grace, so take more of it my brother.

9. She is unique in her domain, none other than her,
Thus she is called “nothing but”.

10. A wonder, she keeps away yet has no where,
Then comes close and her connection was not lost.

11. Through her connection we have a group, and through
Her distance we have separation, that is my state.

12. By the ruling of the group, she has no separation,
And by the ruling of separation, there is confusion.

13. Her garb is what she manifested of her garbing,
Thus she has a sign in every existent being.

14. One day she revealed herself to Qais and he recoiled,
Saying, “O people, I loved none but her.”

15. I am Layla and she is Qais, so be amazed,
How the one I sought was me!