1. When the fever's brightness shone,
Or when its aroma was sensed, shed restraint!

2. And say to the one who smelled it, "I
Sensed when I saw a fire."

3. When it appeared in the prayer niche of the worshipper,
I knew the dawn was glittering.

4. And the one who brought darkness in the gloom,
I made his night into day.

5. And his sun shone with the peaks
Of perfection from his essence, proudly.

6. He sways from the intoxication of what he sees
From the subtlety of a leg set up over him.

7. It quenched him from a pure drink of intimacy
A draft that embitters the brackish.

8. Its intoxication made him moan and call out,
"Oh friend! Do not leave the elders!"

9. And be debauched as you see me,
Choice did not leave me to drink it.

10. By it the time was purified when it revolved
Around the one who built the wall.

11. Oh wonder! Layla complains to Maqis
Who laments the one whose union is denial.

12. When she appeared without him, he was named
Her madman, unashamed of what he saw.

13. I did not distance her night from him, but
She lowered her veil over her face.