1. Enough blaming me, just console me
Doubt has destroyed my certitude

2. And sorrows have ravaged my liver, so
Who will save me from my sorrows?

3. A wasting disease has weakened me, so
Who will help me from my support?

4. Where is she who was created to
Console me but ended up tormenting me?

5. O mother, sorrow has overcome you
Enough blaming me, just console me

6. O God, O mother, be gentle with me
Do not rebuke me, do not desert me

7. You have burdened my soul with reproach
So hold back or leave me be

8. I am a poet, I am miserable
I am confused, so excuse me

9. Because of my yearning, I am in hell
Oh the torment of yearning!

10. I wander lost in the wilderness
The specter of misery accompanies me

11. The world has become too narrow for me
Let me lament the past, leave me be

12. Though I am a prisoner in my own land
So listen to the prisoner's complaint

13. With my emancipated body, jaundiced complexion
Wrinkled and thin like a branch

14. My country! How bitter is life in it
For the free and honest man

15. Yet most delightful in its expanses
Is my life like a cup of poison

16. You were once paradise for the foreigner
And a garden for the vile traitor

17. My craving for the free ones among you
Who are in the depths of prisons

18. Their tears shed blood and their livers
Tremble in their eyes

19. The situation of the lion taken captive
While the son of the jackal roams free

20. And the singing nightingale falls
While the raven perches on the branch

21. My country! For you I lost my youth
And all I possessed in my right hand

22. In you I buried my talents
And tribulations drained away my verve

23. And I buried all sorts of memories
In the abyss of my pounding heart

24. And I broke my cup after
My flesh melted in my bowels

25. And I poured it out as poetry, I elegized
The grieving soul with it

26. And I folded it into pages, I stored
In them, though I am no hoarder

27. And I returned empty-handed, folded over
A secret buried deep within

28. You are my homeland, my beloved
Not the love of a common stranger!

29. My country! No one made my suspicions
Worse, O my country, than you did

30. I did not find in them a bosom friend
Oh who will be my companion!

31. Lost hopes and disappointed hearts
Danced on my sorrows and enjoyed my groaning

32. They wronged me unjustly and aggressively
And overburdened me

33. So I recognized them and rejected them
But they did not recognize me

34. And among them is a worthless group
Oh how they straitened me!

35. One of them accused me of perversion
Another of madness

36. And among them is one who accused me
Of sacrilege and moral corruption

37. And the bigots transgressed
And declared me an infidel though I did not renounce faith

38. I am the most chaste soul
Of conscience, honor and virtue

39. God is my witness, I am not
The disgraced and helpless one

40. No speck of a coin - had I
Restored my youth, they would honor me

41. Or sold my conscience for hypocrisy
They would show me respect

42. Or if I went to burn incense in shrines
They would treat me with fairness

43. So I knew my sin - my sacrifice
Is not like the fat ram

44. O people, keep your religion
And leave me to my faith

45. O Laila, dream of my heart
My sweet, my world of arts

46. O lady of sublime honor
The chaste one of solid virtue

47. O wine of the passionate heart
The proof of sound reason

48. I kept my word and did not
Break it - O Laila guard my loyalty

49. Return to your Qais of passion
With a captive heart, sincere love

50. Return to him, share with him
Love with hot tears

51. Return to him, listen
To his murmurs in the stillness of night

52. He who sacrificed the cheap
And precious for your love

53. Laila, come to me, provision me
Before death, bid me farewell

54. Laila, do not hesitate -
Have mercy, do not desert me

55. Laila, come listen
To the whisper of conscience, confide in me

56. Leave off reproach when we meet
Or gentle and tender words

57. Why not - by your blessed life
Longer than that of jasmine

58. By God - my pains and torments
If you do not help me

59. I wander crazed like a madman
Lost in the darkness - bring me out

60. Stumbling, prey to illusions
And fears and suspicions

61. Phantoms surround me
Screaming - by your Lord, save me!

62. Relieve my anguish, bring to life
My lost certitude, guide me

63. Laila - when the time comes to leave
And your Qais is moaning in agony

64. And you see the dreams of youth
And love fallen unconscious in my eyes

65. And I breathe my last breath - imprint
Before parting, on my forehead a kiss

66. And when they carry my funeral
With the daughters of my thoughts, bid me farewell

67. And when I am buried - wet
My grave with tears and remember me