1. He saw a flash upon the dunes, so yearned
What brought the lightning seeking the depths?

2. Why this flash while my heart pounds?
It has tasted in the thicket what it tasted

3. A love-sickness that has no relief
It wearied of complaining and grew weary of vigilance

4. For Layla's people knots in the heart tied
Increasing where desires are fulfilled

5. You came to see me with a restless heart
And farewell was rushed and draining

6. From the tears of chaste pearls flowing
It throws hearts and pours copiously

7. It takes the night's place with dawn
Alive when turmoil rises high

8. They returned the spears and stabbed with the eyes
I love them despite the malice and boycott

9. Love of the resentful increases after estrangement
Indeed hearts' affection is sustenance

10. Who is just among the jaded tasters?
My heart and eyes from ardour and insomnia

11. In a sea with no ebb and burning
It resents even fanciful caprice

12. God struck with vile adversity
Every raven blames the camin.

13. O camel, he who leads you brought you
What's the purpose when my heart has yearned?

14. Does the prisoner need anything but freedom?
You distracted me from the night of intimacy and embrace

15. The rousing of passion and grazing of meadows
Go to the roses' banquet, time to rejoice

16. Bearing aspirations unlike bearing burdens
Where you walk to sublime summits

17. The light of flirtation and pause ofHints
From a group who spent the night as lovers

18. To glory and dew through aspirations
Whenever the night of Sebastian darkened

19. The tails of meteors and stars of horizons
Faces white like gazelles and necks

20. More obedient than their circlets and halters
Equal among them, outrider and pursuer

21. Whoever among them led, glory followed
Stop! Whither does the ascent lead, O walker?

22. The ignorant went astray, the excellent stayed the course
Never did they catch the dust of release

23. Except fragments to a viewer or patches
They turned away from you contemptuously

24. Too late! The lame missed the moment
An arrow from God of far-reaching wounds

25. It gave the people's debts the trait of precedence
The quest for glory which the laggard evaded

26. You asked for it insistently and without wavering
Scabby one no-one will marry when divorced

27. She has naught but a despicable litter
That tears her skin like straw from a stalk

28. Blows and stabs that rip
Far, of distant places, profound depths

29. It reminds us of incessant piercing stabs
The day of El Zuweyr and El Tahlak

30. Skulls of the Arabs bleached
You warned them but the lion of valiance leapt

31. Bend from the fray the piercer of shields
Continuous upon the enemy's skull showers

32. Beware of the glance, hoping for freedom
Clouds that portend evil after irrigation

33. For us is their life and slick new waters
For the enemy their rumbling and lightning

34. Each day God the Majestic creates
He notches for the bow of glory new arrows

35. Your absence after freedom saddened me
Quenched my thirst though choking constricted

36. So delight in a new day of reunion I yearn
And meet with the best that meets the converser

37. You were not protected so for the enemy, no truce
A covenant with days the eternal pact

38. That your branch not be seen, its leaves withered
It languished of fruit after being cut off

39. How trivial is the ephemeral with you eternal!