1. Our wine is the same wine you drink, your noble ones are ours, and ours are yours.
We fell in love with you, and in doing so, fell in love with our own souls.

2. Each young man among us inclines toward you in love.
You are the existence of all, and all are your image.

3. Though each is enslaved by passion for you.
It is the spirit that moved in the nature of its body.

4. It showed fear at times, and at others showed safety.
It perished through that which gave permanence to its passion for it, through it,

5. Rather than perish all, it gave permanence to its passion by perishing.
It was the meaning, and our words belonged to it.

6. So excellent are the words that become its meaning!
Ancient of epoch, though creation is its veil.

7. We came to it in the morning, and it became our essence.
It is the vine, the cluster, the presser

8. To which my lineage is also ascribed, though its seller was cheated.
It is the tones, the cups, and the harp,

9. And the religion of passion, and the one who made the instruments.
It is the people, the cupbearer, and our session

10. To the right of the eastern sanctuary and the beautiful garden.
If you wish, then drink it from the whole, or take

11. From a part a cup whose delicious taste brings ecstasy.
Unless you stand captive to illusion and imagination,

12. Summoning with your intellect happiness or grief.
Obsession turns you at every moment,

13. And has deafened your hearing.
May God water the gardens of purposes and meetings,

14. So that all may see in them beauty.
The lovers did not love anything but its beauty,

15. Though they went astray by its beautiful names.
Layla and Lubna in the wilderness aimed

16. Not at Layla, nor aimed at Lubna.
Had they not known it, and had they not,

17. Found injustice for it, or followed conjecture.
May God give drink to the gardens of purposes and meetings,