1. My heart has multiplied in secret love and open passion,
And my patience in passion has increased in intensity,

2. And when my heart tasted the sweetness of the cup,
I wished from Laila, from afar, a glance,

3. To extinguish an ember between my chest and ribs.
My hopes in love for Laila flowed as they flowed,

4. And Laila hid from my eyes in the land,
I asked perhaps I would meet the apparition that flowed,

5. So the women of the tribe said you hope to see
Laila with your eye, she died of the rising of the stars.

6. The women of the tribe eulogized me in attaining her nearness,
And said: "Be patient, she who awakened did not come from those who slumber,"

7. And there she is, from you she hides beauty and radiance,
And how can you see Laila with an eye that sees through it

8. Other than her and has not purified it with tears?
She is the secret, the secret of the unseen in you hides,

9. And your mind has gone astray so that it wandered,
And never will you meet her, even if you were in the implantations,

10. And be delighted with her in speech after speech has flowed
Of other than her in ruptures of the hearings.

11. Oh my people, how can I quench my thirst from the reservoirs,
And my eye sees the strangers and the eye is in blindness?

12. And my vigilance is nothing but a singer who has sung his chant -
I solely discern you, O Laila, from others,

13. I see you with a heart humble to you, surrendered.