لاَ تَطْمَعَنَّ فَمَا سَلُوُّ فُؤَادِهِ

لاَ تَطْمَعَنَّ فَمَا سَلُوُّ فُؤَادِهِ

فِي وُسْعِ طَاقَتِهِ وَلاَ اسْتِعْدَادِه

فِي وُسْعِ طَاقَتِهِ وَلاَ اسْتِعْدَادِه

Do not hope, for his heart's forgetting love

Is neither within his power nor within his capacity.

هَيْهَاتَ أَنْ يُصْغِي إِلى غَيْرِ الهَوى

هَيْهَاتَ أَنْ يُصْغِي إِلى غَيْرِ الهَوى

قَلْبُ المُحِبِّ فَإِنْ شَكَكْتَ فَنَادِهِ

قَلْبُ المُحِبِّ فَإِنْ شَكَكْتَ فَنَادِهِ

Far from heeding anything but love

Is the lover's heart; if you doubt, then call to him.

أَعْطَى هَوَى لَيْلَىجَميعَ رُسُومِهِ

أَعْطَى هَوَى لَيْلَىجَميعَ رُسُومِهِ

إِلاَّ مُنَيْزِلَةَ الَّذِي بِفُؤَادِهِ

إِلاَّ مُنَيْزِلَةَ الَّذِي بِفُؤَادِهِ

He gave love for Layla every trace of himself,

Save the little abode of the one within his heart.

لَوْ كُنْتُ أَمْلِكُ وَصْلَهُ عَانَقْتُهُ

لَوْ كُنْتُ أَمْلِكُ وَصْلَهُ عَانَقْتُهُ

حَتَّى أَرَى التَّوْحِيدَ فِي تَعْدَادِهِ

حَتَّى أَرَى التَّوْحِيدَ فِي تَعْدَادِهِ

If union with him were in my power, I would embrace him,

Until I saw oneness in his multiplicity.

لَكِنَّنِي مَا رمْتُ أَشْهَدُ حُسْنَهُ

لَكِنَّنِي مَا رمْتُ أَشْهَدُ حُسْنَهُ

إِلاَّ فَنِيتُ فَغِبْتُ عَنْ إِشْهَادِهِ

إِلاَّ فَنِيتُ فَغِبْتُ عَنْ إِشْهَادِهِ

But never did I seek to behold his beauty

Without being annihilated and losing awareness of the vision he granted.