1. أَتهجُرُ لَيلَى لا ولا نِعمَةُ الهَجرِ

    وما لكَ عن لَيلى المَليحَةِ من صَبرِ

    Will you forsake Layla? No—there is no blessing in forsaking her.

    And you have no patience away from lovely Layla.

  2. تُسائِلُ عَن ليلى التي لو لَقِيتُها

    بخلوَةِ ما بينَ البَنِيَّةِ والسِّترِ

    You ask about Layla, whom, if I met

    in seclusion between the Kaaba and the curtain,

  3. لمِلتُ عَلَى لَيلى بِنَفسِيَ مَيلَةً

    وَإِن كانَ أَيّام التَذابحِ والعَشرِ

    I would lean upon Layla with my whole being,

    even if it were the days of sacrificial slaughter and the ten days.

  4. فَهل يَمقتني اللَّه في أن ذكرتُها

    وعللتُ أَصحابي بِها ليلةَ النَّحرِ

    Does God, then, detest me for mentioning her

    and entertaining my companions with talk of her on the night of sacrifice?