أسروا إلى ليلى سراهم فما انجلى

أسروا إلى ليلى سراهم فما انجلى

وبات كطرفي نجمه وهو حيران

وبات كطرفي نجمه وهو حيران

They confided their night journey to Layla, yet the darkness did not lift.

They confided their secret to Layla, but it was not made clear,

And its star spent the night bewildered, like my eye.

And spent the night like the points of his star, perplexed,

كلانا غريق في المدامع والدجى

كلانا غريق في المدامع والدجى

كأن دموع العين والليل طوفان

كأن دموع العين والليل طوفان

Both of us are drowned in tears and darkness,

Both of us drowning in tears and darkness,

As though the eye’s tears and the night were a deluge.

As if the tears of the eye and the night are a flood.