Many poems describe his wandering in the desert and his affinity with wild animals. Intensity of Emotion:
He fell in love with his cousin, Layla bint Mahdi, from a young age. As was the custom, he composed poetry celebrating her beauty and declaring his love publicly. However, this public declaration offended her family, who refused to marry her to him, leading to a forced marriage with another man. This rejection broke Qays's mind and heart. He abandoned society, wandering the deserts, composing verses of passionate longing, and earning the name "Majnun" (Madman). Themes in Qays’s Poetry qays ibn almulawwah poems pdf link
If you require English translations alongside the original text, look for scholarly papers or poetry anthologies covering the Umayyad period: Many poems describe his wandering in the desert
To demonstrate what you will find inside the PDF, here is a short excerpt translated from the Arabic (rendition by Reynold A. Nicholson, public domain): However, this public declaration offended her family, who
Qays belonged to the Banu Ka'b tribe during the Umayyad era. As a young man, he fell deeply in love with his cousin Layla. In Bedouin tradition, composing public poems about a woman’s beauty was considered a stain on her family's honor. When Qays asked for Layla's hand in marriage, her father strictly refused and wed her to another man from the Banu Thaqif tribe.