[1][2][3] The poem, considered the pinnacle of Fuzuli's creation, consists of 3096 bayts and was dedicated to Üveys Pasha, the Ottoman ruler of Baghdad.

[5] Fuzuli created this poem, closely related to the Azerbaijani oral-poetic creation,[4] continuing and updating the traditions of his predecessors.

The heroes of the poem, the poet Majnun (Qays), seeks the meaning and happiness of his life in romantic love.

Despite the fact that at the end of the poem the mystical motives are intensified, Fuzuli showed the true human love.

[4] The Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences keeps 12 lists of manuscripts of the "Leyli and Majnun" poem.

In the ruba'i, Fuzuli calls God the source of love (eşq), the strength of which is likened to chains (zəncir).

At school, the boy fell in love (məhəbbət) with the beautiful (gözəl) Leyli, who fascinated him with her eyes, eyebrows and hair, as well as with her red lips as the rose.

Fuzuli's Qays also finds her attractive (şirin) and compares her to a cypress, her eyes and eyebrows to a daffodil flower, and her breath to the roses scent.

Qays dwells in grief (dərd), cursing his fate (fələk), a reason for those around him to begin calling him Majnun (possessed).

The detachment of the Rumian Turk[10] Novfal attacks Leyli's tribe, but Majnun suffers from the death of his beloved's relatives and does not want victory at any cost.

Leyli, riding a camel, goes in search of Majnun, but he does not seek to renew the relationship with her, since he has reached the "perfect state" (vücudi-kamil).