1. O how Allah brought me a night of torment
With its mosquitoes that bit and stung

2. They drank of my blood and sang happily
While their young ones danced in pleasure

3. I stripped my clothes in agony
Except for the shirt they made me wear

4. The more I tried to keep them from my bed
The more eager they grew in their greed

5. Of mosquitoes I was left with swarms
Swarms with wings all numbered

6. They flanked their legions all around me
More loyal than any army counted

7. If Sindjar marched them to battle one day
He'd leave of them on earth not a soul