يا لحى اللّهُ ليلةً قرصَتني

يا لحى اللّهُ ليلةً قرصَتني

في دياجيرِها البراغيثُ قَرصا

في دياجيرِها البراغيثُ قَرصا

Ah, may God curse a night when I was bitten

O how Allah brought me a night of torment

hard by fleas in its pitch-black darkness.

With its mosquitoes that bit and stung

شَربتْ بَقُّها دمي فتغنّت

شَربتْ بَقُّها دمي فتغنّت

وبراغيشُها تواجَدْنَ رَقْصا

وبراغيشُها تواجَدْنَ رَقْصا

Its bedbugs drank my blood, then sang,

They drank of my blood and sang happily

and its gnats danced in ecstasy.

While their young ones danced in pleasure

قد تعرَّيتُ مِن ثيابي لكربي

قد تعرَّيتُ مِن ثيابي لكربي

غيرَ أَنِّي لبستُ منهنَّ قُمْصا

غيرَ أَنِّي لبستُ منهنَّ قُمْصا

I had stripped off my clothes in my distress,

I stripped my clothes in agony

yet I put on shirts made of them.

Except for the shirt they made me wear

كلّما ازْدَدْتُ منعهنَّ بحرصٍ

كلّما ازْدَدْتُ منعهنَّ بحرصٍ

عن فراشي شرهن فازددن حرصا

عن فراشي شرهن فازددن حرصا

Whenever I strove more zealously to fend them off

The more I tried to keep them from my bed

and keep their mischief from my bed, they grew more eager.

The more eager they grew in their greed

مِن براغيثَ خِلْتُها طافراتٍ

مِن براغيثَ خِلْتُها طافراتٍ

طائراتٍ جَناحُها قد حُصّا

طائراتٍ جَناحُها قد حُصّا

Among them were fleas I took for leaping,

Of mosquitoes I was left with swarms

flying creatures whose wings had been clipped.

Swarms with wings all numbered

عرَضَتْ جيشَها الفريقانِ حَوْلي

عرَضَتْ جيشَها الفريقانِ حَوْلي

وهي أَوفَى من أَنْ تَعدَّ وتُحصى

وهي أَوفَى من أَنْ تَعدَّ وتُحصى

The two factions paraded their army around me,

They flanked their legions all around me

and their numbers were beyond counting or reckoning.

More loyal than any army counted

لو غزا سنجرٌ بها الغُزَّ يوماً

لو غزا سنجرٌ بها الغُزَّ يوماً

لم يدع منهم على الأرض شَخصا

لم يدع منهم على الأرض شَخصا

Had Sanjar attacked the Ghuzz with them one day,

If Sindjar marched them to battle one day

he would not have left a single one of them on earth.

He'd leave of them on earth not a soul