عَرَفتُ مِن أُمِّ دَفرٍ شيمَةً عَجَباً

دَلَّت عَلى اللُؤمِ وَهيَ العُنفُ بِالخَدَمِ

I discovered in Umm Dafr—“Mother of Stench”—a wondrous trait:

it revealed her baseness and her violence toward servants.

وَمَن يُهنِها تَصُنهُ عَن مَكارِهِها

بَعضَ الصِيانَةِ فَاِرفُضها بِلا نَدَمِ

Whoever treats her with contempt, she shields from her evils

with a measure of protection; so cast her off without regret.

وَما لِنَفسي خَلاصٌ مِن نَوائِبِها

وَلا لِغَيرِي إِلّا الكَونُ في العَدَمِ

My soul has no deliverance from her calamities,

nor does anyone else, except by being in nonbeing.