Among the poems is this one by the jurist, imam, and scholar Shihab al-Din Abū al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad ibn Faḍl Allāh—may Allah ennoble him and pardon him (1):
Is the moon, then, to be veiled by the midnight darkness, and the star that heralds rain to be restrained until the showers have passed? (2)
Is the shining sun really to be withheld at times from benefiting the earth, so that it must hide away?
Is the course of time to remain one unbroken night forever, with no dawn ever recognised in its hours? (3)
Is the sword now to strike without effect, when the sword in the work of slaying has never shown the least weakness of resolve?
Is the bow to be loosed in the open, yet the arrows fail to pierce, though its span is by no means short? (4)
Is the great surging sea to be left unattended, with no one turning toward it while pearls lie within its shells?
Have the hands of the foe thus dared to toy with Taqī al-Dīn, and has harm been allowed to reach him?
Are shafts of injury being hurled at Ibn Taymiyyah by the people, so that even the fang and the claw are left bleeding? (5)