Ibn Abī al-Hadīd al-Baghdādī was also among the distinguished Shiite Muʿtazilites who engaged in philosophy. He composed poems on this subject, such as:

Before You, O enigma of thought,
I stand bewildered, my lifetime spent.
Minds have journeyed in search of You,
Yet gained only the journey’s pain.
May Allah curse those who claimed
That You are known through rational inquiry.
They lied: what they described
Lies beyond human power.

Yet he also recited:

By Your right, were You to cast me into the Fire,
I would tell those within it:
‘I was among those who loved Him.
I spent my life studying many sciences,
Seeking only His pleasure and nearness to Him.’
Did you not say: ‘Whoever strives for us
Will have an abode, and his drink will be sweet’?
Was Ibn al-Khatīb’s doubt not refuted,
Along with his deviation and distortion of religion,
When his affair had grown so grave?
The sign of a passionate lover’s devotion is that sorrow tastes sweet
When the one he loves pours it upon him.