So I follow the creed of the one who first laid the foundations—his merit over all people is manifest;
He raised in Mecca a firm, enduring structure whose lamps gleam in the darkness;
A place of return for the multitudes of every tribe, reached by swift, long-striding she-camels (1),
Slender as arrow-shafts on their night journeys, with loose hobbles dangling from their ankles (2).

Among his other verses, as Abū al-Qāsim al-Suhaylī records in al-Rawḍah (3) (in the metre of al-Basīṭ):

I have indeed advised a people and told them:
“I am the warner; let no one deceive you.
Worship none but your Creator; if others summon you, say: ‘Between us and you lies a barrier.’ (4)
Glory be to the Lord of the Throne—a glory that endures for Him; before us, Jūdī and the lifeless rocks proclaimed His praise. (5)
All beneath the sky is subject to Him; none should presume to oppose His dominion.
Nothing we behold retains its brightness; God alone remains while wealth and children perish.
The treasuries of Hurmuz did not avail him for a single day; the people of ʿĀd sought immortality, yet they did not abide.
Nor was Solomon spared, though the winds bore him and jinn and men moved at his command. (6)
Where are the kings whose might once brought envoys from every land to their courts?
A basin awaits there—this is no lie; one day we must all drink from it, just as they have drunk.”

He then said: Thus Abū al-Faraj attributes these lines to Waraqah. He added that some of the verses are also ascribed to Umayyah ibn Abī al-Ṣalt. I say: We have related that the Commander of the Believers, ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb—may Allah be pleased with him—would on occasion cite some of these lines as proof; and Allah knows best.