Among his other verses are the following:
The bearer of the Torah, Moses, stepped forth,
and into ruin he cast whoever forged it.
His own men declared, “A revelation has come to him,”
while the onlookers said, “Rather, he has invented it.”
Nor is my pilgrimage to a stone-built House
but goblets of wine quaffed upon its heights. (1)
When a man of forbearance returns to his senses,
he treats every doctrine lightly and despises it.
He also said:
Islam has babbled, (2) the Christians have found no guidance, (3)
the Jews have gone astray, and the Magians are misled.
The people of the earth are two alone:
one rational but without religion,
and another religious yet without reason. (4)
He likewise said:
Do not imagine the words of the messengers to be true;
rather, they are a forged lie they have inscribed.
People were living in broad contentment,
then they came with impossibilities and spoiled it.
In rebuttal I composed:
Do not suppose the speech of the messengers to be false; (5)
rather, it is a truth that they conveyed.
People were sunk in grievous ignorance,
so they came with clarity and dispelled it. (6)
He further said:
Indeed, the revealed laws have sown rancor among us
and have left us with manifold kinds of enmity.
Were the women of Byzantium ever made licit, without payment,
to the Arabs except by the rulings of prophethood? (7)
[Among his lines as well:
Nor is my praise for Adam or his sons;
I testify that every one of them is base.]
Another of his verses runs: