and by nightfall he had become the accomplice of shirk (1) in his hatred for Ahmad, and by morning (2) he was in love with the cross—himself a cross.
He was vile at the core; if you were to test him, you would find issuing from him a rod of hardened hypocrisy (3).
Tomorrow he shall face what he has been striving for, and he will be made to drink festering pus in the Blaze, together with molten bone-fat.

Shaykh Shihab al-Din (4) Abu Shamah (5) commented: the first occurrence means the Christians’ cross; the second means “crucified”; the third denotes “strong or hard” (6); and the fourth refers to the grease that seeps from bones.

When al-Malik al-Nāṣir had these men crucified—on Saturday, the second of Ramadan of that very year, between the two cemeteries of Cairo (7)—he wrote to King Nūr al-Din to inform him of what they had done and of the humiliation and punishment (8) that had been meted out to them.

Al-ʿImād (9) the scribe relates that the letter reached its destination on the very day King Nūr al-Din died, may Allah have mercy on him (10).

Sultan Ṣalāḥ al-Din likewise executed a man from Alexandria (11) named Qudayd al-Qaffāṣ (12). The people had become infatuated with him and were giving him a portion of their earnings—even the women offered him wealth. He was surrounded, sought to escape (13), but the time for flight was past; he was put to death, just as those before him had been—a wretched successor indeed. All praise and gratitude belong to Allah; with Him lies success and protection.

Among the poetry of ʿUmārah that has been found—lamenting al-ʿĀḍid, his rule, and his days—are these lines in the kāmil metre (14):